About Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or helpfully K, is a private objector arts assistant professor founded in 1833 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The assistant professor campus is located hastily east of Western Michigan University. The educational was founded by American Baptist ministers, but today it maintains no religious affiliation.

Kalamazoo College is a fanatic of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. It is listed in Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives. In 2012, Forbes rated it 65th of America’s Best Colleges, the highest ranked private speculative in Michigan. It was historically known as a leading producer of Peace Corps volunteers among small liberal arts colleges.

Kalamazoo /ˌkæləməˈzuː/ is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. As of the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 335,340 as of 2015. Kalamazoo is equidistant from the major American cities of Chicago and Detroit, each less than 150 miles (240 kilometers) away.

One of Kalamazoo’s most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an external pedestrian shopping mall. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing allocation of Burdick Street to auto traffic, although two of the mall’s four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic past 1999. Kalamazoo is house to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private broadminded arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college.