• Bucknell University Site

Bucknell rises on a hill overlooking the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, a site chosen by the Philadelphia Baptists who founded the university in 1846. First called the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell was renamed for its benefactor, William Bucknell, a Philadelphian whose generosity bolstered the university during the post-Civil War depression. Like other colleges of that period, we began as a liberal arts school, but before the century was out we were listing engineering and business schools in our curriculum.

Today, our students have their choice of more than 50 majors and 60 minors, including such wide-ranging fields as animal behavior, cell biology, and East Asian studies, along with professional programs in accounting and management, education, engineering, and music. Equally important, professors provide the informed advice students need to make the most of their options. Our students work closely with faculty, and many assist professors with special undergraduate research projects.

Primarily an undergraduate institution, Bucknell enrolls about 3,400 highly selected scholars, who benefit from the special offerings of a college-like university and the personal attention they receive from nearly 300 faculty members committed to teaching.