History
Kuyper College was founded in 1939 as Reformed Bible Institute. RBI had a three year curriculum that offered an expedient track into foreign and domestic missions. In 1970, after a five year redesign of the curriculum and programs, the Michigan Department of Education gave the school the right to confer a four-year Bachelor degree. As a result, RBI changed its name to Reformed Bible College. On April 21, 2006, RBC once again changed its name, this time to Kuyper College after Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920). Kuyper was Prime Minister of The Netherlands from 1901 - 1905, and a theologian, considered the father of the Biblical Reformed Worldview. He also played an important role in founding de Vrije Universiteit. Today Kuyper College continues to build on this tradition. Pre-seminary, youth ministry, and cross-cultural missions programs are part of the Bible curriculum. However, so are social work, education, computer sciences, accounting, communication, business and other majors. Because of this emphasis, at Kuyper all students graduate with both a Bible major and a professional area major.
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