About Moravian College

Moravian College is a private militant arts moot in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The scholarly traces its founding to 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers of the Bohemian Reformation (John Amos Comenius), and claims to be the sixth-oldest intellectual in the United States. The most popular majors are health sciences, business, nursing, sociology, psychology, and biological sciences.

Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern portion 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 middle of the Lehigh Valley, a region of 731 sq mi (1,890 km2) that is home to higher than 800,000 people. Together when 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 adjacent 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 area 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 epoch in the city’s take forward and each contains areas recognized below the National Register of Historic Places. ZIP codes that use the house Bethlehem totaled 116,000 in population in the year 2000. These ZIP codes count Bethlehem Township and Hanover Township.

The Norfolk Southern Railway’s Lehigh Line (formerly the main extraction 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.