Alumni News
Nate Abdo wanted to gain more knowledge in communications to change his career path. He hadn’t worked in the industry for about 10 years, so he sought an online education to enhance his skills while still being able to balance his full-time job and his family. He found success thanks to a master’s degree in…
Penn State has announced the extension of a special program with the Army that enables senior enlisted military leaders to complete a master’s degree online. The U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy Fellowship has been extended through 2026 through the partnership with the College of Education at Penn State and Penn State World Campus. The fellowship…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Michael O’Neill, a Penn State World Campus adjunct faculty member with the School of Labor and Employment Relations in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Kelley-Willits Award for Excellence in Online Teaching. Dating back to 2011, the award is given annually…
When Lex Shawbaker walked into the Washington Hilton for the ROMBA 2022 conference late last year, she said she immediately felt at ease. Conference organizers had already begun most of the typical conversations about diversity and inclusion that she usually has to initiate. The conference is the world’s largest gathering of LGBTQ+ business students and…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Being a leader is both a goal and a mission that Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology student Daniel Serfass has set out to accomplish. Now student body president for the World Campus Student Government and founder of Penn State World Campus for THON™, Serfass is putting his strongest…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In the early 2000s, some students taking an online acoustic engineering course from Penn State wanted to show their appreciation to their professor for a great semester. They arranged to travel to State College, Pennsylvania, to surprise him. “The students said to their professor, ‘We came to see you and thank…
In the 1990s, professors at Penn State were exploring how they could use the latest technological advancement, the internet, to take what they taught in their classrooms to people all over the globe who would be learning online. These senior, tenured professors at Penn State helped pioneer online learning not just at the University but in the country.
Penn State World Campus’s comprehensive portfolio of online degree programs has been included in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings. The annual rankings, which were released January 24, recognize bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in disciplines like business, engineering, and education, as well as specialties within certain programs. The list…
In 2002, Penn State offered its first online liberal arts degree program. Over the past 20 years, the majors available in the liberal arts have expanded to more than a dozen, including history, law, psychology, economics, and political science.
The fall graduates of the Penn State World Campus Class of 2022 consist of 1,376 students from 95 different programs.