The Lutheran tradition celebrates the concept of vocation, leading students to prepare for meaningful life experiences, occupations, and service to the world as well as to the church. The formal academic program combines a broad-based liberal arts core curriculum with in-depth study in a wide variety of traditional disciplines and selected professional and pre-professional fields.

In addition to 21 majors and 29 minors, Newberry College offers the Summerland Honors Program, the Pre-Seminary Track, and ROTC, as well as pre-professional programs in Law, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Veterinary Medicine.

Dual-degree programs offer students the opportunity to attend Newberry College for three years and then transfer to Clemson, Duke, MUSC, Charleston School of Law, or Palmetto Baptist Medical Center so that upon completion of those programs, the student will have earned two degrees.

The faculty and staff at Newberry College are genuinely concerned about students. In small classes, students have the opportunity to be challenged by professors, not graduate assistants, and to express their views regarding current issues as well as events that occurred in the past which impact life today. Newberry College recognizes the value of academic freedom, intellectual dialogue, and diversity of viewpoint; and professors maintain office hours for additional conferences and assistance. Students are also provided peer tutors for most academic subject areas in the Academic Skills Center/Writing Center.

Newberry College seeks to recruit and retain a diverse group of qualified staff and faculty members committed to the intellectual, social, physical, and spiritual development of its students. Members of the faculty take seriously their responsibilities to teach and advise students, to encourage creativity and innovative thinking, to maintain scholarly lives, and to provide service to the community.