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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 ...
In 1998, the university launched Penn State World Campus, or Penn State Online, which offers more than 60 online education programs, degrees, and certificates. Distance education has a long history at Penn State, one of the first universities in the country to offer a correspondence course for remote farmers in 1892.
Baccalaureate University 2,701 1958 Penn State Brandywine: Middletown Township: Delaware: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Baccalaureate University 1,613 1967 Penn State University College of Medicine: Derry Township: Dauphin: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Medical School 809 1967 Penn State Dickinson ...
Penn State University. Archived from the original on 2006-09-10; Bezilla, Michael (1985). "Beyond University Park". Penn State: An Illustrated History. Archived from the original on 2007-01-25; Campuses of Penn State Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 23 November 2005
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.
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.
In 1959, the Pennsylvania State University formally integrated its "Centers" as "Commonwealth Campuses" and the "DuBois Undergraduate Center" officially became the DuBois Campus. Penn State DuBois serves the higher educational needs of the relatively rural surrounding area, and is an important educational resource for the entire DuBois region ...
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre Northern Tier Center, located in Towanda in Bradford County, was established in 1986 under the direction of the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Continuing Education department. Its mission is to extend the resources of the University to Bradford and Sullivan Counties, which are largely rural areas of Northeastern ...