LUconn wrote:LC: riding on LU's coattails since 1971.
To ride the coattails of another entity, one has to achieve their success off that entity. LC was a successful college for 68 years before LU even opened it's doors.
The Princeton Review lists it as one of the 368 best colleges in the nation., LU isn't in this ranking.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Lynchburg 33rd in the top tier of southern master's universities. Lu doesn't rank, but they are given the title of Tier 4.
LC is also one of only 40 colleges nationwide cited in Colleges That Change Lives and is also profiled in The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development. LU is not included on that list.
Lynchburg College was the first institution in the United States to train nuclear physicists and engineers for the NS Savannah project under order of President Eisenhower, to aid in the development and operation of the world's first nuclear powered ship.
If being considered one of the top 368 colleges and one of the top 40 masters universities, both better than what Liberty is considered, is called riding the coattails of Liberty, then I'll take that. Not to mention the fact Jerry Falwell couldn't even hack it at LC and had to transfer to an, at the time, unaccredited bible school to complete his college education.