# 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
| College or university | Location | Year founded | Affiliation | Undergraduate students | Graduate students | Endowment |
| Augsburg University | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1869 | ELCA | 2512 | 806 | $59 million |
| Augustana College | Rock Island, Illinois | 1860 | ELCA | 2376 | - | $197 million |
| Augustana University | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | 1860 | ELCA | 1818 | 295 | $100 million |
| Bethany College | Lindsborg, Kansas | 1881 | ELCA | 787 | - | $7.62 million |
| Bethany Lutheran College | Mankato, Minnesota | 1927 | ELS | 778 | | $41.6 million |
| California Lutheran University | Thousand Oaks, California | 1959 | ELCA | 2804 | 1223 | $115.4 million |
| Capital University | Bexley, Ohio | 1830 | ELCA | 2283 | 689 | $107.7 million |
| Carthage College | Kenosha, Wisconsin | 1847 | ELCA | 2654 | 109 | $111 million |
| Concordia College | Moorhead, Minnesota | 1891 | ELCA | 2010 | - | $156.6 million |
| Concordia University Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, Michigan | 1962 | LCMS | 908 | 211 | $12.8 million |
| Concordia University | Irvine, California | 1976 | LCMS | 1334 | 2173 | $23.6 million |
| Concordia University Chicago | River Forest, Illinois | 1864 | LCMS | 1559 | 4617 | $24.7 million |
| Concordia University St. Paul | Saint Paul, Minnesota | 1893 | LCMS | 3127 | 2012 | $43.1 million |
| Concordia University Nebraska | Seward, Nebraska | 1894 | LCMS | 2226 | 588 | $54 million |
| Concordia University Texas | Austin, Texas | 1926 | LCMS | 1828 | 690 | $24.7 million |
| Concordia University Wisconsin | Mequon, Wisconsin | 1881 | LCMS | 3846 | 3273 | $90.3 million |
| Gettysburg College | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | 1832 | ELCA | 2531 | - | $320 million |
| Grand View University | Des Moines, Iowa | 1896 | ELCA | 1760 | 115 | $26.2 million |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | St. Peter, Minnesota | 1862 | ELCA | 2217 | - | $205.4 million |
| Immanuel Lutheran College | Eau Claire, Wisconsin | 1959 | CLC | | - | – |
| Lenoir–Rhyne University | Hickory, North Carolina | 1891 | ELCA | 1850 | 903 | $115 million |
| Luther College | Decorah, Iowa | 1861 | ELCA | 1793 | - | $167 million |
| Martin Luther College | New Ulm, Minnesota | 1865 | WELS | 764 | 128 | $15.1 million |
| Midland University | Fremont, Nebraska | 1883 | ELCA | 1572 | 306 | $18.5 million |
| Muhlenberg College | Allentown, Pennsylvania | 1848 | ELCA | 2275 | | $289 million |
| Newberry College | Newberry, South Carolina | 1856 | ELCA | 1265 | - | $18 million |
| Pacific Lutheran University | Tacoma, Washington | 1890 | ELCA | 2543 | 364 | $97.2 million |
| Roanoke College | Salem, Virginia | 1842 | ELCA | 1819 | | $142.3 million |
| St. Olaf College | Northfield, Minnesota | 1874 | ELCA | 3072 | - | $527.2 million |
| Susquehanna University | Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania | 1858 | ELCA | 2300 | - | $171.2 million |
| Texas Lutheran University | Seguin, Texas | 1891 | ELCA | 1445 | | $79.3 million |
| Thiel College | Greenville, Pennsylvania | 1866 | ELCA | 894 | - | $33.6 million |
| Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, Indiana | 1859 | Ind. | 2737 | 399 | $254.2 million |
| Wagner College | Staten Island, New York City | 1883 | ELCA | 1750 | 450 | $83.7 million |
| Wartburg College | Waverly, Iowa | 1852 | ELCA | 1564 | | $76.5 million |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | 1973 | WELS | 1091 | - | $36.6 million |
| Wittenberg University | Springfield, Ohio | 1845 | ELCA | 1445 | 43 | $119 million |

## Former institutions

| College or university | Location | Years of operation | Affiliation | Notes |
| 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 College | Bronxville, New York | 1881–2021 | LCMS | |
| 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 |
| Finlandia University | Hancock, Michigan | 1896–2023 | ELCA | |
| 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 |
| Immanuel Lutheran College | Greensboro, North Carolina | 1903–1961 | Synodical Conference | For the training of black pastors and teachers; founded in Concord, North Carolina |
| 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 | East Orange (main campus) Wantage Township, New Jersey (Wirths Campus) | 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. |