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Lincoln Memorial University was awarded 7 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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LMU landed the #618 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when LMU held the #947 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 41 colleges in Tennessee, LMU is ranked at #6.
The acceptance rate at Lincoln Memorial University is 78%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that LMU is a good fit for you.
About 19% of students accepted to LMU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 472 and 580. Math scores were between 510 and 610.
At LMU, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 8 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Lincoln Memorial University is 56%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Lincoln Memorial University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at LMU for first-time, full-time students is 42%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,817 undergraduates at LMU with 1,305 being full-time and 512 being part-time.
$0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
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$16,664 | $17,153 | $18,956 | $22,835 | $25,682 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of LMU, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 LMU, approximately 54% of students took out student loans averaging $6,155 a year. That adds up to $24,620 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for LMU are given below.
Contact Details | |
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Address: | 6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway, Harrogate, TN 37752-8231 |
Phone: | 423-869-3611 |
Website: | www.lmunet.edu/ |
Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
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Nursing | 332 | $59,588 |
Medicine | 227 | NA |
Veterinary Medicine | 124 | NA |
Allied Health Professions | 117 | NA |
Educational Administration | 101 | NA |
Law | 83 | NA |
Business Administration & Management | 66 | NA |
Curriculum & Instruction | 53 | NA |
Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians | 39 | NA |
General Biology | 30 | NA |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 1,602 students took at least one online class at Lincoln Memorial University. This is a decrease from the 1,644 students who took online classes the previous year.
Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
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2022-2023 | 1,602 | 407 |
2021-2022 | 1,644 | 346 |
2020-2021 | 489 | 489 |
2018-2019 | 197 | 197 |
Learn more about online learning at Lincoln Memorial University.
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Footnotes
*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.
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