Located in the vibrant town of Decorah in northeastern Iowa, Luther is an undergraduate liberal arts college affiliated with the Lutheran Church (ELCA).

A Place of Welcome

Luther values the diversity of its students, staff, and faculty, who hail from many faith backgrounds and heritages.

The college strives to make Luther affordable for all students by offering scholarships, need-based aid, work study, and loan programs.

Academic Excellence

Luther offers more than 60 areas of learning. The college’s learning philosophy highlights connections between disciplines. Its thoughtful and rigorous curriculum moves beyond immediate interests toward engagement in the larger world. This approach to education helps Luther earn inclusion in the top tier of national liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News and World Report’s college guide.

Luther is a Phi Beta Kappa institution, a recognition belonging to only 10 percent of colleges and universities, and its graduates have been honored with awards, such as Fulbright, Rhodes, Goldwater, and NCAA Postgraduate scholarships.

The Luther College Rochester Semester is a new program intended to take advantage of the exciting opportunities available a mere sixty-five miles to the north of Decorah.  It will provide a platform for students to engage in high impact, career-related experiential learning.  Drawing on the College’s expansive alumni base in the area (one that includes professionals in all areas of business, industry, the arts, and sciences), students will have unique access to immersive learning opportunities designed to help them discern career paths, acquire concrete, job-related experience, and facilitate career networking.  These immersion internships offer students the opportunity for 15-20+ hours/week of on-site work, with potential to extend the semester into a full time experience during an adjacent J-Term and/or summer if of interest to both student and provider. To complete the 12-14 credit program, Rochester Semester participants will also enroll in two Rochester-based courses taught by Luther College faculty.

Students are provided a variety of clinical experiences throughout the program to allow them to develop their skills in unique ways, encounter health care from diverse settings, and explore the nursing profession in distinctive environments.