Calvin College
Calvin College was founded in 1876 primarily as a ministerial training college with only seven students and is located in a three hundred and ninety acre campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since then, Calvin College has grown to become a diverse institution offering more than one hundred majors and minors leading to bachelor degrees.
Calvin College’s more than four thousand students are enrolled in diverse programs ranging from biochemical engineering and computer science, to nursing and music. In addition to being accredited by the Commission on Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, several of Calvin College’s academic programs are additionally accredited for their specific programs. Calvin College has a student to faculty ratio of fourteen students is to one.
Averaging a lower tuition rate than most private schools, Calvin College is also highly ranked in Barron’s Best Buys in College Education, as well as The Princeton Review. For Calvin College’s school year from 2009 up to 2010, tuition for a full-time undergraduate is twenty-three thousand, eight hundred and ten dollars. However, ninety-two percent of Calvin College students receive financial aid with 60 percent qualifying for academic scholarships
Calvin College uses extracurricular activity to enhance classroom learning. Calvin College students are encouraged to join over more than one hundred groups and organizations. Those that are provided on the Calvin College campus include the jazz clubs, choir , youth ministry and student senate. Calvin College also offers seventeen Division III competitive sports teams and over fifty intramural teams.
For more information about online learning opportunities such as individual online courses or full degree programs, please contact Calvin College directly.
