The university encourages students to participate in service work tied to reflective discussions about its place in their lives. In working to bring learning and faith into intimate relationship, Texas Lutheran University is discovering afresh that each can strengthen, clarify and enrich the other. Men and women who live and work in these contexts find their own purposes enlarged and deepened. A compassion born of faith and a competence informed by learning shape the mission of the university in this day. Texas Lutheran University is an undergraduate, private, coeducational university of the liberal arts and sciences affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
All faiths are welcome.
The magazine also recognizes TLU as one of the best values for the money among its peers in the Western U.S., given TLU's outstanding financial aid . Texas Lutheran University was founded in Brenham, Texas in 1891, and the institution moved to Seguin in 1912. More than 30 major buildings are located on the spacious 184-acre Seguin campus. The Blumberg Memorial Library offers an excellent collection and is linked electronically to libraries around the world. Students have free e-mail, Internet and World Wide Web access.