Private College in Kansas City

A liberal arts education encourages well-rounded instruction across the humanities, arts, natural sciences and social sciences. We emphasize critical thinking as a foundational skill to examine problems, engineer solutions and challenge ideas. By teaching you to think critically, you can approach any problem presented to you both in your personal and professional life.

Your major is important as your central area of study, but the goal of our private college in Kansas City is that you explore beyond your major to become a well-rounded student and citizen. Your academics are supplemented by experiential learning in internships, research or study abroad programs. Your skills are versatile. With this focus, your college degree will always be relevant to your life, no matter where you go after William Jewell College.

Classes at William Jewell College are not times for you to listen to a lecture for an hour and leave. With small classes led by engaged instructors, these courses are opportunities to engage in intellectual inquiry, confer with fellow academians and develop your skills through personalized instruction.

You’ll know your classmates by name. You’ll know their major, their class and their interests. You’ll see them throughout campus, in your residence hall and on the field. Your professors will work with you on an individual level to guide you throughout your academic experience. Your classes are places for you to experiment, investigate and flourish.

At Jewell, we cultivate our own unique liberal arts education through our intensively reviewed core curriculum that is centered on three questions: What is truth? How do we know? How should we live?

No matter which of our majors you choose, each student at Jewell follows our core curriculum to hone critical thinking and to acquire a breadth of knowledge across various disciplines. The benefits are self-evident in our statistics: 98% of our students are employed or pursuing higher education six months after their graduation.

Our private college in Kansas City does not serve to prepare you solely for your career; it empowers you to become an innovative citizen who contributes to building a better world, starting with the community around you.