Valparaiso University is a private Lutheran university in Valparaiso, Indiana, on a suburban campus of about 350 acres. It opened in 1859 as Valparaiso Male and Female College, one of the first coeducational colleges in the United States, closed in 1871, and reopened in 1873 as the Northern Indiana Normal School. It gained university status in 1906, and the Lutheran University Association took ownership in 1925. Christ College, its honors college, was founded in 1967, and the Chapel of the Resurrection is among the largest college chapels in the country. The university has five undergraduate colleges, including Engineering and Nursing and Health Professions. Its law school closed in 2020 and some programs have been discontinued. Wikipedia reports 2,451 students in fall 2025. Teams are the Beacons, renamed from Crusaders in 2021.
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