Penn State Abington
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1950 |
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Parent institution
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Pennsylvania State University |
| Chancellor | Damian Fernandez |
| President | Eric J. Barron |
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Administrative staff
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107 full-time |
| Undergraduates | 3,952 |
| Postgraduates | 0 |
| Location | Abington, PA, USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Mascot | Nittany Lion |
| Affiliations | NEAC (NCAA Division III) |
| Website | abington.psu.edu |
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Penn State Abington is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in the Abington section of Abington Township. The campus is set on 45 acres (180,000 m2) of wooded land, and includes a duck pond, wooded trails and many species of hardwood tree. The roughly 3,952 undergraduate students are taught by a full-time faculty staff of 107 professors, with the average class size being 24 students. Students participate in a wide variety of activities and many types of intramural and intercollegiate sports.
Several degree options are available at Penn State Abington. Students may complete the first two years of any of 160 Penn State baccalaureate programs at the Abington campus, and then change assignment to the University Park campus of Penn State to complete their degree. Two associate degree programs, 18 baccalaureate degree programs, and continuing education programs designed for adult students are also available. Graduate degree programs are not offered at Penn State Abington. The athletics program has been granted full NCAA Division III status.
Penn State Abington also offers an Undergraduate Research opportunity known as ACURA (Abington College Undergraduate Research Activities). This opportunity enables students to work closely with a professor on a research project to broaden their educational experience. Within this program, students have the opportunity to present their research findings at a local or national research conference, and students also have the opportunity to publish a research paper in an academic journal as a co-author with their research mentor.
The Penn State Abington campus was not originally a Penn State campus. The origins of the Abington campus begin with Jay Cooke, a banker who had financed the Union during the Civil War, and The Chestnut Street Female Seminary, a Philadelphia school for girls between the ages of 12 through 18 that opened in 1850. With increasing enrollment, The Chestnut Street Female Seminary needed to find a campus that could accommodate the larger student body.
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