Colleges Lehigh University

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Lehigh University is a private institution that was founded in 1865. It’s set on a 2,355-acre campus located in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, 50 miles north of Philadelphia and 75 miles west of New York City. It is organized into three contiguous campuses on and around South Mountain. Lehigh’s main campus is located on the wooded slope of South Mountain, and half of the campus is preserved as open space. All freshmen are required to live on campus, and sophomores are also required to live on campus in a residence hall or Greek housing. Lehigh students have several lasting traditions. Lehigh’s school colors, brown and white, date back to 1874, and the school newspaper, The Brown and White, has been continuously published since 1894. Along with three other Pennsylvania colleges, Dickinson College, Lafayette College, and Muhlenberg College, Lehigh earned the Campus Sustainability Achievement Award.

Academics

Lehigh has five colleges: the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Education, and the College of Health. The University offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master’s degrees in Arts, Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Education, and Doctor of Philosophy. Lehigh is classified among R2 Doctoral Universities: High Research Activities. The University offers undergraduate enrollment to all its colleges except its College of Education. Students are permitted to take courses or major and minor in subjects outside of their respective college. The student-faculty ratio at Lehigh University is 10:1, and the school has 45% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. Popular majors include Finance, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering.

Special Highlights

LehighSiliconValley. LehighSiliconValley takes you to the San Francisco Bay Area—the hub of entrepreneurship that spawns countless new enterprises with their breakthrough technologies, next-generation software, and trend-setting social media. This highly selective immersive experience is a 3 credit course open to all sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students, and Lehigh alumni from any discipline. The “live case” learning environment focuses on real companies, real players, and their real situations in real time. Students meet with experts, tour spaces, and begin to learn how to apply these lessons within their own entrepreneurial journey.

IDEAS. Jointly administered by the College of Arts and Sciences and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, IDEAS is a four-year honors program that allows students to get a bachelor’s degree with heavy concentrations in both colleges. On the one hand, the program attracts students whose first love is engineering, but who also feel passionate about the arts and sciences. Yet IDEAS is also perfect for those initially drawn to the arts and sciences, but who understand the importance and practicality of a strong technical background gained through engineering.

School Mission & Unique Qualities

Lehigh is a premier residential research university that has long played a groundbreaking role in interdisciplinary education and research. Lehigh prepares students within a rigorous academic environment that blends learning inside and outside the classroom and promotes creativity, innovation, and interaction. Lehigh students can complement their course of study with an entrepreneurial mindset through a variety of innovative programs and opportunities, including an entrepreneurship minor open to students of all majors. Entrepreneurship at Lehigh teaches students how to become successful innovators, seeing problems as opportunities and creating valuable solutions. Academic life at Lehigh extends well beyond the classroom, and students are engaged in educational pursuits in their local community and the world at large. Over 600 international learning opportunities and internships are available.

Student Reviews…

“Lehigh is an amazing school and has provided many opportunities. Professors will sit with you and really help you understand, the administrative staff help complicated processes run smoothly, and overall everyone I encountered made me feel welcome and excited to be there.”