Students acquire knowledge and understanding of fine arts, humanities, nature sciences, and social sciences. Students learn to use information technology and make sense of the information they find. Students learn to formulate ideas rigorously and communicate them effectively, in speaking and in writing. Students learn to understand a wide diversity of cultures. Students learn to assess arguments.
Students learn quantitative skills and how to analyze data.
Students learn to work creatively. The academic program provides freedom within a common structure to promote balance and coherence, so students design truly liberal educations which are focused, expansive, and useful in the future. Students develop expertise in at least one discipline or area. Relationships, Community, and Security Fundamental to the Kenyon experience is that students and professors develop personal and long-term relationships. The personal contact between students and faculty that characterizes Kenyon stands as central to the Kenyon undergraduate experience.