PA Education

Bucknell, located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1846. Bucknell has 3400 undergraduates and 150 graduate students. Aside from an undergraduate liberal arts program, Bucknell offers professional programs in engineering, business, education, and music. The website contains information about the school, visiting, and applying.

CMU, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a private University with 10,000 students and 4,000 faculty. It was established in 1900 and named for Andrew Carnegie, the philanthropist who came from Pittsburgh. The school is well known for its technology departments and drama school. In Sports it has 17 Division III sports teams.

Lehigh, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1865. There are approximately 4500 undergraduates, 2000 graduate students, and 614 faculty members. LeHigh offers a BS-MD program with Drexel University, BS-DDS with UPenn, and BS-OD program with SUNY College of Optometry. There are fraternities, sororities and 25 Division I sports. Information about applying and visiting on the website.

Penn State, founded in 1855, is located in State College, Pennsylvania. It is the State-related, land-grant University with 24 campuses. The main campus has almost 37,000 undergraduates and 6300 graduate students. The school participates in The Big Ten Conference and NCAA Division 1-A for most sports.

Penn is a highly selective, private, ivy league university, located in Philadelphia. Penn has nearly 10,000 students and 4,200 faculty members. Besides the School of Arts and Sciences, Penn is home to the Wharton School of Business, a Law School, a Medical School, a Veterinary School, a Nursing School, and the Annenberg School of Communications.

The University was founded in 1787 as a small private school called Pittsburgh Academy. It became part of the State system in 1966. There are approximately 34,000 students. It is also home to the University of Pittsburgh Press, a well-known academic publisher.