Sterling College is a Christ-centered, four-year college located in Sterling, Kansas, with a mission "to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith."

Sterling College online programs cater to those needs by delivering a highly respected degree that is as demanding and rewarding as our traditional on-campus programs, with the flexibility and convenience of learning at your own pace at your home or workplace. Founded in 1887 (as Cooper College) by the Presbyterian Church, the College embraces an emerging vision to serve God's world through servant-leadership training, the nation's first undergraduate program in Social Entrepreneurship and the development of future leaders through strategic partnerships with Habitat for Humanity International.

The mission of Sterling College is to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith.

Within a decade, to be recognized as the finest Christ-centered, servant leadership development-focused, liberal arts experience in the Great Plains.

In active, vital partnership with church, community and strategic partners, and ever striving for first-class quality in all that it does, the Sterling College community will be guided in all its work by the following intrinsic values:

• Faith: Faithful discernment of and response to God's self-revelation in Christ in Scripture
• Calling: Faithful discovery and pursuit of each person's particular calling in life
• Learning: A love of learning and a dedication to the pursuit of truth
• Integrity: Integrity in scholarship, the arts, athletics, and all other co-curricular activities
• Service: Faithful practice of redemptive servant leadership involving a vision of wholeness in a broken world
• Community: Mutual respect amid diversity as members of the body of Christ

Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools at 30 North LaSalle St., Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60620 800-621-7440. The Kansas State Board of Education.