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The Pennsylvania State University is a geographically dispersed university with campuses located throughout Pennsylvania.While the administrative hub of the university is located at its flagship campus in Penn State University Park, the 19 additional commonwealth campuses together enroll 37 percent of Penn State's undergraduate student population.
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. 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.
More than 82,000 undergraduate and graduate, part-time and full-time, students attend State System universities. [1] Nearly 90 percent are Pennsylvania residents and 80 percent remain in Pennsylvania after graduation. Nearly 20 percent of the total student population are underrepresented minority.
Enrollment is counted by the 21st-day headcount, as provided to the United States Department of Education (USDoE) under the Common Data Set program. Campuses that have small secondary physical locations (<10% total enrollment) that are not reported separately to the USDoE (for extended education, outreach, etc.) are indicated with a footnote.
Population by Race Distribution (2010 Census) [1] Race Percentage of Population White 89.4% Asian 5.2% Black/African American 3.0% American Indian/Alaskan native 0.1% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.0% Hispanic/Latino Origin 2.4%
Penn State York is a commonwealth campus of Pennsylvania State University located in York County, PA in Spring Garden Township.It enrolls 742 students as of 2021. The York campus was established in 1939 to provide technical education and to allow stud
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), [4] the official public geospatial data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania marked its 18th year in 2014. PASDA, which has grown from a small website offering 35 data sets in 1996 to the expansive user-centered data clearinghouse that it is today, has become a staple of the GIS community in Pennsylvania.
Penn State Harrisburg, officially known as the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College and also called The Capital College, [4] is an undergraduate college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University located in Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania. [5] The campus is 9 miles (15 km) south of Harrisburg. Penn ...