Founded in 1854 as Ashmun Institute, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania was originally intended to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for male youth of African descent. In 1866, the institute was renamed Lincoln University after President Abraham Lincoln and opened its doors to admit women students in 1952. A prominent university since its inception, Lincoln graduated approximately 20 percent of the Black physicians and more than 10 percent of the Black attorneys in the United States during the first one hundred years of its existence.

   Located in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Lincoln is surrounded by rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia, 15 miles northwest of Newark, Delaware, 25 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware, and 55 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland.

   Lincoln's approximately 2,000 students are offered academic programs inundergraduate study in the arts, sciences as well as graduate programsin human services, reading, education, mathematics, and administration. And they live, study, and socialize among eighteen residence halls, a student union building with a dining hall, and many other modern facilities such as Manuel Rivero Hall, which houses an Olympic-size swimming pool and a bowling alley; Harold Grim Hall, the Life Science Building; Ware Center, dedicated to the fine arts; Wright Hall, a learning resource center; John Miller Dickey Hall computer center and humanities complex; and a state-of-the-art Living and Learning center.

   Many Lincoln alumni have gone on to become prominent leaders or celebrities, including Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and Roscoe Lee Browne, while others have headed over 35 colleges and universities and served as United States ambassadors or mission chiefs, federal, state and municipal judges, mayors, and city managers.

ADDRESS: 1570 Baltimore Pike, Lincoln University, PA
PHONE: 610-932-8300
WEBSITE: http://www.lincoln.edu