The K-Plan

Kalamazoo College's distinctive model of liberal arts education, the K-Plan, includes four components: rigorous examination of the liberal arts and sciences; learning through experience; international engagement; and the senior individualized project. The K-Plan continues to be dramatically effective in equipping enterprising students with the self-reliance, resourcefulness, and global perspective they need in the 21st century.

Your K-Plan will be a highly individualized, highly experiential curriculum that enables you to focus on, and make the very most of, your unique interests and gifts. At "K", within a close caring community, you will be supported in every way to realize your academic and career goals—to reach your full, unique potential.

Among the outcomes of your K-Plan: a lifelong passion for exploring new ideas; career readiness, based on multiple hands-on experiences including internships, externships, "guild" participation, and service learning; intercultural understanding, an awareness of different ways people experience and organize the world and an openness to learn from these; social justice expressed in service to others; and leadership, the ability to envision new possibilities and then inspire and organize people to achieve them.

Your goals and those outcomes can be reached at Kalamazoo College. It's all part of the K-Plan.

What Will Be Your K-Plan?
Your customized K-Plan will be made up of four components.

• The Liberal Arts & Sciences
Ours is a more open curriculum at "K," so you will have extensive flexibility to tailor your studies to your unique passions.

• Learning Through Experience
At "K," you will learn by doing as you prepare for your chosen career through a wide variety of internships, externships, undergraduate research, service-learning, the Guilds, and more.

• International Engagement
For more than 50 years, Kalamazoo College has served as a model among U.S. colleges in international study, research, work, and service. Through our Center for International Programs, "K" students study in nearly 50 programs on six continents.

• Senior Individualized Project
As a culmination of all your learning at "K," you'll explore a subject of your own choosing, resulting in an in-depth, graduate-level research thesis, performance, or creative work.