Catholic University in Pennsylvania

DeSales University in Pennsylvania, Lehigh County:
Founded in 1964, DeSales University is a private, four-year Catholic university for men and women, located in Lehigh Valley, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. We provide a range of undergraduate and graduate programs in areas including Business Administration, Education, Nursing, Criminal Justice, and more. Our priority is to provide our students with a quality, broad-based liberal arts, career centered education. Our students are exposed to Catholic teachings but are also afforded the luxury of exploring in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom.

Course categories include:
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Nursing
- Criminal Justice 
- Law & Society
- Political Science
- Accounting
- Finance
- Human Resource Management
- Management
- Psychology, and more

Accreditation:
Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the National League for Nursing. The Physician Assistant Program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA). DeSales is also a member of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, which offers cross-registration and interlibrary loan with Cedar Crest, Lafayette, Moravian, and Muhlenberg Colleges, and Lehigh University.

- It is the mission of DeSales University to provide men and women with quality higher education according to the philosophy of Christian humanism as developed by Saint Francis de Sales and his spiritual heirs.

- The University imparts knowledge about, and develops talents for, personal, familial, and societal living. DeSales University enriches the human community and enhances the dignity of the individual through its educational endeavors. In its work, the University fosters a vital and respectful dialogue between Roman Catholic faith and human culture.

- Students can enjoy our great academic programs, the personal atmosphere of our small suburban campus in Pennsylvania's scenic Lehigh Valley, and our supportive learning environment.

For DeSales University, Christian humanism means that every aspect of human experience is capable of enlightenment by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This Gospel brings light to each dimension of personal existence (physical, intellectual, social, moral, aesthetic, and religious) and every environmental domain (natural world, social institutions, cultural achievements, historical periods, and religious societies).

The encounter between the Word of God and the concrete world of the human person makes a fully meaningful existence possible. DeSales University strives to teach the student what it means to be Christian in a Salesian way, what it means to embrace one's own life, and what it means to bring this Good News to the human family.