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Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is a private Lutheran university in Parkland, Washington.It was founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants in 1890. [5] [6] PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
College or university Location Year founded Affiliation Undergraduate students Graduate students Endowment [1]; Augsburg University: Minneapolis, Minnesota: 1869: ELCA
The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia University System. Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Church of the Lutheran Brethren , also have their own colleges and universities.
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At the Lutheran Church Pittsburgh Synod convention in Greensburg in 1869, it was decided that Thiel Hall would become a college and serve western Pennsylvania from an initial campus in Philipsburg (now known as Monaca). Four years later, on September 1, 1870, the college received a charter from the government of Pennsylvania and relocated to ...
This is a list of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America colleges and universities: Augsburg University (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois) Augustana University (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas) California Lutheran University (Thousand Oaks, California) Capital University (Bexley, Ohio)
Philadelphia University (1884–2017) - merged with Thomas Jefferson University [2] Pinebrook Junior College (1914–1992) – nondenominational Bible college in Coopersburg (Lehigh County) Saint Fidelis Seminary (1877–1979) – baccalaureate Roman Catholic university in Summit Township (Butler County)
The Lutheran Church sent Harstad to the Pacific Coast in 1889 to start a school. He visited Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma. It was decided that Brookdale, (now Parkland) in Pierce County, Washington, should be the Lutheran education center of the Northwest. Pacific Lutheran University Association was formed on December 11, 1890.