501 Vine Street
Scranton, PA 18509

Lackawanna College is an accredited, private, non-profit educational Pennsylvania community college, providing opportunities for career and personal development within selected associate degree, certificate, and continuing education programs.

Lackawanna College has an open admissions policy and offers higher education opportunities to all persons who seek to improve their lives regardless of their socio-economic status, past achievements, gender, national origin, age, race, color or creed. In doing so, the Pennsylvania Community College recognizes its responsibility to maintain a comprehensive program of services to support students aspiring to transfer to four-year institutions, seek employment, upgrade their job-skills, or develop professionally.

Lackawanna College ensures an education that will help students learn the basics of their course of study, as well as becoming specialists and experts in their field. In doing so, Lackawanna College enables students to learn real-life skills that will help them in the real world. Students can expect to improve their ability to learn effectively, seek and gather information, communicate both orally and in writing, apply computer technology, and work interdependently.

Quick Facts:

Lackawanna College changed its name to better reflect the reality of the institution today. The title "junior college" had become too restrictive to encompass the present status of the Pennsylvania Community College or to express the potential for the future.

Lackawanna College's development into the premier community-oriented junior college in Northeastern Pennsylvania parallels the development of the region. With the growth of the railroads in the 19th Century, demand for the clean-burning anthracite coal greatly expanded.

The main campus at Lackawanna College has been in existence for more than a century and the Scranton business College was founded in 1894 to train administrative and fiscal managers and their support personnel.

Lackawanna College's main campus also houses the institution's long distance learning facilities, utilizing modern technology to increase the reach and scope of educational services.

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