Lyon College

2300 Highland Road, Batesville, AR 72501 -  View Map

Tel: 800-423-2542

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• Founded in 1872, it is the oldest independent college in Arkansas operating under its original charter. Lyon is a closely-knit teaching and learning community distinguished by its honor system, innovative residential house system, and endowed international studies program. Lyon is classified as a baccalaureate (liberal arts) college by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and is included among the country’s best liberal arts (bachelor’s) colleges by U.S. News & World Report.
• Lyon College is located in Batesville, Arkansas. Lyon’s picturesque 136-acre campus is conveniently located in a comfortable neighborhood setting. It features modern, attractive, and functional academic facilities such as the black-box Holloway Theatre, Lyon Business and Economics Building, and Derby Center for Science and Mathematics, which was completed in December 2003.
• Lyon confers the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, and offers majors in accounting, art, biology, business administration, chemistry, computer science, economics, early childhood/elementary education, English, environmental studies, history, mathematics, music, political science, psychology, religion and philosophy, Spanish, and theater. Students may also design an individualized major. The College also offers professional concentrations in human resource management and journalism, and programs in middle school and secondary education leading to teacher certification.
• Profile last updated: 01/05/2010.

In the News:

• Batesville's Lyon College Equips Campus with AEDs (KARK Little Rock)
  posted on July 7, 2011 at 08:19:07 pm
  On most days when he is not in class, Lyon College student Jerry Davis can often be found in Becknell Gymnasium playing basketball. It is exactly what he was doing on a cold day in February when he became winded.
• Lyon College Opens Temporary Dining Hall (KATV Little Rock)
  posted on June 7, 2011 at 09:48:19 pm
  (KATV) Batesville - On October 26, 2010 the Edwards Commons Building on the Lyon College campus caught fire. A dining hall was created in the Becknell Gymnasium, but the new temporary dining facility is open for business and can seat approximately 270 people.
• Quitman student graduates from Lyon College (The Log Cabin Democrat)
  posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:08:31 am
  BATESVILLE — Kelsey Amanda Lack of Quitman graduated from Lyon College at the college’s 139th commencement May 7. Lack earned a bachelor of arts degree in English and theatre.
• Education notebook (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
  posted on May 8, 2011 at 08:09:02 am
  Lyon dining hall plans nearly done Architects have met with Lyon College students, faculty and staff to design plans for a new student center and dining hall and will soon develop construction plans, officials with the college said.
• Lyon College looks to rebuild after October fire (KAIT Jonesboro)
  posted on April 29, 2011 at 10:34:03 pm
  Lyon College is on it's way to rebuilding it's student center and dining hall after a fire in October destroyed them.

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