The professional health care sector is expected to grow faster than average for medical and rehabilitation occupations. Many careers in healthcare require a graduate degree, and Calvin University’s Pre-Professional program will provide the critical foundation for your career.

At Calvin you will become a movement expert, well-prepared to continue your graduate education and ultimately to improve patient quality of life.

Take a look at this webpage. Or find a t-shirt, book jacket, poster, or logo. Are your eyes drawn to it? Do the images, colors, and typography work together effectively? How can a simple font choice reinforce—or undermine—a message?

At Calvin, you’ll ask these kinds of questions in a small classroom setting, where your professors know you personally and give you individualized attention. You’ll work alongside classmates where you'll collaborate and learn from each other. You’ll learn why centuries-old typefaces are still relevant. You’ll draw connections between traditional letterpress materials and pixels on a screen.

You’ll do more than just make something look good. You’ll learn to solve design problems in the world, and that will open up a wide range of possibilities.

In this program, you'll understand great art by making it. You'll feel the heat of the kiln in a state-of-the-art ceramics studio. Watch people moved by a photograph you developed in the darkroom. Help organize an annual arts festival (with your own paintings on view).

Those experiences add up to much more than artistic skill. Yes, you’ll master painting, drawing, photography, or ceramics. You’ll get guidance from expert Christian faculty and encouragement from peers. But you'll also learn to think creatively, critique effectively, and communicate thoughtfully to any audience.

When you graduate, you'll have what you need to thrive in a wide range of careers: a wealth of experience, a rigorous education, and a supportive network of friends and fellow artists.

When your textbooks get shipped to you in just two days, you’re benefiting from quick and efficient supply chain management. At Calvin, you’ll gain the problem-solving skills needed to keep people, products, and markets moving efficiently.

Interact with global businesses to learn how they manage their materials, talents, and energy. Discover different ways to get goods into the hands of people who need them. Grapple with the challenges of doing business ethically, sustainably, and faithfully. You’ll do it all under the guidance of faculty who draw on their own vast experience in the business world and who have the knowledge and business relationships to help you succeed.

You’ll earn a degree that's greatly in demand in a post-COVID world, and you’ll be an indispensable member of any team.

Help people be effective stewards of their resources. As a financial planning major, you'll craft financial plans that will lead individuals, non-profits, and businesses to their goals.

Calvin's BS in financial planning is the only CFP® registered faith-based program in Michigan and one of only a handful in the country. Through rigorous courses in financial planning, investments, estate planning, insurance, and more, you’ll learn to build financial plans that are shaped around your client’s unique resources, constraints, and long-term goals. You'll find plenty of internship opportunities in West Michigan's thriving business community, and you could get practical experience working with real clients through Calvin's own Nexus Peer Financial Coaching program. When you graduate, you'll have the skills and experience you need to take the CFP® exam and move toward your career in financial planning.

Whether you go on to create financial plans for a small business or provide personalized guidance to individuals, you'll help people to use their resources to achieve their goals.

Learn invaluable leadership, risk management, and organization skills while gaining outdoor proficiency.

All students interested in developing their abilities to lead, facilitate, program, instruct, and manage risk are encouraged to complete a minor in recreation leadership studies during their time at Calvin University. Students selecting the recreation leadership minor will experience the Calvin campus as a learning lab. Along with on-campus courses, students travel well beyond the traditional classroom setting, exploring the rich and powerful experiential context of national and global field courses, community-based internships, adventure programming, and/or wilderness-based learning contexts. Recreation leadership minors will develop proficiency in a highly transferable leader skill sets; group facilitation, instruction, programming, risk management, development of teams, management of group dynamics, conflict management and resolution, and development of individual self-efficacy.

The recreation leadership minor exists to empower Calvin students to:

• Develop a philosophy of leadership based in virtue ethics and distinct Christian perspectives.
• Understand the transformative impact of good leadership in the lives of individuals and groups.
• Create a servant leadership disposition centered in stewardship, empathy, and individual development.
• Cultivate a signature style of leading that capitalizes on assets and strengths and develops liabilities.
• Be a part of collaborative leadership projects that bring curriculum to life, through real-world projects.
• Build and test leader-craft through leader roles in outcomes-based opportunities and programs.
• Build leadership efficacy; competence and confidence, though complex skill acquisition.

Our data-driven world requires specialists in the economy, and at Calvin, you’ll be well-prepared to succeed in this increasingly important and global field.

You’ll learn from expert faculty and gain hands-on experience with prominent companies. You’ll graduate with expertise that is valued by businesses, non-profits, governments, and more.

Use analytical, creative, and critical-thinking skills to ask tough questions that shape our communities. Surrounded by an excellent academic community, you’ll frame those vital questions through a lens of rigorous and distinctly Christian intellectual inquiry.

In our complex world, important issues often transcend the boundaries of academic disciplines.

The Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program at Calvin University equips socially conscious and intellectually curious students to pursue responses to real-world challenges with a robust complement of philosophical and social science tools and approaches.

The PPE program is an interdisciplinary major that brings philosophical insights to bear on empirical social science research. In this program, you'll learn to employ the methods of social science to measure philosophical claims about foundational concepts such as equality and justice.

Join a challenging, distinguished program that gives you both breadth and depth in computer science.

In intense classes, you’ll explore areas like software engineering, computer architecture, digital security, and 2D and 3D design. You’ll learn from—and do research alongside—professors with industry experience in fields like artificial intelligence and supercomputing.

On top of that, our BCS degree is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. It’s a distinction we share with a small number of significant programs around the country, such as MIT and the University of Michigan.

The result? Calvin BCS students go on to succeed at these and other graduate schools. They work for major technology firms internationally and locally, such as Google, Microsoft, Steelcase, Spectrum Health, and other business enterprises. And so can you.