"All of the students I talked to said Lynchburg was a place where you felt you should be involved. More than one of them said the whole attitude of the place had fostered independence and built their self-confidence."
-Colleges That Change Lives

• Lynchburg College was founded in 1903 as a selective, independent, coeducational, residential college, with historical and current relationship to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a denomination which values and celebrates all faith traditions.
• 214-acre campus located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Lynchburg, Virginia; 3 hours southwest of Washington, D.C., and 2 hours west of Richmond, Virginia.

• Lynchburg College joins a group of only 215 colleges/universities in the United States that offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy program. Each class of 52 students will study and research in a new 37,000 square foot facility that rivals any other facility in the US, and includes a high-tech anatomy lab for cadaver dissections, two instructional labs for hands-on practice and research labs for motion analysis and other experiments.
• Our Freshman Year Experience program, LC Connections, recently won an award from the National Academic Advising Association. This program provides each freshman with an upperclass student mentor.
• Lynchburg College is one of only 50 schools nationally recognized by the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation. The mission of the Bonner Leaders program is "to transform the lives of students and members, the life of their campuses, their local communities, and the world through service and leadership" by engaging students in ongoing, meaningful service work in non-profit settings. The Bonner Leaders program is just one of many opportunities which engage students in service and civic responsibility. In addition to the service work through the Bonner program, LC students contribute more than 45,000 annually to a variety of service initiatives.
• Schewel Hall is a 68,000 square foot state-of-the-art academic building, which is visually spectacular! While home to the School of Business & Economics and the School of Communication and the Arts, all students take classes here. Features of Schewel Hall include the following: a mock stock trading floor; specialized teaching-learning and focus group settings for business students; and the Donovan Media Development Center, which includes television and recording studios, desktop publishing and video projection equipment, and broadcast and print journalism facilities. The 250-seat Sydnor Performance Hall is used by students in music and also serves as a stunning site for a variety of special events.
• Claytor Nature Study Center, a 470-acre outdoor science laboratory with a new state-of-the-art research facility, is located 30 minutes from campus for environmental research as well as community partnerships in education. The College has expanded the Claytor Nature Study Center to include a dome observatory that houses the 20-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope, an optical design also used in the Hubble Space Telescope. Students and faculty are now pursuing astronomical research in conjunction with other regional colleges and universities.
• In recent years, the number of applications has doubled, resulting in the largest freshman classes in the history of the college, while maintaining the academic strength of the class. These entering classes have averaged 575 students each fall.

• 82% of full-time faculty hold the most advanced degree in their field; there are no teaching assistants.
• 185 full-time faculty
• 39 majors, 49 minors, and 13 pre-professional programs

• Lynchburg has earned over 160 ODAC titles and has had over 220 NCAA All-American Athletes.
• Approximately 100 student clubs and organizations, including intramural and club sports

• Lynchburg alumni have success in a wide range of careers and in pursuing graduate studies. For information about recent graduates, please read this.

• Average SAT composite score: 1050
• Average GPA: 3.2