56 Facts About Liberty University

Liberty University is a private evangelical university in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Liberty University was placed on probation multiple times in the 1990s by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools due to heavy debt loads.

Since 1999, Liberty has had an informal relationship with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, two of whose members sit on the university board of trustees.

In 2004, Liberty University named its School of Government after Falwell family friend Senator Jesse Helms.

When high-speed Internet connections became more widespread around 2005, Liberty University began to offer online courses to a larger adult population.

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In 2009, Liberty University withdrew official recognition of its Democratic club, saying that its political positions, including support of abortion rights, were in conflict with the school.

In 2012, Liberty University acquired the former Lynchburg Sears building to house Liberty University online and a television station.

Ben Howe, whose parents worked for Falwell's Liberty University, published The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values.

In spring 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty allowed some students to return to campus after spring break over the objections of the city's mayor and contrary to the practices of most U S colleges and universities.

Student leaders created an online petition to force Liberty University to shut down the school's think tank, the Falkirk Center, named after Jerry Falwell Jr.

Liberty University's later was not taken to the hospital but the police later pestered her until she agreed to be photographed naked by a female debate coach.

Liberty University Arena is the home of the men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball.

Liberty University is governed by a 30-member board of trustees that includes Jonathan Falwell, the son and brother of the two former university presidents.

Liberty University formerly served as the chair of the board of trustees and was appointed president after the son of the university's founder, Jerry Falwell, Jr.

New York Times reported that faculty at Liberty University acknowledge that Liberty University Online is a steep drop-off in quality relative to the traditional classes at the university.

The online division at the Liberty University is a significant revenue source for the university.

Liberty University offers 11 bachelor's degrees in aeronautics from professional pilot to UAS.

Liberty University has worked with American Eagle, Piedmont Airlines and Wayman Aviation to alleviate their pilot shortages.

Liberty University offers a Bachelor of Science in Cinematic Arts Degree, which is based in the new Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center .

In 2017, Liberty University bought The Center for Advanced Engineering and Research facility in Bedford, Virginia.

In 2017, Liberty announced its new Center for Law and Government will be led by former U S representative Robert Hurt.

Liberty University is among the ten colleges that enrolled the most undergraduates in fall 2018 according to US News.

When including online students, Liberty enrolled more students than any university in the United States as of 2018.

Liberty University is consistently ranked as the "Most Conservative College in America" by Niche and various other publications.

Liberty University was founded in 1971 and received regional accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation in 1980, which was reaffirmed in 2016.

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In terms of combined traditional and distance learning students, Liberty University is the 7th-largest four-year university, and the largest university in Virginia.

In 2021, a former Liberty University student was part of a class action lawsuit filed against the U S Department of Education alleging that the institution should not be eligible to receive federal funding due to its discriminatory practices against LGBT students.

In 2015, Liberty University denied the discounted tuition to same-sex and trans spouses of military personnel that it offered to heterosexual military couples.

In 2015, Liberty University revised the code to give students the freedom to watch rated "R" movies and to play video games rated "M".

Liberty University's convocation is the largest weekly gathering of Christian students in America.

Liberty University students are allowed to possess guns in the on-campus dorms.

Liberty University remains the only school in the country to finish first in all three rankings in a single year.

Liberty University is a member of the ASUN Conference for 17 of its 20 varsity sports.

In 2020, Liberty University entered the rankings in the AP Poll at 25 for the first time in program history.

Liberty University regularly competes for the Sasser Cup, the Big South's trophy for the university that has the best sports program among the member institutions.

Liberty University has won the Sasser Cup ten times, the most in the Big South.

In 2012, Liberty University became the first Big South school to win five consecutive Sasser Cups.

Liberty University earned its highest ranking ever when it was selected as the No 12 seed in the East Region.

Men's hockey started in 1985 when students at Liberty organized a team to compete against surrounding colleges and clubs but has since become a competitive club team competing against much larger schools such as University of Oklahoma, University of Delaware, and Penn State University.

Also in 2006, Liberty University became the only school in the state of Virginia to host a men's Division I American Collegiate Hockey Association club hockey team.

Currently, Liberty University has Division I, II, and III men's teams and Division I and II women's teams.

Liberty University has an Internet education component called Liberty University Online; known as LU Online or LUO.

In fiscal year 2020, Liberty University received $800 million from online tuition and $361 million from residential student tuition.

In December 2010, Liberty University sold $120 million in facilities bonds to finance expansion.

The U S Department of Education rated Liberty as having a "perfect" financial responsibility score.

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In 2018, ProPublica and the New York Times reported that Liberty University students were sixth in terms of receiving federal aid for the year 2017.

Liberty University has sponsored NASCAR driver William Byron, a LU student, since 2014 in a late model program run by Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Liberty University is in the midst of a deal with Byron and NASCAR Cup Series team Hendrick Motorsports that runs through 2026.

In 2019, Liberty University reportedly received about $700 million in federal funding.

Liberty University students have a lower default rate compared to the national average of graduates from all schools.

However, Liberty University students have a higher rate of defaults within three years of completing their studies compared to graduates of other private, non-profit, four-year colleges.

Liberty University spends far less on instruction than traditional private universities, for-profit colleges and other nonprofit religious colleges.

Liberty University is a conservative Evangelical college which is reflected in its honor code and other policies.

Liberty University was a satellite location for CPAC 2019, hosting numerous conservative speakers on-campus.

Liberty University rescinded a speaking invitation of Jonathan Merritt, an alumnus of the school, after he criticized Liberty University.

In 2018, some Liberty students went to Washington, D C, to support President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.