About Penn State World Campus

Penn State World Campus:

Launched in 1998, Penn State World Campus is the online campus of the highly respected Pennsylvania State University.

Penn State World Campus offers has an impressive list of online programs, with more than 120 online programs leading to a variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as certificate programs.

Penn State World Campus’s online offerings include degrees in fields such as technology, engineering, education, healthcare, business, and more.

Penn State World Campus enrolls more than 10,000 students. After the initial acceptance into the World Campus, students must receive acceptance into the appropriate college for their chosen major at Pennsylvania State University.

Online students receive instruction from the same world-class faculty members as on-campus students. Online students have access to academic advisers, career services, online tutoring, and library services.

World Campus offers courses in an asynchronous format, so students can complete coursework on their schedule. Students must complete readings, assignments, discussions, and exams by set deadlines. Some of Penn State World Campus’s graduate degree programs require a residency period of from a few days to two weeks in length.

Penn State World Campus graduates earn the same degree as traditional Penn State students. Graduates can join the largest alumni network in the United States.

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes the Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus as a research university with very high research activity.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Pennsylvania State University-University Park #48 in National Universities in its 2015 edition of Best Colleges. The magazine also ranked the university #52 in its listing of Best Global Universities, #41 in its Best Business Schools list, and #33 in the Best Education Schools list. Penn State also tied for #14 in the magazine’s Top Public Schools list.

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 (provided by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai  Tong University) ranked Pennsylvania State University-University Park #58. The university also received a #58 ranking from Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2014–2015.

Princeton Review included Pennsylvania State University-University Park in its 2015 Best 379 Colleges list, while Forbes ranked Penn State #76 among Research Universities.

Penn State’s College of Business ranked #30 in Bloomberg Business’s 2014 Undergraduate Business School Programs list.

A member of the Association of American Universities (an association of excellent North American research universities), Pennsylvania State University received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Pennsylvania State University’s College of Business also received accreditation from the respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.