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Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo, Michigan Private nonprofit 4-year Small city

Overview

Kalamazoo College is a private nonprofit four-year institution in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Its campus is in a small city. It enrolled 1,166 students in fall 2024.

Kalamazoo College offers bachelor's degrees across 29 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Biology, Business/Commerce, and Psychology, General. It awarded 340 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

85% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 10 to 1.

Mission

The mission of Kalamazoo College is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world.

Mission statement as reported by Kalamazoo College

Key figures

1,166
Students enrolled
85%
First-year retention
340
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
29
Programs and majors
10:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

CampusHybrid

Program levels

Bachelor

Programs and majors offered 29

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2
Business, Management and Marketing 1
Social Sciences 5
Psychology 1
Foreign Languages and Linguistics 3
Visual and Performing Arts 5
English Language and Literature 1
Physical Sciences 2
Computer and Information Sciences 1
Area, Ethnic, Cultural and Gender Studies 2
Philosophy and Religious Studies 2
History 1
Mathematics and Statistics 1
Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies 2

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
85%
First-year retention, part-time students
0%
Student-to-faculty ratio
10:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Bachelor's degrees
340

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
1,166
Undergraduates, fall 2024
1,166
Full-time, fall 2024
99%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
1,342
Full-time, 2024-25
99%
Size category
1,000 to 4,999 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
57%
Men
43%
White
62%
Hispanic or Latino
16%
Black or African American
5%
Asian
3%
Two or more races
5%
International (U.S. nonresident)
5%
Race or ethnicity unknown
3%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Small city
Academic calendar
Quarter
Carnegie classification
Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
Athletic association
NCAA
Athletic conference
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
President
Jorge G. Gonzalez
Services and opportunities
Study abroad, Undergraduate research, Academic and career counseling, Student employment services, Job placement for graduates, Accepts AP credit
For veterans and service members
Yellow Ribbon Program

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