About Valparaiso University

Valparaiso University (Valpo) is a private academic world in Valparaiso, Indiana. It is a Lutheran academic world with nearly 4,500 students from higher than 50 countries upon a campus of 350 acres (140 ha).

Valpo has five undergraduate colleges and a graduate school. It is home to the second-largest collegiate chapel in the world, the Chapel of the Resurrection.

Originally named Valparaiso Male and Female College, Valparaiso University was founded in 1859 as one of the first coeducation colleges in the United States. Due to reverses brought practically by the Civil War, the hypothetical was annoyed to close in 1871. Two years well along it was revived by educator Henry Baker Brown and named Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute. At the viewpoint of the 20th century, Brown misrepresented the college’s broadcast to Valparaiso College, and soon after it was rechartered as Valparaiso University. Initially founded by Methodists, the Lutheran University Association purchased it in 1925. The Association continues to produce an effect it today.

Valparaiso (/ˌvɑːlpəˈreɪzoʊ/ vahl-pə-RAY-zoh), colloquially Valpo, is a city and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 31,730 at the 2010 census.