About Eastern Kentucky University

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Eastern Kentucky University (Eastern or EKU) is a public the academy in Richmond, Kentucky. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It maintains branch campuses in Corbin, Hazard, Lancaster, and Manchester and offers higher than 40 online undergraduate and graduate options.

Richmond is a house rule-class city in and the county chair of Madison County, Kentucky, United States. It is named after Richmond, Virginia, and is the home of Eastern Kentucky University. The population was 36,157 in 2019. Richmond is the third-largest city in the Bluegrass region (after Louisville and Lexington) and the state’s sixth-largest city. It is the eighth largest population center in Kentucky, when including metropolitan areas. Richmond serves as the middle for act out and shopping for south-central Kentucky. Richmond is the principal city of the Richmond–Berea Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes everything of Madison and Rockcastle counties.