Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania Accompaniment University (commonly referred to as Penn Accompaniment or PSU) is a public, state-related research-intensive university with campuses and accessories throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855, the university has a declared threefold mission of teaching, research, and accessible service. Its advisory mission includes undergraduate, graduate, able and continuing apprenticeship offered through citizen apprenticeship and online delivery. Its University Park campus, the flagship campus, lies aural the Apple of Accompaniment Academy and Academy Township. It has two law schools, Penn Accompaniment Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, amid in Carlisle, 90 afar South of Accompaniment College. The Academy of Medicine is amid in Hershey. Penn Accompaniment has addition 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses amid beyond the state.
Annual accepting at the University Park campus totals added than 45,000 alum and undergraduate students, authoritative it one of the better universities in the United States. It has the world's better dues-paying alumni association. The university's absolute accepting in 2009–10 was about 94,300 beyond its 24 campuses and online through its World Campus.

History

The academy was founded as a degree-granting academy on February 22, 1855, by act P.L. 46, No. 50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High Academy of Pennsylvania. Centre County, Pennsylvania, became the home of the new academy if James Irvin of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, donated 200 acreage (0.8 km2) of acreage – the aboriginal of 10,101 acreage (41 km2) the academy would eventually acquire. In 1862, the school's name was afflicted to the Agronomical Academy of Pennsylvania, and with the access of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts, Pennsylvania called the academy in 1863 to be the state's sole land-grant college. The school's name afflicted to the Pennsylvania Accompaniment Academy in 1874; accepting fell to 64 undergraduates the afterward year as the academy approved to antithesis absolutely agronomical studies with a added archetypal education.
Campuses

University Park

The better of the university's 24 campuses, University Park is about absolutely aural the boundaries of Accompaniment Academy borough, a website called because it is abreast the geographic centermost of the state. With an undergraduate accepting amount of 22 percent, it is the a lot of careful campus in the Penn Accompaniment system, due primarily to the actuality that accepting baddest University Park as their first-choice campus at a far greater amount than the university's added undergraduate campuses. During the abatement 2010 semester, 38,594 undergraduate accepting and 6,223 alum accepting were enrolled at University Park. Of those, 45.3 percent were female and 30.6 percent were not Pennsylvania residents.