“A Lutheran liberal arts college in the Red River Valley — home of the world-renowned Concordia Choir and one of the most affordable private LACs in the Midwest.”
Concordia College is a private liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) located in Moorhead, Minnesota, directly across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota. Founded in 1891 by a small group of Norwegian Lutheran pastors and laymen recently settled in the Red River Valley, Concordia was envisioned as an institution serving both the faith and intellectual life of Scandinavian immigrant communities on the northern Great Plains. Today the college enrolls approximately 1,864 students across more than 60 majors and 12 pre-professional programs, with a student-faculty ratio of 12:1 that ensures close faculty mentorship throughout the undergraduate years. Concordia is nationally recognized above all for its extraordinary choral tradition: the Concordia Choir, shaped over decades by distinguished conductors including the legendary Paul J. Christiansen, has toured internationally and is regarded as one of the finest college choirs in the world. The music department draws outstanding performers and contributes a uniquely vibrant arts dimension to campus life. Beyond music, Concordia's most popular programs include business, education, communication studies, biology, and nursing, while strong foreign language offerings and a culture of global engagement encourage study abroad participation across more than 140 partner programs worldwide. The Fargo-Moorhead metro area is a thriving regional economy of over 250,000 anchored in healthcare, technology, agriculture, and financial services. At $31,600 in 2025-26 tuition — among the lowest for comparable private liberal arts colleges — and with institutional aid that substantially reduces average net cost, Concordia offers an unusually accessible path to a rigorous, residential, faith-informed liberal arts education.
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Tuition & Fees (All Students)
$31,600
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Business administration, accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, and management with strong regional employer relationships.
Music, visual arts, and theatre. Includes the internationally touring Concordia Choir and a full BA and BM music curriculum.
Biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, and nursing (BSN). Strong pre-medicine advising.
Education, psychology, political science, sociology, communication studies, and social work.
4 years
Home to the internationally touring Concordia Choir. Offers BA and BM degrees across five areas of concentration. NASM-accredited with a strong music therapy track.
4 years
Comprehensive business degree through the Offutt School of Business with pipelines into Fargo-Moorhead's growing technology, healthcare, and finance sectors.
4 years
Strong pre-health advising with high medical school acceptance rates. Access to undergraduate research and clinical observation in the Fargo medical corridor.
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Sticker price (annual, out-of-state): $31,170
Net-cost estimate is US-resident-only — international applicants are typically excluded from need-based aid at most schools and should treat the sticker price as the planning baseline.
