Newberry College is a liberal-arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) located on a historic 90-acre (360,000 m) campus in Newberry, South Carolina. The college has 1,025 students and a 19:1 student-teacher ratio. The school's website says, "Newberry College ensures that students receive individual attention and guidance as part of its values-based curriculum." In 2006-2007, Newberry College celebrated its 150th anniversary of service and educational leadership to the Newberry community, South Carolina, and to the Lutheran Church. Newberry's heritage began in 1828 at the annual meeting of the Lutheran Synod in South Carolina and Adjacent States—nearly 30 years before it was chartered as a college by the State of South Carolina. At that 1828 meeting the Rev. John Bachman, President of the Synod, recommended the establishment of a seminary to train Lutheran ministers. The following year the Synod followed his advice and voted to establish a seminary and classical academy.