Lehigh University

In its 2024 ranking of best U.S. colleges, ''The Wall Street Journal'', which ranks on the basis of student outcomes (70%), learning environment (20%), and diversity (10%), that analysis ranked Lehigh as 14th-best, overall, for that year. In the 2025 edition of "Best Colleges Ranking" published by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', a site which does not report its methodology on its reporting page, Lehigh was ranked 46th (in a tie), in the "National Universities" category, with the following further category rankings: 25th for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", 26th for "Best Value Schools", tied for 51st for "Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs", and 45th for "Most Innovative Schools".

Along with three other Pennsylvania colleges, Dickinson College in Carlisle, Lafayette College in Easton, and Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Lehigh was a 2020 recipient of the Campus Sustainability Achievement Award issued by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education in commemoration of its participation in the Solar Collaboration Project.

Lehigh University was nationally ranked in 2024, as 1st in "Best Science Lab Facilities", 10th for “Best College Library”, and 15th for "Most Beautiful Campus" according to The Princeton Review. Additionally, it holds the 2nd spot for "Best College Newspaper", 3rd in “Their Students Love These Colleges”, 16th in “Best Career Placement (Private Schools)”, 24th in “Top Green Colleges”, 30th in “Best Value Colleges (Private Schools)”, and ranks 4th for "Lots of Race/Class Interaction".

According to PayScale's 2024 report, Lehigh ranks 1st among schools nationally for business majors by salary potential, with an early career median pay of $95,300 and a mid-career median pay of $194,900. Lehigh ranks 12th among universities for bachelor's degree salary potential, with a mid-career median salary of $147,300. Lehigh University ranks 26th among schools nationally for computer science majors by salary potential and 34th among schools nationally for engineering majors by salary potential.

In the 2024-2025 Forbes rankings of America's Top Colleges, Lehigh is ranked 64th overall, 44th among private colleges, 49th among research universities, and 28th among institutions in the Northeast.

Lehigh University's College of Business is ranked 23rd in Poets&Quants' 2023 list of Best Undergraduate Business Schools. This reflects a rise from 27th place in 2022. Additionally, the university's part-time, online FLEX MBA program is ranked 13th among online MBA programs by Poets&Quants for 2025.

In 2023, U.S. News & World Report has identified Lehigh University's 1-MBA program as ranking 5th in the United States in salary-to-debt ratio. The publication recently evaluated MBA programs by the highest return on investment by examining starting salary-to-debt ratio from its 2023-2024 Best Business Schools (MBA) ranking.

In 2018, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Lehigh's part-time MBA program 20th in the nation.

In 2012, ''BusinessWeek'' ranked Lehigh's College of Business 31st in the nation among undergraduate business programs. In 2012, ''BusinessWeek'' ranked Lehigh the seventh-best overall undergraduate finance program in the nation, and ranked its undergraduate accounting program the 21st-best in the nation.

In 2012, ''Entrepreneur Magazine'' and The Princeton Review named Lehigh the 24th- best undergraduate college for entrepreneurship. Provided by Wikipedia