Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, founded in 1855, is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvanias sole land-grant institution and its largest public university. Penn States land-grant mission embraces teaching, research, and public service in order to support the citizens of the Commonwealth, collaborating with industrial, educational, and agricultural partners to create, disseminate, integrate, and apply knowledge that is valuable to society. Penn State Extension gives people in Pennsylvanias 67 counties access to the Universitys resources and expertise. In addition, twenty-four campuses, 17,000 faculty and staff, 100,000 students, a teaching hospital that provides care to more than a million patients a year, over one-half million active alumni, an online World Campus that empowers anyone to pursue an educationanytime, anywhere, and the largest student-run philanthropic organization on the planet are what makes Penn State... Penn State.