Lehigh University Description:
Admissions Data (2007):
- Percent of Applicants Admitted: 31.9%
- Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
- SAT Critical Reading: 600 / 640
- SAT Math: 680 / 710
- SAT Writing: - / -
- ACT Composite: - / -
- ACT English: - / -
- ACT Math: - / -
Enrollment (2007):
- Total Enrollment: 6,845 (4,756 undergraduates)
- Gender Breakdown: 58.6% Male / 41.4% Female
- 99.1% Full-time
Costs (2007 - 08):
- Tuition and Fees: $35,610
- Books: $1,000
- Room and Board: $9,340
- Other Expenses: $1,010
- Total Cost: $46,960
Lehigh University Financial Aid (2006 - 07):
- Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 67%
- Percentage of Students Receiving Types of Aid
- Federal Grants: 11%
- State / Local Grants: 7%
- Institutional Grants: 55%
- Loans: 51%
- Average Amount of Aid
- Federal Grants: $3,104
- State / Local Grants: $3,356
- Institutional Grants: $20,984
- Loans: $6,562
Most Popular Majors:
Data Source:
Lehigh University Mission Statement:
To advance learning through the integration of teaching, research, and service to others.
Excellence is the hallmark of a university of distinction. Excellence requires a total quality commitment, which must characterize every activity of Lehigh University.
Lehigh is an independent, coeducational university with programs in the arts and humanities, business, education, engineering, and the natural and social sciences, offering bachelor’s degrees primarily to full-time, residential students and graduate degrees through the doctorate for both full-time and part-time students. Lehigh is small enough to be personal, yet large enough to provide stimulating diversity and to play important national and international roles.
Since Lehigh’s founding in 1865, the faculty has emphasized the integration of the academic disciplines, combining the cultural with the professional, the theoretical with the practical, and the humanistic with the technological in a modern, liberal education that serves as preparation for a useful life. Lehigh is an intellectually unified community of learners, and in this sense Lehigh is an integral university.
Lehigh strives to earn international prominence as a university of special distinction through its integration of teaching, research, and service to society. The integrating element of teaching, research and service is learning, which is the principal mission of all members of the Lehigh community.
