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=**__Penn State University__**= =[|__www.collegeboard.com__]-= 1. Out-of-State tuition and fees: $27,114 2. Room and board: $9,030 3. Estimated personal expenses: $2,916 4. Transportation expense: $594 Required Units- 5. English: 4 credits, Foreign Language: 2 credits, Math: 3 credits, Science: 3 credits, Social Studies: 3 credits. Most Popular Majors: 10. Associate Degrees- Liberal Arts: 48%, Business/Marketing: 16%, Family and Consumer Sciences: 13%, Health Professions: 12%, Computer and Information Sciences: 8%. 11. Bachelor Degrees- Business/Marketing: 18%, Engineering: 13%, Communications/Journalism: 9%, Computer and Information Sciences: 7%, Social Sciences: 7%, Education: 5%. 12. Activities Available- Campus ministries, choral groups, concert band, dance, drama, film society, yearbook, Jazz band Marching band, Television station 13. Sports- Archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, boxing, cricket, cross-country, diving, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, sailing, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, weightlifting, and wrestling. 14. Housing options: Coed Housing, Men's Housing, Women's Housing, Apartments For Married Students, Apartments For Single Students, Fraternity/Sorority Housing, Special Housing For Disabled Students, Special Housing For International Students. 15. 36% of all undergraduates live in college housing. 16. Campus: suburban setting, large town, residential campus, geographical location: 90 miles from Harrisburg. 17. Size: -Total undergrads: 38,630 -First-time degree-seeking freshmen: 6,560 -Degree-seeking undergrads: 37,855 -Graduate enrollment: 6,568 18. Admission requirements: -Required: SAT Reasoning Test or ACT 19. Very important admission factors: -Standardized Test Scores -Academic GPA 20. Important admission factors: -Rigor of secondary school record =[|www.psu.edu]-= 1. Founded in 1985 2. Atmitted it's first class in 1859 3. The school mascot is the Nittany Lions 4. The origins of "Nittany" are a bit obscure, but most likely the word comes from a Native American term meaning, "single mountain." The description applied to the mountain that separates what is today Penns Valley and Nittany Valley, with its western end overlooking the community of State College and Penn State's University Park campus. The first colonial settlers in the 1700s adopted this term, or a variation of it, in formally naming Nittany Mountain. 5. Penn State is a multicampus public research university that educates students from Pennsylvania, the nation and the world, and improves the well being and health of individuals and communities through integrated programs of teaching, research, and service. 6. Penn State is one of the leading comprehensive universities in the United States. 7. Penn State is not owned and operated by the state government. 8. The University sets its own tuition levels and other charges and retains the resulting income for operations. 9. It controls its own purchasing decisions 10. Penn State enrolls more than 90,000 students and confers about 14,000 degrees annually 11. About half of these students are enrolled on the main campus at University Park. 12. One in eight Pennsylvanians with a college degree is a Penn State graduate. 13. One in 122 Americans with a college degree is a Penn State graduate. 14. More than a thousand corporations and government agencies conduct employment interviews annually at the University Park campus. 15. They offer music nights, reasearch institutes, fund raising, and study programs. 16. The study programs are very helpful if you get behind. 17. The marching band at Penn State is one of the most well known band. Penn State was the first American institution of higher education to.... 18. Award baccalaureate and graduate degrees in agriculture. 19. Establish collegiate-level instruction in ice cream manufacture, a program that has helped make the University an internationally recognized center for research in frozen confections. 20. Establish the nation’s first baccaluareate curriculum in fuel science.