Mission: to prepare graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world
Founded in 1833, among the 100 oldest institutions in the country
Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a mid-sized city just 35 miles from Lake Michigan and approximately 140 miles from both Detroit and Chicago
71 percent of K students participate in Center for Career and Professional Development programs and services (career coaching, networking receptions, career workshops, internships, externships and career treks, among others)
70 percent of students participate in a meaningful, immersive international and intercultural experience — often characterized by home stays and an Integrative Cultural Research Project — in 56 programs in 29 countries on six continents
About two-thirds of students participate in community-based courses and student-led co-curricular programs through community engagement and service-learning projects
All students engage in a Senior Integrated Project, an in-depth research or creative project done in the senior year
Kalamazoo College ranks in the top 2 percent among all U.S. colleges and universities surveyed for the percentage of students ultimately earning a doctorate, according to the National Science Foundation.
One of the Colleges That Change Lives, book by Loren Pope, higher education expert and former New York Times education editor, describing a group of 44 dynamic colleges that excel at developing potential, values and initiative, and provide the foundation for success beyond college
