Augustana University College

This article is about the former academic institution before its merger with the University of Alberta in 2004. For its post-2004 history, see University of Alberta Augustana Faculty. For other institutions with the same name, see Augustana College (disambiguation). For other uses of Augustana, see Augustana (disambiguation).
Augustana University College
Former names
 Camrose Lutheran College, Camrose Lutheran University College
Type Private
Active 1910–2004
Affiliation Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Location
Camrose
,
Alberta
,
Canada

53.0124°N 112.825°W / 53.0124; -112.825
Colours Red and Black    
Nickname The Vikings
Website http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/

Augustana University College was a Lutheran college in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, from 1910 until it merged in 2004 with the University of Alberta, becoming its Augustana Faculty.

Image courtesy of Peel's Prairie Provinces, a digital initiative of the University of Alberta Libraries.http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC003149.html

History

In 1910 Norwegian settlers in the area around Camrose established a school under the name Camrose Lutheran College. It was initially a secondary school, and was operated by a group of Alberta Lutheran congregations, the Alberta Norwegian Lutheran College Association. Augustana began offering university work in the fall of 1959 as an affiliated college of the University of Alberta and added a second year of the university transfer program in 1969. It became Alberta's first private university in 1985 when the first B.A. degrees were granted.

On July 1, 2004, Augustana University College merged with the University of Alberta to become a separate faculty and satellite campus of the university.