Hastings College

Once you visit campus, you’ll see why so many students love to call Hastings home. Take a look. See for yourself our beautiful 120-acre campus and all the amenities that make our campus your home away from home.At our core is our people. Hastings faculty are passionate mentors. Our staff are dedicated cheerleaders—of your success here and after graduation. We are a community rooted in student success and built to help you reach your potential.

Hard work. Community. Immediate place and distant horizons.Drawing inspiration from our Great Plains home, our Presbyterian heritage and our Liberal Arts history, Hastings College will graduate creative, curious and caring students equipped through exceptional teaching and deliberate mentoring to thrive as citizens of their local and global communities.

Your life’s exploration begins now. Delve into ideas behind the next technological breakthrough in medicine. Try something bold and brave in an area you couldn’t explore in high school. Unleash your inner creative genius in our brand new Jackson Dinsdale Art Center. With more than 60 majors and 14 pre-professional programs, Hastings opens the door to your life’s journey.

As a Hastings student, your world expands well beyond campus. The community of Hastings thinks of you as one of their own. Many local partners are eager to offer internships to Hastings students. There are many spots available so talk to someone in Career Services to find one that’s the right fit.

Your job is to focus on your interests, courses and all of the many opportunities on campus with clubs and organizations. With a full schedule, you need advice quickly and we’re here to offer up our best recommendations that are personalized for you. You are not a number at Hastings. We get to know you. Advisors, faculty, staff and peer education groups are ready to help you succeed.

Enrich your mind during January Term. Always popular with our students, J-Term provides you with real-world and new experiences. Travel the globe for an intensive study of French culture. Take an immersive course in music in Sound Class right on campus. Discover innovations in a national laboratory. A world of experiences is right at your fingertips during J-Term.

As a Hastings student, you can travel for a semester, a full year or during J-Term all across the globe. Explore Australia, Denmark, France, England, Ireland, Russia or Thailand. Delve into research overseas. Study a culture and place.Serve on missions. With so many appealing study abroad opportunities, you’ll find the right fit for you.

We want you to make your education your own. Explore more about a topic you learned in class. Attend a conference about a subject that interests you. Present a paper at a symposium or research something you’ve always wanted to stud.With funding from the Student Development Fund and the Excelsior Scholar Program and guidance from your advisor, you’ll do just that.

As a first-year student, an advisor will help you explore your interests while targeting what you love. Everything we do at Hastings is personalized because we listen as much as we offer advice. This lets you lead your college journey with your advisors as navigational guides, and a personalized program so you can create your own major.

At Hastings College, you'll have many opportunities to address local, national and global problems that face us all: hunger, homelessness, poverty, educational needs, the environment and so many others.You can work directly with people who need food or help after a disaster. You can work to change social policies so that they provide more for those in need. Our programs offer you many opportunities and challenges through service learning classes and activities.

We combine service to with learning — this means that you can take many classes on campus that will allow you to do hands on work or original research in our communities.Then take what you've learned and discuss it, write about it and learn from the experiences. Research shows that this is one of the best ways to learn. Employers and graduate schools, too, increasingly recognize the importance of your experiences in providing solutions and services to others.

Hastings College has served more than 141,000 hours in the community since 2003. A third of our students serve 20 hours or more a semester.We have innovative programs where you can apply for funding to develop a service project in town or go to India to serve by working with low income women and children. You can go to national conferences and met other college student leaders.

The Honors Program at Hastings College—designed for those who are committed to academic excellence, intellectual curiosity, and civic and global engagement—is a way to stand out and step up.With select honors courses and seminars, you'll appreciate smaller class sizes, additional mentoring and advising from an Honors Program advisor (in addition to your regular major advisor), off-campus activities, priority class registration and an honors designation on your transcript.