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 Anesthetic is amid in Hershey. Penn Accompaniment has accession 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 campusesand online through its World Campus.
The university offers added than 160 majors a part of all its campuses and administers $2.03 billion (as of June 30, 2013) in award and agnate funds. The university's analysis expenditures exceeded $753 actor for the 2009 budgetary year and was ranked 9th a part of U.S. universities in analysis income by the National Science Foundation.

Annually, the university hosts the Penn Accompaniment IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), which is the world's better student-run philanthropy.This accident is captivated in the Bryce Jordan Centermost on the University Park campus. In 2014, THON aloft a affairs almanac of $13.3 million.[ The university's contest teams attempt in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively accepted as the Penn Accompaniment Nittany Lions. They attempt in the Big Ten Conference for a lot of sports.

History

Early years
Old Capital c. 1855
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 admission 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.

George W. Atherton became admiral of the academy in 1882, and broadened the curriculum. Shortly afterwards he alien engineering studies, Penn Accompaniment became one of the ten better engineering schools in the nation. Atherton aswell broadcast the advanced arts and agronomics programs, for which the academy began accepting approved appropriations from the accompaniment in 1887. A above alley in Accompaniment Academy has been called in Atherton's honor. Additionally, Penn State's Atherton Hall, a well-furnished and centrally amid abode hall, is called not afterwards George Atherton himself, but afterwards his wife, Frances Washburn Atherton. His grave is in foreground of Schwab Auditorium abreast Old Main, apparent by an engraved marble block in foreground of his statue.

Early 20th century
Students sit alfresco of Pennsylvania Accompaniment Academy (c.1922)
In the years that followed, Penn Accompaniment grew significantly, acceptable the state's better grantor of baccalaureate degrees and extensive an accepting of 5,000 in 1936. About that time, a arrangement of commonwealth campuses was started by Admiral Ralph Dorn Hetzel to accommodate an another for Depression-era accepting who were economically clumsy to leave home to appear college.

In 1953, Admiral Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of then-U.S. Admiral Dwight D. Eisenhower, approved and won permission to drag the academy to university cachet as The Pennsylvania Accompaniment University. Under his almsman Eric A. Walker (1956–1970), the university acquired hundreds of acreage of surrounding land, and accepting about tripled. In addition, in 1967, the Penn Accompaniment Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, a academy of anesthetic and hospital, was accustomed in Hershey with a $50 actor allowance from the Hershey Trust Company
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.

Global
What is acceptable the best kept abstruse at Penn Accompaniment is that there are in fact several campuses in locations alfresco of the United States. Of the 3 all-around locations, the better one is in Australia, with about 1,200 students. There are aswell two abate locations in Germany and China. They anniversary accept about 650-700 students. These campuses accommodate an befalling for accepting to accept college apprenticeship from Penn State, even admitting they are alfresco the United States.

Transportation access
The capital University Park campus is centrally amid at the alliance of Interstate 99 and U.S. Route 322, and is due south of Interstate 80. Before the accession of the Interstates the University was a abbreviate ambit from a Lock Haven - Altoona annex band of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The endure run of continued ambit trains from Buffalo or Harrisburg through Lock Haven was in 1971.Today, the abutting commuter abuse admission is in Lewistown 31 afar to the southeast. The University Park Airport, confined four bounded airlines, is abreast University Park.