Private nonprofit · College
Kuyper College
Grand Rapids, Michigan · Large suburb
- 69.1%
- Admit rate
- $15,644
- Avg net price
- 50%
- Graduation rate
- $41,066
- Median earnings
Kuyper College is a private nonprofit bachelor's-granting institution in Grand Rapids, Michigan (large suburb setting), enrolling 145 undergraduates. It has a Other Protestant religious affiliation.
About Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. In 1969, Alexander Calder's abstract sculpture, La Grande Vitesse, which translates from French as "the great swiftness" or more loosely as "grand rapids," was installed downtown on Vandenberg Plaza, the redesigned setting of Grand Rapids City Hall. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large suburb
- Highest degree offered
- Bachelor's
- Nearest big city
- 6 miles to Grand Rapids, MI
- To Great Lakes shore
- 32 miles
- Nearest airport
- 10 miles to Gerald R. Ford (GRR) · major hub
How Kuyper College compares
More selective than 65% · #11 most selective of 43 in Michigan
Higher than 40% · #31 of 44 in Michigan
Higher than 12%
Higher than 16% · #42 of 45 in Michigan
Cheaper than 70% · #20 cheapest of 44 in Michigan
Lower than 65%
Lower than 83%
Larger than 10%
Percentiles compare Kuyper College with the nation's 2,196 four-year colleges, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count four-year colleges in Michigan.
Student body
Undergraduates by gender
- Women7652%
- Men6948%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White43%
- Black30%
- Hispanic10%
- Asian4.1%
- Other or multiracial12%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 145
- Student–faculty ratio
- 9 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 43%
- First-generation students
- —
- Students over 25
- 11%
- Median family income
- $63,801
- Avg faculty salary (academic year)
- $49,977
- Endowment
- $6,676,265
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Admissions
- Admission rate
- 69.1%
- Test scores
- Not considered
- SAT range (25th–75th %)
- —
- SAT average
- —
- SAT reading
- —
- SAT math
- —
- ACT composite
- —
Cost
- In-state tuition
- $27,660
- Room & board
- $10,870
- Books & supplies
- $800
- Total cost of attendance
- $38,366
- Average net price
- $15,644
Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.
Outcomes
- Graduated (within 6 years)
- 50%
- Graduated on time (4 years)
- 41%
- First-year retention
- 59%
- Transferred to another college
- 0%
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $33,956
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $41,066
- Median debt at graduation
- $21,389
- Students with federal loans
- 47%
- Paying down their loans (1 year in)
- 64%
About 9% of students who finish here need more than four years — each extra year adds roughly another year of tuition and living costs.
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- Yes
- Dorm capacity
- 145
- Dorm capacity vs undergrads
- 100%
- Application fee
- Free
- Athletics
- NCCAA Division II
- Varsity athletes
- 56 (36 men · 20 women)
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
Varsity sports (3)
Athlete counts per sport, Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25.
What you'll actually pay, by family income
Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.
College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.
Four-year (or more) true cost
Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.
$13,865/year × about 4.3 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.
Is it worth it?
A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.
- Median earnings (10 years)
- $41,066
- Typical debt at graduation
- $21,389
- Debt vs. one year's pay
- 52%
- Out-earn a HS grad
- 47%
Typical debt would take roughly 5.2 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.
A reasonable return: earnings comfortably clear the debt over a few years for most students who finish.
Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.
The pay gap here
Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.
Men out-earn women by $13,539 (39%) a decade out.
Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 82°F
- Winter low
- 17°F
- Annual rain
- 39.6″
- Annual snow
- 74.9″
Average temperature
HighLowAverage precipitation (inches)
NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, E Grand Rapids, MI US station (5.9 mi from campus).
What Kuyper College graduates study — and earn
Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.













