Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania Accompaniment University (commonly referred to as Penn Accompaniment or PSU) is a public, state-related analysis 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 Borough of Accompaniment College and College Township. It has two law schools, Penn Accompaniment Law, on the school's University Park campus, and Dickinson Law, amid in Carlisle. The College of Medicine is amid in Hershey. Penn Accompaniment has addition 19 commonwealth campuses and 5 special-mission campuses amid beyond the state.[10] Penn Accompaniment has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a about adjourned university advised as accouterment a superior of apprenticeship commensurable to those of the Ivy League.
Annual acceptance 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 acceptance in 2009–10 was about 94,300 beyond its 24 campuses and online through its World Campus.
The university offers added than 160 majors a part of all its campuses[16] 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 Center 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.