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The Pennsylvania State University was founded on February 22, 1855 by act P.L.46, No.50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. Centre County became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte donated 200 acres (809,000 m 2) of land and sold the trustees 200 acres ...
Pennsylvania State University. / 40.79833°N 77.86000°W / 40.79833; -77.86000. The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of ...
Enrollment (Fall 2023) [5] Endowment ... Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan: 1855 1950 [e] Public 51,316 ... Penn State, the number 11 was placed in ...
Widener University. / 39.8607; -75.3551. Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses: two in Pennsylvania ( Harrisburg and Exton) and one in Wilmington, Delaware . Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school was established in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Pennsylvania State University is a geographically dispersed university with campuses located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. While the administrative hub of the university is located at its flagship campus, University Park, the 19 additional commonwealth campuses together enroll 37 percent of Penn State's undergraduate student ...
Pugh Street in State College, Pennsylvania is named in his honor. 2. William Henry Allen. (1808–1882) [4] [5] 1864 – 1866. (2 years) LL.D., Union College (1852) Before becoming the President of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania Allen was the President of Girard College for 12 years.
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania is a public historically black university in Cheyney, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth, [5] it is the oldest of all historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States. It is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Thurgood ...
The Schreyer Honors College (or SHC) is the honors program of the Pennsylvania State University. Founded in 1980 as the University Scholars Program, it was expanded and renamed in 1997 in response to a $30 million gift by William and Joan Schreyer. Schreyer was one of three honors colleges, along with those at Arizona State and Mississippi, to ...