Awards and Rankings
Program-Specific
Recognition
Recognized Excellence at Valpo
- Named one of the 2024 Wall Street Journal Best Colleges.
- Ranked among the Best National Universities in the 2024 U.S. News and World Report.
- Ranked in the Top 50 Best Value National Universities (U.S. News 2024).
- Listed in 2023 Forbes America’s Top Colleges for outcomes, ROI, and alumni success.
- Ranked by Washington Monthly (2023) as a Best National University for performance, service, and student support.
Fall 2024 Census
- 2,142 undergraduate students
- 456 graduate students
- 194 full-time faculty
- 84% highest degree in field
- 12:1 student-faculty ratio
- 19 average class size
- 100% of courses are taught by professors, not TAs
- 3.69 average GPA (4.0 scale)
- $46,940 2024–2025 undergraduate tuition and fees
- $13,618 on-campus room/meals
- 98% of undergraduate students receive financial assistance
- $106+ million amount of assistance awarded to undergraduate students annually
- American Music Therapy Association
- The American Chemical Society
- Indiana Department of Education-Office of Educator Licensing & Development
- Indiana State Board of Nursing
- Valparaiso University participates in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements.
Carnegie Elective Classification for Leadership for Public Purpose
Valpo is in a select group of only 25 universities in the United States to earn the Leadership for Public Purpose classification in 2024. The 2024 list of institutions — which is the inaugural class to receive this classification — was announced by the Carnegie Foundation.
Veterans and Transfer Student Support
- Named in Military Times Best for Vets Colleges (2023).
- Offers robust Veteran Student Services: advising, aid, counseling, and more.
- Included in Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Honor Roll with over 100 new transfers this year.
