Edinboro University is the northwestern Pennsylvania region’s largest and most comprehensive institution of higher education. Located in the resort community of Edinboro, the University is only 18 miles from Erie, Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city, and within 100 miles of and with easy interstate highway access to the major educational and cultural centers of Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Edinboro boasts 42 buildings on a beautiful 585-acre campus, which includes a five-acre lake, open fields and woods, eight on-campus residence halls for approximately 2,500 students, and the largest and most comprehensive academic library in northwestern Pennsylvania with nearly 420,000 volumes, 700,000 microform units and access to over 100 databases.

Students are guided and inspired by an internationally recognized instructional faculty, 90 percent of whom hold terminal degrees in their field of study. Celebrated for their outstanding research and scholarly accomplishments, a number of faculty members also have held state and national leadership roles in their professional organizations. The student-faculty ratio is 19:1.

The Office of Accessibility for Students administers support services dedicated to enhancing the University’s commitment to equal opportunity for students with disabilities. Edinboro’s students with disabilities and many visitors benefit from a campus that is highly accessible and celebrates diversity.

The Edinboro University Alumni Association has experienced dramatic growth during the past several years and now has 65,000 members. Alumni have played a major role in fundraising efforts for student scholarships, and continue to be some of the best ambassadors for Edinboro University. EU graduates have brought credit to the University through their pursuit of graduate- and professional-level scholarship and in careers as government officials, Disney animators, federal agents, medical professionals, acclaimed artists and college presidents as well as leaders in business, education, science, criminal justice and countless other fields.