Profoundly Academic

Calvin consistently receives national recognition for academic excellence.

Calvin's well-respected faculty, inquiring student body and innovative core curriculum come together in an environment that links intellectual freedom with a heart for service.

• A variety of college guidebooks rate Calvin highly.
• Calvin has a student/faculty ratio of 11:1.
• 100 percent of Calvin's faculty are committed Christians who actively integrate their faith with learning, teaching, and scholarship.
  • Read Professor Julie Walton's "Statement on Faith, Teaching, and Learning".
• Calvin's research is recognized and rewarded by national and private funding sources:
  • The Van Lunen Center for Executive Management in Christian Schools has been established at Calvin thanks to a $2 million gift from the Richard D. Van Lunen Foundation.
  • The Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning is devoted to the study and promotion of pedagogy, learning and educational leadership from an integrally Christian perpective.
  • The Integrated Science Research Institute, created to help research across traditional academic boundaries, is funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Undergraduates get scholarship and research experiences equivalent to those available at large universities.
  • A wind turbine, funded in part by a state of Michigan grant, became the college's first renewable energy source when it was installed on campus as part of a class project.
  • Many science research projects happen each summer. There are even Ecosystem Preserve stewards that help maintain birding records.
  • The McGregor Summer Research Fellowship Program has sponsored faculty-student research since 1999.
• Calvin's core curriculum is intentionally designed to offer the knowledge, the skills and the virtues students need to be informed and effective agents in all domains of life.