With the record-breaking success of “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence,” which raised $2.2 billion from 2016 to 2022, philanthropy is helping to sustain the University’s tradition of education, research, and service to communities across the commonwealth and around the globe.
Penn State has made a major change to the application process for its highly ranked online MBA. Applicants are no longer required to submit either their GRE or GMAT test score when applying to the Penn State Online MBA, which is led by the internationally ranked Penn State Smeal College of Business and offered online…
Nearly 1,000 online learners will become Penn State graduates when the University holds its summer 2022 commencement exercises this Saturday, August 13. The number of Penn State World Campus students expected to graduate is 951. The group consists of students graduating with degrees from 88 different graduate and undergraduate degree programs offered online. Here is…
Lourdes Mestre began her collegiate career at 17, but life circumstances led her to place her education on the back burner. “I always wanted to return to college; it was a goal that I knew I had to complete along my journey in life,” Mestre said. “I was just waiting for the right time.” Now,…
Penn State World Campus is now accepting applications for a new doctoral degree program in engineering that focuses on the practical implementation of engineering research and leadership in the field.
Military veterans, reservists, and active-duty service members applying for graduate degree programs at Penn State, including those offered online through Penn State World Campus, will receive a new discount on the application fee.
The Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing has been named a Center of Excellence (COE) by the National League for Nursing (NLN). The college achieved this recognition for “creating environments that promote the pedagogical expertise of faculty,” according to the league, exemplifying the college’s investment in its nurse educators and their professional…
YORK, Pa. — The ways Penn State World Campus supports student success and enrollment growth and how online education can help address emerging society and industry needs were among the topics discussed during the July 21 meeting of the Board of Trustees Committee on Outreach, Development, and Community Relations. Renata Engel, vice provost for Online…
“Never give up.” Those are the driving words that motivated Chris Cope, an alumnus who has blended his education from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology and the College of the Liberal Arts and Penn State World Campus to bring his career full circle. Inspired by his older brother, a police chief…
When Tanya Near, an information technology manager in the Navy, decided to go back to school as a military student, a university’s academic reputation was her top priority. Near could have chosen a university whose tuition rates were set to zero out the costs after the military’s Tuition Assistance Program benefits were applied. However, she…
