Valparaiso University: liberal arts, sciences and professional studies.

Consistently ranked as a top master's level school and "best value" institution in the Midwest by U.S. News & World Report, Valparaiso University (Valpo) is a private, independent Lutheran school offering more than 70 areas of study within five colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Nursing, and Christ College--The Honors College, as well as a school of law and graduate programs, including the MBA. The university is located in Valparaiso--a safe, residential city of 31,000, just one hour southeast of Chicago and two and one-half hours north of Indianapolis.

Valpo's 4,000 students represent most states and more than 40 countries. Sixty-six percent of students live on campus. Extensive leadership, undergraduate and graduate research and internship opportunities are available, as well as 13 study-abroad programs, nearly 100 extracurricular activities, and NCAA Division I Horizon League intercollegiate sports. State-of-the-art campus facilities include a Virtual Nursing Learning Center, VisBox virtual-learning system, theater, nonlinear video editing lab, a campus radio station, 16-inch computer-controlled reflecting telescope, DNA sequencing, weather station with Doppler Radar, and Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources that is equipped with a robotic book-retrieval system. A new, 202,000-square-foot union is currently under construction, scheduled to open during the 2008-2009 academic year.

For more information, call 888/GO-VALPO or visit www.valpo.edu.