Lenoir-Rhyne University
School info
3.4
Overall Quality
Reputation
3.9
Food
2.6
Clubs
3.3
Facilities
3.6
Internet
3.1
Location
3.5
Opportunities
3.5
Safety
3.8
Social
3.3
Happiness
3.7
Basic Information
Location
- Hickory, NC
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Private university
- Established: 1891
- Founder: Four Lutheran pastors
Academic information
Degree Courses
- 50+ majors
- 53 minors
- 20 graduate programs
Key Area
- Natural Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Mathematics and Computer Science
- Psychology
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 2,405 (fall 2021)
- Undergraduates: 1,579
- Postgraduates: 826
- Academic Staff: 134
Notable Alumni
- Virginia Dare Aderholdt
- Frank Barger
- Rick Barnes
- Cherie Berry
- Perry Fewell
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Students talk about this school
Good reviews
Overall 5
Great school. Great campus.
Overall 4.9
It's a perfect place that truly puts students first!
Overall 4.6
LR is a midsized university at the foothills of Appalachia. The football is awesome. 2 national SACS II national championshions. Player in NFL. Laid back attitude in mid sized town, great reputation and lots of job opportunities. The Bear lair , Chickfilla, and Starbucks on campus is good, but cafeteria needs more food variety, not the same stuff
Overall 4.5
LR was a great place for my undergrad. Nice people and great campus with small distances and easy access to the city. I had a great time there and would love to come back someday.
Overall 4.5
a 11th ranked private school in the South by US world and News (Awsome)!
Overall 4.3
nice releaxed place with small classes and people who cares. yet, big enough to have lots of stuff do do.
Overall 4.2
A wonderful place at the foothills of Appalachian Mountains. Nice weather and small-town feel near to Charlotte. About 3000 students, private and nice. Have ChickFileA, Starbucks, bookstore, post office & cafeterias. About 800 are grad students while some do grad work at UNC after undergrad here. Could not ask for more for me and my girlfriends.
Overall 4.2
food can be okay sometimes
Overall 4.2
Great undergrad school. Having just completed a degree here, I now understand how all of my friends before me waltzed into Ivy League grad programs!
Overall 4.1
great small lib university with strong athletics teams
Bad reviews
Overall 1
This school is going nowhere fast. The professors act like theyve never left Hickory once in there lives. Absolute joke of a school.
Overall 1.1
This place only cares about your money. They hire awful teachers and don't care about your well being. Glad I am transferring in January.
Overall 1.2
As a graduate, I do NOT recommend LR. The classes here will leave you lost and unprepared. The culture is unwelcoming of minorities, and only promotes blind loyalty to a greedy administration. An LR degree is worth little outside LR; most grads work at the school. If you value freedom of choice and presumption of innocence, LR is not for you.
Overall 1.3
As an alum, I dont recommend LR to anyone. I had a few good instructors, a few good times with OK friends, but LR fails to take responsibility when it falls short of its own expectations. If I hadn't had prior IT experience, I wouldve left LR completely unprepared. And if you want a party school, look elsewhere; the nightlife is non-existent.
Overall 1.3
Worst school ever. The amount we pay each year does not show. Cafe closes at 7 everyday, library isnt 24 hours, campus is super dry, no events are ever planned, the people are stuck up and rude, and not a lot of diversity.
Overall 1.6
A majority of the students that go to LR do not even care to be here; the facilities are lacking; the food options are somewhat questionable; and the classes are not challenging for the most part. I would assume that at a collegiate level, students could at least form coherent sentences or logic, but I was mistaken. NOT a challenging environment.
Overall 1.9
None.
Overall 2
The Cafe food sucks, the campus is really old and not that up to date, there are few interesting clubs and greek life, they have a stupid "convocation" requirement, dorms suck unless you pay extra for the nice dorm(LLC). The school is also really expensive around $24000-$25000, just for tuition. On the bright side getting in is idiot proof