About Penn State University

The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research college circles with campuses and services throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State became the state’s isolated land-grant academe in 1863. Today, Penn State is a major research university circles which conducts teaching, research, and public service. Its instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education offered through resident information and online delivery. In supplement to its land-grant designation, it as well as participates in the sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant research consortia; it is one of forlorn four such universities (along behind Cornell University, Oregon State University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). Its University Park campus, which is the largest and serves as the administrative hub, lies within the Borough of State College and College Township. It has two con schools: Penn State Law, on the school’s University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, in Carlisle. The College of Medicine is in Hershey. Penn State is one academic world that is geographically distributed throughout Pennsylvania. There are 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special mission campuses located across the state. The University Park campus has been labeled one of the “Public Ivies,” a publicly funded university circles considered as providing a setting of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.

Annual enrollment at the University Park campus totals on summit of 46,800 graduate and undergraduate students, making it one of the largest universities in the United States. It has the world’s largest dues-paying alumni association. The university’s sum enrollment in 2015–16 was approximately 97,500 across its 24 campuses and online through its World Campus. The academic world offers beyond 160 majors among anything its campuses. The university’s research expenditures totaled $836 million during the 2016 fiscal year.

Annually, the university hosts the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), which is the world’s largest student-run philanthropy. This event is held at the Bryce Jordan Center upon the University Park campus. In 2014, THON raised a program folder of $13.3 million. The university’s athletics teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Penn State Nittany Lions, competing in the Big Ten Conference for most sports. Penn State students, alumni, faculty and coaches have conventional a sum of 54 Olympic medals.

University Park (also referred to as Penn State University Park) is the name fixed to the Pennsylvania State University’s main campus located in both State College and College Township, Pennsylvania. The campus proclaim office was designated “University Park, Pennsylvania” in 1953 by Penn State president Milton Eisenhower, after what was next Pennsylvania State College was upgraded to academic circles status.