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.

Private nonprofitSmall · 145 undergradsLarge suburbAccessible · 69% admitNCCAA Division IICold wintersSnowy

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
To Great Lakes shore
32 miles
Nearest airport
10 miles to Gerald R. Ford (GRR) · major hub

How Kuyper College compares

Selectivity69.1%

More selective than 65% · #11 most selective of 43 in Michigan

Graduation rate50%

Higher than 40% · #31 of 44 in Michigan

First-year retention59%

Higher than 12%

Earnings, 10 years after entry$41,066

Higher than 16% · #42 of 45 in Michigan

Average net price$15,644

Cheaper than 70% · #20 cheapest of 44 in Michigan

Median debt at graduation$21,389

Lower than 65%

Student–faculty ratio9 : 1

Lower than 83%

Undergraduate enrollment145

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

145undergrads
  • 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)

Basketball27
Soccer21
Volleyball8

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.

< $30k
$14,024
$30–48k
$10,765
$48–75k
$13,865
$75–110k
$24,243
$110k+
$21,321

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.

Est. total to a degree
$59,241

$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.

Solid value

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.

Women
$34,835
Men
$48,374

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

HighLow
10°50°90°JFMAMJJASOND

Average precipitation (inches)

0.02.24.4JFMAMJJASOND

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, E Grand Rapids, MI US station (5.9 mi from campus).

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.