Quality, Value, Success -- Hallmarks of a Valpo Education

For the eighteenth consecutive year, US News & World Report has ranked Valparaiso University as one of the Midwest's top master's-level universities based on quality and value.  This honor reflects the University's commitment to providing excellence in liberal arts and professional studies and to helping students strengthen the intangibles of faith, morals, and ethics.

We believe the overall quality and value of a Valparaiso University education can be measured in the success of its graduates. There are certain commonalities among VU grads: pursuit of advanced degrees at top schools, global interests, rapid promotion, and employment with prestigious companies and organization (94.8% placement rating in 2007).  Our successful young people discover themselves amid Valpo's rigorous academic environment, liberal arts soul, and extensive leadership development opportunities. Valpo graduates are proven, steadfast leaders in career, church, and community, who demonstrate integrity and sensitivity to their diverse neighbors and colleagues. They are the product of a very personal education that connects theory to practice and puts faith at the center of learning.

A sampling of our marks of distinction:

• Phi Beta Kappa academic honor chapter.  Only 10% of all colleges and universities offer this highest academic society.
• 100% placement from the College of Engineering and 98.2% from the College of Nursing (2007).
• Among the elite 25% of undergraduate business programs nationally accredited by AACSB.
• Christ College, a full honors college with 20 faculty members and its own curricula, building, and scholarship opportunities.
• The only Lutheran undergraduate engineering program in North America to have all of its programs (civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical) accredited by ABET.
• Confucius Institute, the first faith-based university to receive this honor from the Chinese government.
• Sen. Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization.  We are one of five universities in the United States to receive this prestigious award in 2008.
• Recent internships at the White House, Phoenix Art Museum, CBS 2 Chicago, Walt Disney Company, Holiday Inn (Hangzhou, China), NASCAR, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Genesis Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, and many more.