A Dynamic Penn State College
At
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, more than 4,400 students benefit from
the opportunities and prestige of a major research university set
in the atmosphere of student-centered college. Students can choose
from thirty-three baccalaureate
majors
and twenty-two minors, six associate degree programs, and two
graduate programs: a Master of Business
Administration (M.B.A.), and a Master of Project Management (M.P.M.).
Among
our
notable
distinctions, the 2004 National Survey of High School Guidance
Counselors ranks Penn State Behrend among the Top Sixty Schools in the
country in its Best Value for Your Tuition Dollar category.
Students and faculty enjoy the beauty of the
college's 725-acre campus located only minutes away from the heart of
Pennsylvania's fourth-largest city. Penn State Behrend has offered
four-year degrees for thirty years.
As a Land Grant institution, the college is also uniquely
positioned to advance Northwestern Pennsylvania's economic and social
welfare. Students engage in the college's mission of teaching, research, and service by regularly participating
in applied research and service projects. A recent addition to campus
is Knowledge Park at Penn State Erie. This 200-acre research and development
park houses knowledge-based companies that benefit from the site's
superior technological infrastructure and Penn State's strengths in
applied research and technology transfer.
Campus
life is enriched by more than 100 clubs and organizations, ranging
from the Astronomy Club to the Behrend Beacon to the Society of
Women Engineers. In addition to twenty-one varsity teams (ten for men and
eleven for women), Behrend offers nineteen intramural sports. Modern
facilities include an indoor athletics and recreation center, library and academic
building, engineering complex, chapel and carillon, observatory, child care center, and
baseball and softball complex. On-campus housing for 1,650 students
includes two new residence halls.
Penn State Behrend
Offers Students Impressive Set of New Facilities
Penn State Behrend is a dynamic campus college in the Penn State
system. Our story of success in recent years includes development of
these new facilities:
-- A $10.2 million athletics and recreation center.
-- Knowledge Park at Penn State
Erie, which
provides area residents and students job opportunities with leading-edge
technology companies. Located within Knowledge Park is Penn State Behrend's nationally accredited Child Care Center.
-- Two state-of-the-art residence
halls.
-- A multi-faith chapel and carillon.
-- An observatory and
telescope.
-- A $900,000
baseball and softball complex.
-- The new $30 million Research and Economic Development Center. The center houses the Black School of Business and the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology under one (very large) roof.
Learn more about our distinctions.