Kuyper College was founded in 1939 as Reformed Bible Institute.

RBI had a three-year curriculum that offered a track into foreign and domestic missions.

In 1970, after a five-year redesign of the curriculum and programs, the Michigan Department of Education gave the school the right to confer a four-year Bachelor degree.

As a result, RBI changed its name to Reformed Bible College.

Kuyper has degree programs within a Reformed perspective.