Grand Rapids Student Success Hub

The Grand Rapids Hub can help you with

• Academic advising
• Academic planning
• Changing your major or minor
• Class registration
• Degree planning

Applying takes less than 15 minutes! Once you've applied (or even before you do!) visit our Grand Rapids Hub to meet with admissions, explore your options, and discover what it means to be a Bulldog.

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The Grand Rapids Hub supports our local community college partnership programs with resources and in-person classes.

• Grand Rapids Community College
• Montcalm Community College
• Muskegon Community College

Our Office of  Scholarships and Financial Aid can keep your degree within reach.

• Consortium agreements
• FAFSA assistance
• Loans
• School code
• Scholarships
• Tuition rates
• Work study

Meet With A financial Advisor

Connect with a trained current student who will provide peer-to-peer support and information.

Explore Peer Coaching

The Writing Center provides students in Grand Rapids with drop-in assistance with their writing projects.

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The Dow Center FLEXlab is an open-access lab that offers 3D scanning, laser engraving and cutting, vinyl cutting, large format inkjet printing, and 3D printing.

The FLEXlab is a powerful resource for prototyping and single-run production. 

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Our Grand Rapids campus has a variety of gallery spaces including the Spark Gallery, Gallery 602, and the Flex Gallery. These galleries have exhibitions featuring KCAD students, faculty and staff, and occasionally, outside artists, designers, and exhibitions.  

Explore Galleries

Explore all of your GR housing options and then join us in our GR Housing Connections group (for admitted students only!)

Order your student ID from Ferris360 and pick it up at the Grand Rapids Hub. You'll be notified via email when it's ready.

ID Card Info

Discover the resources, research support, technology, and more available through the KCAD Library and Ferris Library of Information Technology and Education (FLITE) to help you succeed.

KCAD Library

FLITE Resources

Orientation is your chance to jump in and explore everything you need to know about being a student in Grand Rapids. The GR Hub helps new undergraduate and graduate students get started with the orientation process.

Online orientation is required for ALL students. In-person orientation is only required for first year KCAD students. 

Sign Up for Orientation

Information about parking options in Grand Rapids.

Parking Info

Learn about Wave cards (for KCAD students), DASH shuttles, and the Bulldog Line bus to Big Rapids.

Bus Info

The Spark is our collaborative and publicly-accessible retail space filled with handmade goods from a diversity of local artists and makers. 

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The Grand Rapids Hub can help with emergency funding applications for housing, food, transportation, and more. 

The Stash is a free resource for students for food, personal hygiene products, clothing, art supplies, and school supplies.

Details on The Stash

Earning your degree is the first step. Our CAPs team will help you take the next step toward a rewarding career.

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The Personal Counseling Center offers free, one-on-one counseling to all students. Appointments can be done in-person or virtually. 

How to Schedule

The Disability and Accessibility Resource Center is committed to promoting student access and success. DARC works closely with our students to collaborate and create accommodations that work best for them.

Explore DARC

The Hispanic/Latino Cultural Center (HLCC) strives to become a statewide leader in providing innovative, immersive experiences for all students, staff and the surrounding community by collaborating with partners across West Michigan in the celebration and spirit of building community.

Hispanic/Latino Cultural Center

The LGBTQ+ Resource Center serves to foster a supportive environment that is open, safe, and inclusive for students of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.

LGBTQ+ Center

OMSS promotes the intellectual understanding and appreciation of diversity, inclusion and social justice by creating opportunities for learning and leadership development for our community.

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Get information about all the RSOs on the Grand Rapids campus and learn how to start a new RSO.

Explore Grand Rapids RSOs

Ferris State University is committed to our veterans and their eligible dependents. Veterans Services will help you explore the benefits your have earned through your service.

VETERANS SERVICES