Samek Art Museum. Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
   The university consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. Bucknell was founded in 1846, and features programs in the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, engineering, management, education, and music, as well as programs and pre-professional advising that prepare students for study in law and medicine.
   It offers nearly 50 majors and over 60 minors. South of central Lewisburg, the 445-acre campus is along the west bank of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, at an elevation of 530 feet above sea level.
   Primarily an undergraduate school, Bucknell has about 50 graduate students. Students come from all fifty U.S.
   states and from more than 66 countries; it has nearly 200 student organizations and a large Greek presence. The school's mascot is Bucky the Bison and the school is a member of the Patriot League in NCAA Division I athletics. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origination to a group of Baptists from White Deer Valley Baptist Church who deemed it desirable that a Literary Institution should be established in Central Pennsylvania, embracing a High School for male pupils, another for females, a College and also a Theological Institution. The group's efforts for the institution began to
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