List of Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States
This is a list of higher education Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States:
Current institutions
Affiliations:
- CLC = Church of the Lutheran Confession
- ELCA = Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- ELS = Evangelical Lutheran Synod
- Ind. = Independent Lutheran
- LCMS = Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
- WELS = Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Former institutions
College or university | Location | Years of operation | Affiliation | Notes |
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California Concordia College | Oakland, California | 1906–1973 | LCMS | |
Concordia College Alabama | Selma, Alabama | 1963–2018 | LCMS | Historically Black College |
Concordia College | Fort Wayne, Indiana | 1839–1957 | LCMS | Prepared men for study in the LCMS seminaries |
Concordia College | Conover, North Carolina | 1878–1935 | LCMS | Founded by members of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod |
Concordia Senior College | Fort Wayne, Indiana | 1957–1977 | LCMS | Prepared men for study in the LCMS seminaries |
Concordia University | Portland, Oregon | 1905–2020 | LCMS | |
Dana College | Blair, Nebraska | 1884–2010 | ELCA | Founded by the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Elizabeth College | Charlotte, North Carolina, and Salem, Virginia | 1896–1922 | Ind. | College for women |
Gale College | Galesville, Wisconsin | 1854–1939 | Norwegian Synod | Founded as a non=sectarian school, later run by the Methodists and Presbyterians, taken over by the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1901 |
Golden Valley Lutheran College | Golden Valley, Minnesota | 1919–1985 | Ind. | Opened as Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis |
Illinois State University | Springfield, Illinois | 1847–1868 | Ind. | Opened as Hillsboro College in Hillsboro, Illinois |
Kee Mar College | Hagerstown, Maryland | 1853–1911 | Ind. | College for women |
Marion College | Marion, Virginia | 1873–1967 | Ind. | Junior college for women |
St. John's College | Winfield, Kansas | 1893–1986 | LCMS | |
Trinity Lutheran College | Everett, Washington | 1944–2016 | Ind. | |
Upsala College |
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1893–1995 | ELCA | Founded by the Augustana Synod |
Waldorf College | Forest City, Iowa | 1903– | ELCA | In 2010 the college was sold to a subsidiary of Columbia Southern University and is no longer affiliated with ELCA.[2] |
See also
References
- As of FY 2012. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2012 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY 2011 to FY 2012" (PDF). 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments. National Association of College and University Business Officers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-16. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- Brooks, John (January 13, 2010). "Waldorf College Sold, No Longer Affiliated with ELCA". Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
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