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  • A beautiful 51-acre hillside commuter campus overlooking the historic city of York
  • Seven major buildings (including the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center), athletic fields, tennis courts, and several acres of woodland
  • Suburban metropolitan area of more than 442,000

Programs Offered

  • Twelve Baccalaureate Degrees
  • Eight baccalaureate minors with additional ones available depending on course work available
  • First two years of more than 275 Penn State academic programs
  • Five associate degrees, with nearly 100 percent job placement
  • Master of Education in Teaching and Curriculum, other graduate courses and professional development programs for educators
  • Credit, noncredit, and certificate continuing education courses
  • Day, evening, and Saturday classes

Students

  • About 742 students, as of fall 2021
  • Our campus community includes both traditional (18–24) and adult (24 or older) students
  • 90 percent commuters, 10 percent in off-campus housing
  • 96 percent of students live within forty miles

Financial Aid

  • 76 percent of eligible students receive some form of aid (loans, scholarships, grants, work-study)
  • $1.5 million awarded

Faculty

  • 85 full-time and adjunct faculty
  • Student to Faculty Ratio 11 to 1
  • Average class size of 15

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  • More than twenty student clubs and organizations
  • Six collegiate sports

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Situated on 51 beautiful hillside acres overlooking the historic city of York in south-central Pennsylvania, Penn State York offers a small, engaging college environment with all the resources of a major research university.
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