About Lehigh University

Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university circles in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was acknowledged in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Its undergraduate programs have been coeducational before the 1971–72 academic year. As of 2019, the college circles had 5,047 undergraduate students and 1,802 graduate students.

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 College of Arts and Sciences is the largest, with 35% of the university’s students. The university circles offers the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, Master of Engineering, Master of Education, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity”.

Lehigh alumni and faculty include Pulitzer Prize winners, Fulbright Fellows, members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science winners, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern allocation of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, and Scranton. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County, and 19,343 were in Lehigh County.

Bethlehem lies in the center of the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 sq mi (1,890 km2) that is house to greater than 800,000 people. Together afterward Allentown and Easton, the Valley embraces the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area, including Lehigh, Northampton, and Carbon counties within Pennsylvania, and Warren County in the next state of New Jersey. Smaller than Allentown but larger than Easton, Bethlehem is the Lehigh Valley’s second most populous city. In turn, this metropolitan Place comprises Pennsylvania’s third-largest metropolitan area.

There are four general sections of the city: central Bethlehem, the south side, the east side, and the west side. Each of these sections blossomed at different become old in the city’s momentum and each contains areas recognized under the National Register of Historic Places. ZIP codes that use the habitat Bethlehem totaled 116,000 in population in the year 2000. These ZIP codes tote up Bethlehem Township and Hanover Township.

The Norfolk Southern Railway’s Lehigh Line (formerly the main lineage of the Lehigh Valley Railroad), runs through Bethlehem heading east to Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey across the Delaware River. The Norfolk Southern Railway’s Reading Line runs through Bethlehem heading west to Allentown and Reading.