About Us
Bethany Lutheran College | www.blc.edu
Bethany Lutheran College is a private, residential, Christian, liberal arts college owned and operated by the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The fifty-acre campus overlooks the Minnesota River Valley in Mankato, Minnesota, a community of approximately fifty thousand people.
| Academics: 19 Majors | Enrollment: 577 students | Residential: 70% |
| Student-to-faculty ratio: 11:1 | Faculty: 71 full-time and adjunct | Athletics: NCAA Division III |
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Facilities50-acre campus |
HistoryIn 1911, Bethany Ladies College opened with forty-four students and four faculty members, and a mission to educate young women. In 1927 the Norwegian Synod, later known as the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), purchased the college. The ELS operated the school as a co-educational high school and junior college until 1969, when the high school department was closed. Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary began in 1946 as a department of the college; in 1975 it became a separate institution.
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