A mural in the Hetzel Union Building entitled Commonwealth Campuses shows their respective locations.

• Erie

• Brandywine

• Abington

• Great Valley

• Berks

• Fayette

• Mont Alto

• York

• Harrisburg

• Lehigh

• Schuylkill

• Hazleton

• Wilkes-Barre

• Worthington Scranton

• University Park

• Altoona

• DuBois

• Shenango

• Beaver

• New Kensington

• Greater Allegheny

The Pennsylvania State University is a geographically-dispersed university system with campuses located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. While the administrative hub of the university is located at its largest campus, University Park, 19 additional commonwealth campuses enroll roughly 40 percent of Penn State's undergraduate student population.^[1]

[edit] Organization

Under the present administrative structure, enacted by the Penn State Board of Trustees in 2005, the 19 undergraduate campuses (not including University Park and Penn State's special-mission campus, the Pennsylvania College of Technology) are overseen by the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses. Each campus is led by a chancellor (a position that replaced the existing titles of campus dean and campus executive officer) who reports to the Vice President.^[2]

While all 19 campuses are considered part of Penn State's Commonwealth campus system, 14 presently do not have "college" status and are referred to collectively as the University College. These campuses, while having their own chancellor, also report to the Dean of the University College, a position concurrently held by the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses.

[edit] List of Commonwealth campuses

The first two years of education for any Penn State major are available at all campuses, however some majors can only be completed at specific campuses.

[edit] References

• Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. "University College: Campus Descriptions". Faculty Handbook. Penn State University. http://www.psu.edu/dept/prov/fachand/ces5.html. Retrieved 2007-02-10. 
• Bezilla, Michael (1985). "Beyond University Park". Penn State: An Illustrated History. http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/bezillapshistory/083s12.htm. Retrieved 2007-02-10. 
• Campuses of Penn State Accessed 23 November 2005

[edit] External links

• Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses