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Sporting affiliations. NCAA Division II– PSAC. Website. www.passhe.edu. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education(PASSHE) is an American state agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniathat oversees10 state-owned universities. Collectively, it is the largest provider of higher educationin the commonwealth.
Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, [13] Penn State was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later, in 1863. Its primary campus, known as Penn State University Park, is located in State College and College Township.
Spring Garden College (1851–1992) – baccalaureate university in Philadelphia. United Wesleyan College (1921–1990) – Bible college affiliated with the Wesleyan Church, located in Allentown. Villa Marie College (1925–1989) – baccalaureate Roman Catholic university in Erie; merged with Gannon University.
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 population.
The Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a statutory designation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that confers " state-related " status on four universities in Pennsylvania: Lincoln University, the Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, and the University of Pittsburgh. The designation establishes the schools as an ...
The Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (MSHMC) is a 628-bed [13] non-profit, research and academic medical center located in Hershey, Pennsylvania, providing tertiary and healthcare needs for the Central Pennsylvania and the capital region. MSHMC is the region's only academic university-level teaching center.
Penn State Abington is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University located in Abington, Pennsylvania. The campus is set on 45 acres (180,000 m 2 ) of wooded land. The roughly 4000 undergraduate students (full-time and part-time students combined) are taught by a full-time staff of over 150 professors and teaching assistants.
Director. Faye Chadwell, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. Employees. 576. Website. https://libraries.psu.edu/. Pattee Library. The Penn State University Libraries consists of 36 libraries at 22 locations in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The two main buildings on Penn State's University Park campus, are the Pattee ...