Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus - State College, PA
Posted by: Ernmark
N 40° 47.787 W 077° 51.768
18T E 258480 N 4520105
This is the location of the main campus of Penn State - a system including 24 campuses spread across Pennsylvania, with 100,000 students.
Waymark Code: WMP9ZX
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2015
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The University Park Campus of Penn State is spread across a good portion of Downtown State College, and was founded in 1855. Current enrollment is over 40,000 Undergraduate/Graduate students.
As with other state-owned secondary educational institutions in PA, PSU has had some name changes over the years:
1855 - Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania
1862 - Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
1874 - Pennsylvania State College
1953 - Pennsylvania State University
PSU offers over 160 majors - including its Agricultural programs (Penn State actually operates a creamery on campus with products available to the public - (
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Visit the following link to PSU's website listing current rankings of various educational programs - (
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