Lehman College Overview

Located in Bronx, New York, Lehman College is a public institution. The city atmosphere of Bronx makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

What Is Lehman College Known For?

• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Lehman.
• For the 2019-2020 academic year, 38% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Lehman with a bachelor's degree make about $51,661 a year. That's 27% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Lehman College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Lehman.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#59	Best Value Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#59	Best Value Sociology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#62	Best Value History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#62	Best Value Fine & Studio Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#64	Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#68	Best Value English Language & Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#70	Best Value Social Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#91	Best Value General Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#94	Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#120	Best Value Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Lehman has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#2	Best Education/Teaching of Individuals with Speech or Language Impairments Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual
#5	Best Physical Education Teaching & Coaching Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual
#15	Best Reading Teacher Education Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual
#28	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual
#64	Best Special Education Schools	College Factual
#110	Best Education Graduate Degree Schools	College Factual

Where Is Lehman College?

Contact details for Lehman are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	250 Bedford Park Blvd West, Bronx, NY 10468
Phone:	718-960-8000
Website:	www.lehman.cuny.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lehman-College/186133461418370
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/@LehmanCollege

How Do I Get Into Lehman?

You can apply to Lehman online at: https://www2.cuny.edu/admissions/apply-to-cuny/

Admission Requirements for Lehman

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Lehman?

The acceptance rate of Lehman College is 47%. While it may not be as selective as some schools, it does screen its applicants very carefully. Do what you can to stand out among others in the pool of applicants!

Approximately 35% of accepted students are men and 65% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 43%, and the acceptance rate for women is 50%.

Average Test Scores

About 97% of students accepted to Lehman submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 480 and 540. Math scores were between 480 and 540.

Lehman received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Lehman College?

The overall average net price of Lehman is $29,716. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Lehman, approximately 5% of students took out student loans averaging $4,057 a year. That adds up to $16,228 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Lehman is 5.5%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Lehman College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 12,833 undergraduate students at Lehman, with 8,380 being full-time and 4,453 being part-time.

There are also 2,258 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 8,380 full-time undergraduates at Lehman, 33% are male and 67% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Lehman College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	604
Black or African American	2,050
Hispanic or Latino	4,946
White	390
International Students	238
Other Races/Ethnicities	152

Over 170 countries are represented at Lehman. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, South Korea, and India.

Online Learning at Lehman College

In 2019-2020, 15,047 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Lehman has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 45th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Lehman

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Lehman College was $7,410 for in-state students. Out-of-state students paid $15,360. The following table shows how Lehman is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Public Health	#34	#40

Online Affordability Rankings of Lehman Rankings

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Lehman College was $7,410 for in-state students. Out-of-state students paid $15,360. The following table shows how Lehman is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Public Health	#13	#43
Health Professions	#22	#140
Business, Management & Marketing	#42	#84
Business Administration & Management	#43	#121

Online Growth Rankings of Lehman

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Lehman College was 701.0%. This is the #132 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Lehman regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of Lehman majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Business Administration & Management	14%
Business, Management & Marketing	14%
Education	4%
Health Professions	10%
Public Health	28%
Special Education	26%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Lehman ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Lehman.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Public Health	#1
Special Education	#19
Health Professions	#28
Business Administration & Management	#31
Education	#40
Business, Management & Marketing	#52

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Lehman College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	0	328	0	99	427
General Psychology	0	324	0	0	324
Nursing	0	199	16	103	318
Sociology	0	248	0	0	248
Health & Medical Administrative Services	0	234	0	0	234
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	9	35	183	227
Social Work	0	143	0	70	213
Accounting	0	176	0	33	209
Communication Sciences	0	121	0	38	159
Computer Science	0	114	0	4	118
Public Health	0	76	0	29	105
General English Literature	0	93	0	0	93
General Biology	0	88	0	4	92
Special Education	0	0	11	76	87
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	0	87	0	0	87
Information Science	0	83	0	0	83
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	2	6	68	76
Anthropology	0	72	0	0	72
Health & Physical Education	0	66	0	0	66
Communication & Media Studies	0	63	0	0	63
Mathematics	0	37	0	8	45
Educational Administration	0	0	16	25	41
Fine & Studio Arts	0	35	0	5	40
Chemistry	0	39	0	0	39
Political Science & Government	0	39	0	0	39
Romance Languages	0	30	0	5	35
Student Counseling	0	0	0	34	34
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	0	33	0	0	33
Philosophy	0	28	0	0	28
History	0	23	0	4	27
Ethnic Studies	0	26	0	0	26
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	0	26	0	0	26
Multilingual Education	0	0	23	0	23
Economics	0	20	0	0	20
Teaching English or French	0	0	2	15	17
Journalism	0	16	0	0	16
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	0	0	0	15	15
General Visual & Performing Arts	0	14	0	0	14
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	3	0	8	11
Music	0	11	0	0	11
Natural Resources Conservation	0	10	0	0	10
Geography & Cartography	1	2	0	6	9
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	0	8	0	0	8
Area Studies	0	7	0	0	7
Geological & Earth Sciences	0	7	0	0	7
Drama & Theater Arts	0	7	0	0	7
Physics	0	5	0	0	5
Design & Applied Arts	0	5	0	0	5
Dance	0	1	0	0	1
Other Education	0	0	0	0	0
Electronics Engineering Technology	0	0	0	0	0
Writing Studies	0	0	0	0	0
Classical Languages & Literature	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic Languages	0	0	0	0	0
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	0	0	0	0	0
Religious Studies	0	0	0	0	0
Public Policy	0	0	0	0	0
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	1	2,958	109	832	3,900

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Jim.henderson under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.