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About Lehigh: The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

Nowhere is Lehigh's commitment to academic excellence, scientific innovation, and hands-on student experience more evident than in its P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science (RCEAS), which enjoys a longstanding, stellar reputation among science and technology institutions throughout the world. The College offers 14 B.S., 22 M.S./M.Eng., and nine Ph.D. degrees in a wide variety of engineering and cross-disciplinary areas. The undergraduate student population is approximately 1,580, while the graduate population is 600, which represents about 32 percent of the overall university student population. The College awards more than 50 percent of the Ph.D. degrees granted by Lehigh.

RCEAS has adopted a dual mission for its educational programs: to produce the most talented engineering innovators and to prepare multidisciplinary leaders and thinkers, including those who have broader professional aspirations in business, law, medicine, design, and public policy. The College is endowed with rich traditions of engineering excellence and blessed by generations of alumni who have distinguished themselves not only as engineers, but also as entrepreneurs, business leaders, attorneys, physicians, and policy makers. These distinguished graduates include Lee Iacocca, the legendary thought leader of corporate America; James Packard, who founded Packard Automobiles; Peter Rossin, who founded Dynamet and endowed the College of Engineering; Roger Penske, who founded the Penske enterprises; astronaut Terry Hart, who completed a space mission on the Challenger; and Dr. William Pierce, who invented the artificial heart.

In research and graduate studies, the College offers some of the most competitive and highly regarded programs in the nation. Almost all graduate programs in engineering are ranked among the first quartile in their discipline by the National Research Council and U.S. News & World Report. Lehigh's College of Engineering has long enjoyed renown in areas such as advanced materials, structural engineering, surface chemistry, and logistics, and it has an emerging reputation for excellence in optical technology, bioengineering, nanotechnology, communications, and high-performance computing.