Engaged Students

A host of distinctive programs that foster growth and involvement

• Located twenty minutes north of the heart of Kansas City, Jewell students experience the best of both worlds—access to internship opportunities and cultural and entertainment venues, paired with the serenity of a peaceful hillside campus. William Jewell’s national and international reputation is based in part on some of the college’s unique programs.

• William Jewell was the first college in the country to acknowledge completion of the college’s thirty-eight-hour liberal arts core—plus three applied learning experiences—as a recognized major in Applied Critical Thought and Inquiry (ACT-In). The ACT-In major allows all students to graduate with double majors and some with triple majors. The ACT-In major validates a student’s learning journey beyond the classroom. Students have the opportunity to connect what they learn with what they do.
• Available to all students after completing the sophomore year, Journey Grants provide the freedom and funding to make the college experience one-of-a-kind. Journey Grants fund life-enhancing, hands-on experiences like self-designed research projects, study-away opportunities, internships, civic initiatives or service projects at home or abroad.
• William Jewell offers a Four-Year Graduation Guarantee, ensuring timely completion of a great liberal arts education and positioning students to transition into graduate school or career choices ahead of most peers.

• Jewell’s internationally recognized Oxbridge Honors Program—supported by the Hall Family Foundation—combines British tutorial methods of instruction with a year of study in Oxford or Cambridge.

• The College’s Nonprofit Leadership major is one of only 15 undergraduate programs nationwide.

The renowned Harriman-Jewell Series is considered the Midwest’s premiere presenting program in the performing arts. Luciano Pavarotti made his international solo recital debut as part of the series, and each year’s schedule includes the best and brightest dance and theater companies, orchestras, ensembles, and recitalists.

• The Pryor Leadership Studies Program includes class work, community service projects, and internships that allow students to enhance their leadership skills in a variety of settings.

• Through the Center for Justice and Sustainability, every Jewell student will have the opportunity to participate in projects focusing on justice and sustainability issues should they choose to do so.  The Center annually hosts a Justice Summit, bringing national and local leaders together with Jewell students to address important issues of justice and sustainability.

Great Teaching

A comprehensive approach to education

• With its rigorous academic culture, the College offers students an outstanding liberal arts education with a focus on cultivating leadership, service, and spiritual growth within a community inspired by rigorous intellectual challenges and Christian ideals. Great teaching is also a hallmark at William Jewell, where the student to teacher ratio is eleven to one and the average class size is sixteen.

• William Jewell College believes that for an individual to be fully prepared to meet the challenges of today’s world, he or she must be capable of placing issues within a larger context rather than isolating them within rigidly defined subject areas. Because of the multidisciplinary philosophy of the school, Jewell’s distinctive core curriculum places contemporary issues against a backdrop of relevant historical, cultural, and ethical ideas. The interdisciplinary curriculum is designed for students to consider the social sciences alongside the laws governing the natural world, to study religion in relation to the social settings from which it developed, and to measure technological advances against the ethical dilemmas they sometimes create.

• As the only program in the United States offering a full curriculum of tutorial-based instruction in conjunction with a year of study in England, the writing-intensive Oxbridge Honors Program extends over all four years of college. The highly personalized approach to education, with many opportunities for personal connections with faculty members, combines the best of the British and American approaches to education. In addition, international programs allow Jewell students to study at some of the great universities worldwide.

Academic Programs

MAJORS
Accounting
Applied Critical Thought & Inquiry (not a primary major)
Art
Biochemistry
Biology
Business Administration
Chemistry
Economics
Elementary Education
English
French
History
International Relations
Mathematics  
Music
Music - Church
Music Education
Music Performance
Music Theory or Composition
Nonprofit Leadership    
Nursing
Organizational Communication
Oxbridge - History
Oxbridge - History of Ideas
Oxbridge - Institutions & Policy
Oxbridge - Literature & Theory
Oxbridge - Music
Oxbridge - Science: Molecular Biology
Philosophy
Physical Education (with Secondary Education)
Physics 
Physics Education (with Secondary Education)
Political Science
Psychology
Recreation and Sport
Religion and Culture
Rhetoric and Political Communication
Secondary Education (not a primary major)
Self-Designed
Spanish  
Speech/Theatre Education (with Secondary Education)
Theatre

MINORS

Arabic Area Studies
Art History
Business
Chemistry
Classical Humanities (Greek or Latin)
Coaching and Performance Enhancement
Communication
Economics
Entrepreneurial Leadership
French
History
Japanese Area Studies
Mathematics
Music
Nonprofit Leadership
Philosophy
Physics
Pre-Medicine
Recreation and Sport
Religious Studies
Spanish
Studio Art
Theatre

Pre-Professional Programs

Dentistry
Engineering
Environmental Management
Forestry
Law
Medicine
Ministry
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Veterinary Medicine

Certification Programs

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
Pryor Leadership Studies
Service Learning

Dual Degree Programs

Engineering
Environmental Management
Forestry
Medicine
Occupational Therapy

Vibrant Community

Campus Life

• More than 80% of students live on campus in one of seven residence halls, one sorority complex, or three fraternity houses; all are wired with high-speed Internet access.
• William Jewell's Fraternity Row is a complex of three distinctive individual houses, all built since 1998. Shumaker Hall Sorority Houses and Greek Commons, which opened in 2009, is a custom-designed facility featuring four distinctive yet connected houses with individual kitchens and chapter rooms linked to a central lobby and commons area.

• William Jewell is home to more than seventy student clubs and organizations. Students are involved in a wide range of activities that include Greek organizations, jazz band, the Young Democrats and Republicans, debate team, Amnesty International, Christian Student Ministries, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), College Union Activities (CUA), Liberty Symphony Orchestra, and the concert choir. Students also participate in a variety of NCAA Division II varsity sports.

Successful Outcomes

Preparation for continued success

• PayScale.com recently listed William Jewell among the top 12 in first-year median income among all liberal arts colleges in the nation for graduate earning potential.
  
  
• Within six months of graduation, nearly 98 percent of Jewell students are accepted into graduate school or employed. Graduate schools welcoming Jewell alumni include Yale, Duke, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and Georgetown.

• William Jewell students have recently received numerous national awards, including Goldwater, Marshall, Truman, Fulbright, and USA Today fellowships and scholarships. The College’s debate team was named the nation’s best in 2007 at the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence, defeating the top-seeded team from the University of California, Berkeley.

• The Career Services office at William Jewell offers support to students and alumni seeking full-time or part-time employment. In addition, emphasis is placed on career guidance and counseling, and staff work with individual students throughout their time at Jewell to explore career issues.