Rudolf Steiner College provides a creative educational environment for men and women of diverse ages and backgrounds who seek a deeper understanding of the challenges of modern life and wish to develop new capacities as a basis for their life's work, for social service, and cultural renewal. Founded on the spiritual scientific work of Rudolf Steiner, the College has as its mission to provide programs that:
• Awaken independent thinking and healthy judgment about the deepest issues of human life
• School powers of perception
• Cultivate and enrich artistic faculties
• Strengthen capacities for practical life

The view of the human being as an individual, encompassing body, soul, and spirit is central to the programs of the College, along with an emphasis on the cultivation of the inner life as a source of strength, creativity, and initiative. Programs strive to address the students' quest for the knowledge, insight, and moral imagination needed to bring balance and healing to human beings, communities, and the earth itself.

Rudolf Steiner College offers upper division and graduate level courses. Most students are between the ages of 22 and 45 with a range of 20 to 70. Most have already earned at least one academic degree. The cosmopolitan community is comprised of students and faculty from many different countries. They have explored some of the world through travel, study, work; many are also raising families. They come seeking to make a difference.

Students seek to make a difference in the world by cultivating the imagination, insight, and initiative required to address modern problems. The arts are an integral part of the curriculum and are studied as a basis for sensitivity, to deepen perception, social awareness, and balance of soul.

Using Goethean phenomenological approaches to science in a context of small group dialogue, students are encouraged to explore their own soul processes looking for potent images that can be used as analogs for their own path in life. This is a year of self exploration and community development.

Waldorf education (K-12 curriculum) seeks to cultivate balanced human beings by educating head, heart, and hand in harmonious interplay. People preparing to teach in Waldorf schools study: human development, based on the assumption that a human being is a spiritual being; curriculum appropriate to different age levels; and multiple visual and performing art forms. Waldorf education is the fastest growing independent education movement worldwide. Upon graduation, teacher placement is 100% with most graduates getting multiple job offers.

Biodynamic agriculture recognizes the basic principles at work in nature and how the health of the soil, plants and animals depends on reconnecting nature with the creative forces of the cosmos. Students seek to make a difference through the study and applications of the knowledge gained from the practical methods outlined by Rudolf Steiner.

Those who have successfully completed at least two years of general education courses, may enroll in Rudolf Steiner College programs leading to a B.A. in Anthroposophical Studies or Waldorf Education.