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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. – Multiple Lincoln University programs have been placed among the top colleges nationwide in College Factual’s latest report.
According to the report, Lincoln University ranks among the top five percent “most focused” colleges and universities in the United States in the following College Factual categories: digital communications, public administration, social services, and sociology. Lincoln’s human services major is listed among the top fifteen percent.
College Factual base their rankings on various metrics including graduation and retention rates, early and mid-career earnings, and the percentage of fulltime faculty among others. It serves as a tool for prospective students to find an ideal match for them based on their academic goals and interests. In cooperation with USA Today, they publish their rankings annually.
A full listing of methodologies can be found on College Factual’s website.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University (PA) is the first of four Lincoln universities in the world and is the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Lincoln offers a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women more than 35 liberal arts and science-based undergraduate programs and select graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University possesses an international reputation for preparing and producing world-class leaders such as Langston Hughes '29, the noted poet; Thurgood Marshall '30, the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Nnamdi Azikiwe '30, the first president of Nigeria; Kwame Nkrumah '39, the first president of Ghana; Lillian Fishburne '71, the first African American woman promoted to rear admiral in the U.S. Navy; Sheila Oliver ’74, the lieutenant governor of New Jersey; Saara Kuugongelwa '94, the first female prime minister of Namibia; and a myriad of others.