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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.
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's only land-grant university, the Pennsylvania State University was established in 1855 [1] as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, before becoming the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1863 under University President Evan Pugh, the Pennsylvania State College under James Calder in 1874 and, finally, the Pennsylvania ...
Current Name Former Name(s) Year of Change Adams State University: Adams State College 2012 [1] University of Advancing Technology: CAD Institute; University of Advancing Computer Technology 1996, 2002 Adventist University of Health Sciences: Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences 2012 [2] Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University
Arthur Horace James, former Pennsylvania Governor (1939–1943) John James, U.S. representative from Michigan's 10th congressional district; Robert Jubelirer, former President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate, former Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania [29] Theodore H. Kattouf, former US Ambassador to Syria
In 1973, State College adopted a home rule charter which took effect in 1976; [5] since then, it has not been governed by the state's Borough Code, although it retains "Borough of State College" as its official name. The university has a post office address in University Park, Pennsylvania. When it changed its name from Penn State College to ...
The school's name changed to the Pennsylvania State College in 1874; enrollment fell to 64 undergraduates the following year as the school tried to balance purely agricultural studies with a more classic education. In 1953, the university sought a name change for the town called State College to reflect the new status of the school as a university.
As a college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Harrisburg grants associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In addition to the 33 full baccalaureate programs it offers, as one of the 24 campuses of the Penn State, the college also offers the first two years of study leading to more than 160 majors offered throughout the Penn State system.