DeSales University

private Catholic University in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
Organization university Q5244080

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
university, private not-for-profit educational institution[6]
Official website
www.desales.edu[13]

Status and dates

Inception
1964[11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1964 ROR 1965 edition 2026-09-26 · cc0-1.0+geonames-cc-by-4.0 ↗

Location

Headquarters location
Center Valley[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Pennsylvania[4]
Postal code
18034-9568[9]
Street address
2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA, 18034-9568

Industry and activity

Financials

Employees
+683[14]
Total assets
+251956238[17]
More facts +11
Religion or worldview
Catholic Church[3]
Academic calendar type
semester
Admission rate
+0.82
Admission yield rate
+0.19
Athletics program
DeSales Bulldogs
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
master's colleges and universities: larger programs, high undergraduate, postbaccalaureate: business-dominant, with arts & sciences, four-year, small, primarily residential, four-year, medium full-time, selective, lower transfer-in, professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence[18][19][20][21][22][23]
Count of students
+3302, +2645[15][16]
Endowment
118.8M (80.5M–118.8M, n=3)
Number of viewers/listeners
+918439
Social media followers
+4114, +4102
🏷️ Also known as
en Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales en DeSales University es DeSales University es DeSales University (Pensilvania) es Universidad DeSales fa دانشگاه دی سیلز fr Université DeSales ja デサレス大学
🔖 Identifiers · 26
ROR ID
02gag4781
OpenAlex ID
I38984865
GRID ID
grid.446642.6
Domain name
desales.edu
Facebook username
DeSalesUniversity
Freebase ID
/m/0b1h9w
GNIS Feature ID
2633818
GeoNames ID
5209701
Instagram username
desalesuniversity
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
210739
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KISTI ID
K000207067
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
38984865
OpenStreetMap way ID
612448333
Ringgold ID
2738
SEVIS school ID
7580
Scilit organization ID
37685
Subreddit
Desales
Threads username
desalesuniversity
Times Higher Education World University ID
desales-university
Topic's main category
Category:DeSales University
X (Twitter) username
desales
YouTube channel ID
UCFspc0xiMZWCJWJ9lpNW0uw
📚 Sources · 1
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Summary

DeSales University is a university[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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