Lincoln University College, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, was founded in the year in 2002 as Lincoln College and in 2011 Lincoln College was upgraded to Lincoln University College. Lincoln University College is a private institution that provides higher education, approved by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA, National Accreditation Board) and the Ministry of Higher Education. 

The University College has got 5 Star ranking by Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia in 2017 and 2019. Lincoln University College among the nine Malaysian universities listed in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings 2019 ranked 80th in Quality Education provider in 2020 TIMES ranking . Lincoln University College got ISO 9001:2015 Certification in 2019. Situated in the cosmopolitan town of Petaling Jaya, the university college is close to the capital city, Kuala Lumpur. 

Overview 

The story of Lincoln University dates back to the early years of the nineteenth century and to the ancestors of its founders, John Miller Dickey, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson. The maternal grandfather of John Miller Dickey was a marble merchant in Philadelphia who made contributions to the education of African-Americans in that city as early as 1794. Dickey’s father was a minister of the Oxford Presbyterian Church. After serving as a missionary and preaching to the slaves in Georgia, John Miller Dickey became pastor of that same church in Oxford, Pennsylvania, in 1832. 

Sarah Emlen Cresson inherited a long tradition of service and philanthropy through the Society of Friends in Philadelphia. John Miller Dickey was active in the American Colonization Society, and in 1851 took part in the court actions leading to the freeing of a young African-American girl who had been abducted from southern Chester County by slave raiders from Maryland. At the same time, having been unsuccessful in his efforts to gain college admission to even the most liberal of schools for a young freedman named James Amos, Dickey himself undertook to prepare the young man for the ministry. 

Mission 

Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. It does so by: 

• Providing a rigorous liberal arts education featuring active and collaborative learning; 

• Integrating academic and co-curricular programs with the University’s distinctive legacy of global engagement, social responsibility and leadership development; and 

• Cultivating the character, values and standards of excellence needed to enable students to become responsible citizens of a global community. 

Vision Lincoln University will be a national model for both 21st century liberal arts undergraduate education and innovative graduate and professional programs. Rankings and Recognitions Lincoln University has been ranked amongst the Top 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities within the United States. Lincoln University is ranked in the Top 50 Socially Mobile Schools and Top 40 public institutions in our region. 

Lincoln University has been honored by Military Friendly, as an institution that provides and supports veterans and their families. The Value Colleges organization has ranked Lincoln University as the No. 10 Historically Black College and University in the country. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs named Lincoln University to its inaugural list of Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leaders, which recognizes the noteworthy level of engagement of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with the Fulbright Program.