About The Lincoln University

Lincoln University (LU) is a state-related public historically black university near Oxford, Pennsylvania. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution back 1972 and was the United States’ first degree-granting HBCU. Its main campus is located upon 422 acres near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The college circles has a second location in University City, Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to nearly 2,000 students. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

While a majority of its students are African Americans, the academic circles has a long history of cooperative students of supplementary races and nationalities. Women have conventional degrees since 1953, and made taking place 66% of undergraduate enrollment in 2019.