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 14:1.
- 100 percent of Calvin's faculty are committed Christians who actively integrate their faith with learning, teaching, and scholarship.
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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 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.
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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 biology research projects were going on in the summer of 2008.
- 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.
