Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, called Penn State, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania in the United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania and was named the first land-grant university of the state eight years later. Its primary campus, University Park, is in State College in Centre County. It is also a sea-grant, space-grant and sun-grant university, is a member of the Association of American Universities, and is classified as a very high research activity doctoral university. It maintains a College of Medicine in Hershey and two law schools.