Editing Kalamazoo College (section)

==Academics==

=== Admissions ===

{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2020
|admit rate        = 74.3
|admit rate change = 2.7
|yield rate        = 14.9
|yield rate change = -5.9
|test optional     = yes
|SAT Total         = 1150-1360<br />(among 44% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 25-30<br />(among 20% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|ACT change        = 
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="cds20-21">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/CDS_2020-2021-Kalamazoo-College2.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2020-2021|publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
}}

Kalamazoo is considered "more selective" by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{cite web |title = Kalamazoo College |url = https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/kalamazoo-college-2275 |publisher = U.S. News & World Report |access-date = 2022-11-13 |archive-url = |archive-date = |url-status = }}</ref> For the Class of 2024 (enrolled fall 2020), Kalamazoo received 3,456 applications and accepted 2,569 (74.3%). Of those accepted, 384 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 14.9%. Kalamazoo's freshman retention rate is 83%, with 79% going on to graduate within six years.<ref name="cds20-21" />

Of the 44% of enrolled freshmen in 2020 who submitted [[SAT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1150–1360. Of the 20% of the incoming freshman class who submitted [[ACT (test)|ACT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 25 and 30.<ref name="cds20-21" />

Together with [[Michigan State University]], [[Michigan Technological University]], [[Wayne State University]], [[Hillsdale College]], [[Calvin University]], and [[Hope College]], Kalamazoo College is one of the seven college-sponsors of the National Merit Scholarship Program in the state. The college sponsored 2 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 2 first-year students were [[National Merit Scholars]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf|title=National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2019-20 Annual Report|publisher=National Merit Scholarship Corporation|access-date=December 7, 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px"
|+ '''Fall First-Time Freshman Statistics'''
<ref name="cds20-21" />
<ref name="cds19-20">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/CDS_2019-2020-Kalamazoo-College.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2019-2020|publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
<ref name="cds18-19">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/CDS_2018-2019-Kalamazoo-College.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2018-2019|publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
<ref name="cds17-18">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/KCommonDataSet2017-2018.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2017-2018
 |publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
<ref name="cds16-17">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/KCommonDataSet2016-2017.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2016-2017
 |publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
 <ref name="cds15-16">{{cite web |url=https://ir.kzoo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/120/2022/06/KCommonDataSet2015-2016.pdf |title=Kalamazoo College Common Data Set 2015-2016
 |publisher=Kalamazoo College Institutional Research |access-date=2022-11-13}}</ref>
! 
! 2020 !! 2019 !! 2018 !! 2017 !! 2016 !! 2015
|-
! Applicants
| 3,456 || 3,576 || 3,371 || 3,434 || 3,626 || 2,455
|-
! Admits
| 2,569 || 2,716 || 2,454 || 2,520 || 2,381 || 1,759
|-
! Admit rate
| 74.3 || 76.0 || 72.8 || 73.4 || 65.7 || 71.6
|-
! Enrolled
| 384 || 395 || 408 || 449 || 348 || 365
|-
! Yield rate
| 14.9 || 14.5 || 16.6 || 17.8 || 14.6 || 20.8
|-
! ACT composite*<br /><small>(out of 36)</small>
| 25-30<br /><small>(20%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25-31<br /><small>(25%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 24-31<br /><small>(27%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 26-30<br /><small>(42%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 26-30<br /><small>(60%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 26-30<br /><small>(84%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|- 
! SAT composite*<br /><small>(out of 1600)</small>
| 1150-1360<br /><small>(44%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1170-1370<br /><small>(53%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1140-1370<br /><small>(40%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1180-1380<br /><small>(39%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || {{sdash}} || {{sdash}}
|-
| colspan=7 | * middle 50% range<br /> <sup>†</sup> percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit
|}
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===Academic distinctions===
[[File:Capilla Stetson en Kalamazoo College.jpg|thumb|Stetson Chapel]]
[[File:Hoben Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Hoben Hall, seen from Hicks Center]]

Kalamazoo offers 30 majors spread across the fields of Fine Arts, Humanities, Modern and Classical Languages and Literature, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social Sciences.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://ctcl.org/kalamazoo-college/|title=Kalamazoo College – Colleges That Change Lives|website=ctcl.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-16}}</ref> Additionally, the college offers 22 minors, 5 special programs, and 13 concentrations. It is listed in Loren Pope's ''[[Colleges That Change Lives]]''.<ref name="acenet.edu">{{cite web|url=http://www.kzoo.edu/college/?p=ir&s=phd |publisher=Kalamazoo College |title=Ph.D. Productivity}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=America's Best Colleges|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank_3.html|magazine=Forbes|access-date=22 June 2012}}</ref> Its most popular majors, in terms of 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=kalamazoo+college&s=all&id=170532#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Kalamazoo College |access-date=January 21, 2023}}</ref>
::Biology/Biological Sciences (70)
::Business/Commerce (55)
::Chemistry (44)
::Psychology (36)
::Social Sciences (27)
::English Language & Literature (24)

