At Bucknell University, students receive a rigorous and highly valuable education that will prepare them to succeed on campus, in their career path and throughout their lives. Established in 1846 as the University at Lewisberg, it was renamed Bucknell University in 1886 in honor of William Bucknell, a major benefactor. The university is highly selective, private, nonsectarian, coeducational (since 1883), residential and undergraduate, with a small graduate program.
