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The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Among public institutions, the Commonwealth System of Higher Education includes semi-public state-related colleges and universities.
The current organizational structure was formed in 1993 when Kasturba Medical College and Manipal College of Dental Sciences were accorded deemed university status by UGC. [2] Manipal Institute of Technology became a constituent unit of Manipal Academy of Higher Education in 2000. [ 3 ]
Before the legal creation of state-related universities and colleges in the 1960s, Lincoln University, Temple University, and the University of Pittsburgh were fully private universities. [5] Temple and Pitt were granted state-related status by acts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1965 and 1966, respectively.
The normal schools evolved from state normal schools, to state teacher's colleges, to state colleges. Act 188, which was signed into law on November 12, 1982, and came into effect on July 1, 1983, established the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and converted those state colleges into universities.
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In 1960, the Pennsylvania Department of Education granted the expansion of liberal arts programs to colleges in the system, including MSTC. MSTC became Mansfield State College. The campus continued to expand with the construction of other new buildings and new academic programs through the 1960s and 1970s.
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Alvernia University was founded in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis first as college for the sisters and then as a four-year liberal arts college. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many of the college's renovated classrooms and offices had been used for elementary and secondary education before 1958.