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Baccalaureate University 893 1965 Penn State Wilkes-Barre: Lehman Township: Luzerne: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Baccalaureate University 766 1916 Penn State Scranton: Dunmore borough: Lackawanna: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Baccalaureate University 1,386 1923 Penn State York: Spring Garden ...
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.
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
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.
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.
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The Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) is a public college in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It is affiliated with, but a self-governing entity of, Pennsylvania State University . It is an applied technology college (known by the locals and alumni alike as "Penn Tech", for decades) that offers certificate, associate , baccalaureate ...