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About The University of Olivet

The University of Olivet is founded on and devoted to student learning, growth and development. The University values a diverse community built on trust, participation and a sense of pride.

100%
Of students receive aid
13:1
Student to faculty ratio
26%
Students who identify as Black, Hispanic or two or more races
100%
Access to faculty inside & outside the classroom

Why Olivet?

From enrollment to graduation, The University of Olivet is committed to your personal, academic and career success. How do we make this happen? Our highly qualified faculty and staff are committed to engaging with you, our students, throughout the learning process. While the learning that happens in the classroom is powerful and important, you also grow as an individual while you live, play and interact with your faculty and peers outside the classroom. In fact, we often form connections with students that last well beyond graduation.

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Leadership

Steven M. Corey, Ph.D., is the 23rd president of The University of Olivet. Dr. Corey joined The University of Olivet in the fall of 2010. Located in southcentral Michigan, The University of Olivet is a private liberal arts institution guided by its values-based motto, Education for Individual and Social Responsibility. Founded as the first higher education institution in Michigan to admit women and persons of color on a co-equal basis with white men, it has become known for successfully preparing a diverse and inclusive student community for not only success in career and graduate school, but also for equipping students to make a positive difference in their local and global communities.

Under Dr. Corey’s leadership and with the unanimous approval of its Board of Trustees, Olivet College became The University of Olivet on August 1, 2023, reflecting its becoming a more comprehensive institution driven by a bold strategic plan, Olivet 2030: Vision for a Prosperous Future.

History & Mission

Throughout its 179-year history, the university community has remained dedicated to the primary objectives Olivet’s founding fathers set out to achieve. The basis of Olivet’s guiding principle was established by the founders when they wrote, “We wish simply to do good to our students, by placing in their hands the means of intellectual, moral and spiritual improvement, and to teach them the divine art and science of doing good to others.”

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320 S. Main Street
Olivet, MI 49076

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