page_title: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
section_title: Colleges and universities
hierarchical_section_title: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania / Education / Colleges and universities
caption_attribution_description: Map of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States Public School Districts
context_page_description: Lackawanna County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 214,437. Its county seat and largest city is Scranton.
  The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. It is Pennsylvania's last county to be created. It is named for the Lackawanna River.
  Lackawanna County is included in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the second-largest county within the metropolitan area. It lies northwest of the Pocono Mountains. Lackawanna County is located approximately 40 miles from the New Jersey border in Montague, New Jersey, and also located approximately 33 miles from upstate New York in Windsor, New York.
context_section_description: Clarks Summit University
  Johnson College
  Keystone College (also in Wyoming County)
  Lackawanna College
  Marywood University
  Penn State Scranton
  Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
  University of Scranton
caption: Map of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania School Districts
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