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
More than $100,000 in stipends was awarded to K students for participation in internships for summer 2022.
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