A 2017 study by Higher Education Data Sharing lists Kalamazoo College in the top 2 percent of four-year liberal arts colleges in the United States whose graduates go on to earn a [[Ph.D.]] According to this study, Kalamazoo College is ranked number seventeen among all private liberal arts colleges and — when compared with all academic institutions — it ranks number thirty-three in Ph.D.s per capita.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/#tabs-2|title=nsf.gov - Survey of Earned Doctorates - NCSES - US National Science Foundation (NSF)|website=www.nsf.gov|language=en|access-date=2018-09-16}}</ref> Among all undergraduate institutions, Kalamazoo College was first per capita in 2005 for recruitment of Peace Corps volunteers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/about_usafc/newsroom/announcements_dynamic.asp?ID=1198/ |title=USA Freedom Corps Press Release: Peace Corps Announces Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities |access-date=2018-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216074555/http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/about_usafc/newsroom/announcements_dynamic.asp?ID=1198%2F |archive-date=2009-02-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

96 percent of full-time faculty hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field.<ref name=":0" />

===The K Plan===
Kalamazoo College emphasizes the importance of experiential education. The academic plan — known as the "K plan" — consists of a rigorous liberal arts education supplemented by experience abroad and in the Kalamazoo community.

Students at Kalamazoo College must fulfill specific degree requirements in order to graduate, as well as completion of three Shared Passages Seminars during the first, sophomore, and senior years at Kalamazoo.  First-year seminars focus on developing writing and communication skills, sophomore seminars emphasize international culture and experience in preparation for study abroad, and senior seminars focus on major specific or interdisciplinary topics to cap a student's education experience.  Upon graduation, students must demonstrate a proficiency in a second language at an intermediate level, satisfy a quantitative reasoning requirement, and complete a senior individualized project which may take the form of a thesis, an artistic performance, or any other work-intensive project of a student's choosing.  These experiences are supplemented by one or more terms abroad, service-learning projects during school terms, and internship opportunities during the summer.

===Service-learning===
Kalamazoo College initiated the [[Service learning programs|service-learning program]] in 1997. In 2001, Trustee Ronda Stryker dedicated  to her grandmother the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service learning. This Institute was created to house several service-Learning programs in the school. The current director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute is Alison Geist. In 2008, Kalamazoo College had twenty-three on-going service-learning programs. Several courses in the college incorporate service-learning into their curricula. Programs in service-learning include Community Advocates for Parents and Students, Helping Youth through Personal Empowerment, Academic Mentorship In Giants On-going Success, the Woodward School, Keeping the Doors Open, and Farms to K.

===Study abroad===
About 70% of Kalamazoo College students spend at least one term abroad and the college maintains partnerships with over 45 programs and 22 countries on six continents.<ref name=":0"/> Students at Kalamazoo College typically study abroad during their third (junior) Year, and each academic department designs its requirements in a way that assumes majors will study abroad for all or part of junior year though some students may choose to do a short-term study abroad during their second (sophomore) or fourth (senior) year.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Paus|first1=Eva|last2=Michael|first2=Robinson|date=2008|title=Increasing Study Abroad Participation: The Faculty Makes the Difference|url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ899295|journal=Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad|volume=XVII|pages=33–49|doi=10.36366/frontiers.v17i1.243|doi-access=free}}</ref>

===Center for Career and Professional Development===
In 2009, the Center Career Development merged with the Guilds of Kalamazoo College<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reason.kzoo.edu/ccd/guilds/ |title=Career and Professional Development: What happened to the Kalamazoo College Guilds? |publisher=Kalamazoo College |website=reason.kzoo.edu}}</ref> to create the Center for Career and Professional Development. Opportunities through the CCPD include the Discovery Externship Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reason.kzoo.edu/ccd/programs/externships/|title=Discovery Externship Program|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612100550/http://reason.kzoo.edu/ccd/programs/externships/|archive-date=2010-06-12}}</ref> and the Field Experience Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reason.kzoo.edu/ccd/programs/internships/|title=Field Experience Program|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612085427/http://reason.kzoo.edu/ccd/programs/internships/|archive-date=2010-06-12}}</ref>