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The Center for the Performing Arts is the successor to the Penn State Artists Series, founded in 1957 to present a variety of artistic performances on Penn State's campus. [3] The Center hosts a series of musical and theatrical events annually. Palmer Museum of Art. The Palmer Museum of Art, opened in University Park in 1972, hosts a permanent ...
This portion of the list excludes those buildings in which an insignificant number of courses are held or those buildings that have an obvious use other than that of academics, such as libraries, administration buildings, and student centers.
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.
Penn State started offering distance education courses in 1892, when it launched one of the nation's first correspondence study programs to farmers around Pennsylvania. More than one hundred years later, in 1998, the University reaffirmed its commitment to providing accessible learning to all who need it with the launching of Penn State World Campus.
Penn State Great Valley, founded in 1963 to provide graduate engineering programs to employees of local businesses, was housed in a rented school building in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and was known as the King of Prussia Graduate Center. In 1974, the center began offering courses off-site at area businesses.
Penn State Greater Allegheny offers a number of two- and four-year degree programs that students can start and finish on the campus. Penn State Greater Allegheny also offers a 3+1 program in energy engineering; students spend three years at Greater Allegheny, and transition to University Park for the fourth year to complete the program.
The film-video program, originating in the College of Arts and Architecture, and the media studies program, previously a communications studies major housed in the College of Liberal Arts, were both introduced at Penn State in the 1960s. The telecommunications major was born in the College of Liberal Arts, dating back to the mid-1970s.
In 1923, Pennsylvania State College (not yet a university) established a branch school in Scranton, offering evening technical institute programs. The school was renamed the Scranton Center in 1951 and became part of the General Extension division of the Penn State. In 1953, its courses were restructured as associate degree programs.