Launch your career promoting holistic wellness with Calvin University's Health and Physical Education PK-12 Major, a rigorous program that prepares you to instruct and inspire students from preschool through 12th grade. You’ll gain hands-on experience by training in the Human Performance Lab. You'll intern in local schools and might engage in community service, such as leading exercise and nutrition sessions for local youth at the annual HEALTH camp. It's all part of a program that integrates Christian perspective into your curriculum, equipping you to become a confident, ethical leader who promotes lifetime active health and champions the well-being of every student.

This program is part of the School of Education's Pre-K to 12th grade education program. For full details on this program, including a course list and other information, visit the main program page.

Education (Pre-K to 12th Grade) Major

Join one of the most renowned undergraduate philosophy programs in the nation. Calvin's philosophy program is built on a tradition of excellence, grown by expert faculty, and respected across the world.

Wherever your life and career take you, you must be able to search for, articulate, and defend truth, goodnes, and beauty. At Calvin, you'll gain the skills you need to do that. You'll grapple with history’s deepest, most foundational questions and explore what it means to pursue truth and justice in today's world.

Along the way, you'll learn from professors who are leading voices in their field. You'll gain critical thinking and writing skills that you can apply to any discipline, from law to business to health science. You can even broaden your career options by combining your studies in philosophy with another field.

You may not know exactly what career you'll pursue after college, but one thing is certain: it will involve working with people. With a psychology major, you'll gain the skills and insight to help and work with people in any environment.

At Calvin, you'll start by asking big questions about human thinking and behavior. What makes us human? How does studying the brain provide insight into God’s creativity and purpose for us?

To find answers, you’ll learn from top-notch Christian faculty who have deep experience in many different fields. You could do an internship in Grand Rapids' famous medical community, which includes the nation's fifth-largest mental health facility. You could work with autistic children, help rehabilitate prisoners, or serve at a non-profit.

It all adds up to practical experience and knowledge that will prime you for success no matter where you go.

In Calvin’s accounting program, we are committed to your success, and it shows. The job placement rate among our graduates remains strong, with placements at organizations including BDO, EY, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Food Services (GFS), Meijer, and Tekton.

Work with industry leaders in every accounting class. Participate in hands-on projects for global corporations. And join an alumni network at places including Deloitte, Plante Moran, and Steelcase.

This page describes the accounting major and minor. The School of Business also offers a Master of Accounting.

New technologies are challenging organizations and their people to adapt their processes and make better use of more data than has ever been available before. To meet this challenge, Business analysts take a systemic view of an organization to guide its strategy and best serve its stakeholders.

With a major in Business Analytics from Calvin University, you will drive the digital transformation for organizations serving a wide range of markets.

You’ll combine business acumen, people and project management, and organizational change skills with a knowledge of information ecosystems, predictive analytics, and computer science.

You'll graduate ready to ask the right questions, and how to employ the right tools to bring value out of analytics and digital data—all with an ethical perspective that puts technology in the service of humanity.

Peek into a marketing class at Calvin, and you might be surprised. You’ll see undergraduate students learning by doing. You’ll discover industry experts challenging students to rise to the next level.

You might find a group of students collaborating on marketing plans for national food suppliers or a renowned local bank. Or you could watch the creative process unfold as students develop a branding pitch for a local nonprofit. And of course, you’ll find professors who have both business experience and a passion for teaching.

You’re invited into that action. Marketing is fast-paced, creative, important work. And we know just how to prepare you for an exciting career in this field.

At Calvin, your entrepreneurship degree is designed just for you.

Are you drawn to starting a faith-based nonprofit? Or do you want to use your entrepreneurship skills on the corporate level? Maybe you want to pair entrepreneurship with a major in art or computer science. Whatever your path, entrepreneurship offers a set of courses for you.

An entrepreneurship degree from the Calvin School of Business will give you the skills to thrive in the “gig economy.” You’ll learn how to market yourself, handle your own finances, and confidently present solutions to real-world problems.

Entrepreneurship is your shot at making something in the world better. Calvin will give you the skills to do that and much more. Calvin’s Christian perspective will help you apply your faith to everything you do.

If you ask Calvin finance majors why they love studying finance here, here’s what they’ll say: the professors. Faculty in the Calvin School of Business have connections on Wall Street, at Fortune 500 companies, and with local entrepreneurs. They’ll connect you to real, thriving businesses and challenge you to get to work.

Collaborate with inquisitive peers as you dive into a local business’s annual report. Get the internship of your dreams when your prof makes a call on your behalf. Develop your leadership and investing skills in the Knight Investment Management student organization. Be captivated by a Christian vision for business—you’ll find it in every class.

Study the complexities of justice and power while developing analytical and communication skills that you can use in many fields, including government, law, business, and the nonprofit sector.

At Calvin, you'll take advantage of small class sizes, student research positions, internship opportunities, and off-campus programs. Your experiences will equip you to enter the complex world of politics, diplomacy, and civil society.

Understand the world in a whole new way—going beyond partisan, national, and ideological divisions—and resolve to take action as a faithful servant of Christ.