Penn State Fayette

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus

Type	Public
Established	1965
Parent institution	Pennsylvania State University
Chancellor	Dr. W. Charles Patrick
President	Eric J. Barron
Academic staff	50
Students	1,000
Location	Lemont Furnace, PA, United States
Colors	Navy Blue and White
Affiliations	PSUAC (USCAA)
Mascot	Nittany Lion
Website	fayette.psu.edu

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus is a Commonwealth Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. The campus boasts a Penn State academic education in a small-campus setting, featuring state-of-the-art facilities in a convenient and safe atmosphere, with easy access to urban offerings and the outdoor activities of the mountains. Fayette maintains an outstanding faculty as well as a learning center with tutors and resources to help students succeed.

Set among the scenic Laurel Highlands on what was once an 1800s-era farmstead, Penn State Fayette is located in Lemont Furnace between Uniontown and Connellsville, Pennsylvania (along Route US 119), approximately 60 minutes southeast of Pittsburgh and 30 minutes north of Morgantown, West Virginia.

Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus serves students from the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania covering a five-county area that includes all or parts of Fayette, Greene, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland counties. The campus also enrolls students from many other states and even maintains a small international student population. Students at the Penn State Fayette campus can complete the first two years of most of the 160+ majors available in the Penn State system along with six bachelor's degrees and eight associate degrees that can be completed entirely at the Penn State Fayette campus.

Penn State founded an education center in the area in 1934, as part of an initiative to provide localized learning facilities that could grant associate degrees or allow students to complete the first two years of a bachelor's degree without the expense of living in University Park. However, the center was closed in the 1940s due to World War II. In the 1950s, the commonwealth campus system was established and local branch campuses, each fully integrated into the Penn State system, were established across the state. Fayette Campus opened in 1965; originally it was housed in rented space in downtown Uniontown, before relocating to its current site three years later.

In 2004, the campus was named for Robert E. Eberly, a wealthy Pittsburgh natural gas speculator who endowed his fortune to Western Pennsylvania higher education.