Лихайский университет

Lehigh’s main campus is located less than a 100 miles from both Philadelphia and New York City, ,on the wooded slope of South Mountain and half of the campus is preserved as open space. Lehigh encompasses 9.5 km2, including 0.73 km2 of recreational and playing fields and 150 buildings comprising four million square feet of floor space. It is organized into three contiguous campuses on and around South Mountain, including:

• the Asa Packer Campus, built into the northern slope of the mountain, is Lehigh's original and predominant campus;
• the Mountaintop Campus, atop South Mountain, featuring an intramural sports field as well as Iacocca Hall; and
• the Murray H. Goodman Campus, immediately south, where a 16,000-seat stadium and other sports facilities are located. 

Lehigh University blends rigorous academic programs with a vibrant life in and outside the classroom, offering distinctive programs that support, guide, challenge and inspire our students. There are over 150 students clubs plus 43 intramural and club sports and 31 fraternities and sororities.

As a residential research university, Lehigh provides students with an environment where learning and living go hand in hand. LU living spaces create a family-like atmosphere that will immediately help students find a sense of community on campus.

All freshmen are required to live on campus and sophomores are also required to live on campus in a residence hall or Greek housing.

Most residence hall rooms are doubles, with a limited number of singles and triples. All residence hall rooms are equipped with a telephone line, cable and direct Internet access. Lounges, kitchens and study rooms give students ample room to work, relax and enjoy time with fellow students. All Lehigh residence halls are smoke free.

Career & professional development center’s career development model emphasizes strategic career planning and goal setting with students. Among top employers are Amazon, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, L.P., IBM, ExxonMobil and many others world-known companies.

Overall, 96% of the class of 2015 achieved career-related employment, entered graduate school or landed other opportunities within their plan. 

Total undergraduate costs for nine-month academic year, 2016–2017 are about $66,000 for a non-resident living on-campus. This sum includes tuition and fees - about $49,000 per year, books and supplies - $1,500, room and board - $13,000, personal and transportation costs - $2,500.

Founded in 1865 by the businessman and railroad pioneer Asa Packer, Lehigh University is a private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. With almost 7,000 students and more than 2,300 degree programs offered, Lehigh describes itself as an internationally recognized research university with the atmosphere of a small college.

The university is made up of four distinct colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, the college of Education, and the P.C. Rossin college of Engineering and Applied Science. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest college today, home to roughly 40% of the university's students.

Lehigh sits within 2,300 acres of picturesque woodland on what is one of the largest private university campuses in the country.

The university prides itself on having an entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary approach to learning.  

Lehigh has produced Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, Fulbright Fellows, American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences members and National Medal of Science winners. 

Notable alumni include Jesse W. Reno, the inventor of the escalator; and Howard McClintic and Charles Marshall whose construction company helped to build the Golden Gate Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Panama Canal and New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. 

U.S. News & World Report ranked Lehigh the 44th among national universities in its 2017 edition of "Best Colleges". The Economist ranked Lehigh the 7th among national universities in its 2015 ranking of non-vocational U.S. colleges ranked by alumni earnings above expectation.

The university offers a variety of degrees, including 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. 

Other most popular majors by the number of registered students are business/marketing, biology, mechanical engineering, accounting, chemical engineering, computer science, industrial engineering, logistics and supply chain management, psychology.