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 | 2,474 | 984 | $33 million |
| Augustana College | Rock Island, Illinois | 1860 | ELCA | 2,478 | 0 | $115.9 million |
| Augustana University | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | 1860 | ELCA | 1,613 | 224 | $56.3 million |
| Bethany College | Lindsborg, Kansas | 1881 | ELCA | 699 | 0 | |
| Bethany Lutheran College | Mankato, Minnesota | 1927 | ELS | 600 | – | |
| California Lutheran University | Thousand Oaks, California | 1959 | ELCA | 2,810 | 1,316 | $53.1 million |
| Capital University | Bexley, Ohio | 1830 | ELCA | 2,765 | 700 | – |
| Carthage College | Kenosha, Wisconsin | 1847 | ELCA | 2,887 | 91 | – |
| Concordia College | Bronxville, New York | 1881 | LCMS | 958 | 198 | – |
| Concordia College | Moorhead, Minnesota | 1891 | ELCA | 2,162 | 15 | – |
| Concordia University | Ann Arbor, Michigan | 1905 | LCMS | 738 | 161 | – |
| Concordia University | Irvine, California | 1976 | LCMS | 1,939 | 2,566 | – |
| Concordia University Chicago | River Forest, Illinois | 1864 | LCMS | 1,510 | 3,729 | – |
| Concordia University | Saint Paul, Minnesota | 1893 | LCMS | 2,561 | 1,819 | – |
| Concordia University | Seward, Nebraska | 1894 | LCMS | 1,478 | 979 | – |
| Concordia University | Austin, Texas | 1926 | LCMS | 1,711 | 848 | – |
| Concordia University | Mequon, Wisconsin | 1881 | LCMS | 4,337 | 3,931 | – |
| Finlandia University | Hancock, Michigan | 1896 | ELCA | – | – | |
| Gettysburg College | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | 1832 | ELCA | 2,600 | – | |
| Grand View University | Des Moines, Iowa | 1896 | ELCA | 1,761 | 125 | – |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | St. Peter, Minnesota | 1862 | ELCA | 2,450 | – | |
| Immanuel Lutheran College | Eau Claire, Wisconsin | – | CLC | – | – | |
| Lenoir–Rhyne University | Hickory, North Carolina | 1891 | ELCA | 1,710 | 813 | $106 million |
| Luther College | Decorah, Iowa | 1861 | ELCA | 2,337 | – | |
| Martin Luther College | New Ulm, Minnesota | 1865 | WELS | 750 | – | |
| Midland University | Fremont, Nebraska | 1883 | ELCA | 1,400 | – | |
| Muhlenberg College | Allentown, Pennsylvania | 1848 | ELCA | 2,225 | – | |
| Newberry College | Newberry, South Carolina | 1856 | ELCA | 1,250 | – | |
| Pacific Lutheran University | Tacoma, Washington | 1890 | ELCA | 2,800 | 300 | – |
| Roanoke College | Salem, Virginia | 1842 | ELCA | 2,037 | – | |
| St. Olaf College | Northfield, Minnesota | 1874 | ELCA | 3,048 | – | |
| Susquehanna University | Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania | 1858 | ELCA | 2,203 | – | |
| Texas Lutheran University | Seguin, Texas | 1891 | ELCA | 1,400 | – | |
| Thiel College | Greenville, Pennsylvania | 1866 | ELCA | 894 | – | |
| Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, Indiana | 1859 | Ind. | 3,163 | 1,361 | $202 million |
| Wagner College | Staten Island, New York City | 1883 | ELCA | 1,756 | 457 | – |
| Wartburg College | Waverly, Iowa | 1852 | ELCA | 1,600 | – | |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin | 1973 | WELS | 1,188 | – | |
| Wittenberg University | Springfield, Ohio | 1845 | ELCA | 1,838 | 44 | $116 million |