- Penn State Behrend ranks among the top public colleges and
universities in Pennsylvania for student-to-faculty ratio, SAT scores,
first-year student retention rate, and graduation rate—according to
data published by U.S. News & World Report.
- We're part of the University ranked first by U.S. corporate
recruiters for producing graduates prepared to succeed, according to a
Wall Street Journal survey.
- We were the first Penn State location outside University Park to
gain four-year college status and today more than 70 percent of our
students start and finish their Penn State degrees at Behrend.
- Ninety-seven percent of our graduating seniors would recommend us
to friends or family members considering college (based on annual student survey data).
- We have a student-to-faculty ratio of 16:1, an average class size
of 26, and 97 percent of seniors call the opportunities to interact
with faculty "exceptional."
- Our School
of Engineering has been ranked among the top 50 undergraduate
engineering programs in the country by U.S. News & World
Report.
- Our
MBA program in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business
is consistently ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News
& World Report and The Princeton Review.
- We have the only MBA program in the Erie area accredited by AACSB
International, the premier accrediting agency for schools of business
worldwide.
- We were the first academic institution in the country to bring its
schools of business and engineering together under a single roof for
collaborative learning.
- Our School of
Science annually produces more graduates with American Chemical
Society certification than other comparably sized institutions.
- Degree offerings in our School of Humanities and
Social Sciences include one of the few creative writing programs in
the country to offer the
B.F.A. degree with intensive study in poetry and prose
writing.
- We annually award more than $250,000 in undergraduate research opportunities.
Our undergraduate research and creative accomplishments conference has
become a model for institutions across the country.
- We are a partner in Knowledge Park, a 200-acre
research and development area on the eastern edge of campus, that
provides internships for students in business, engineering, and
information technology companies.
- Penn State Behrend has won the
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) President’s Cup
nine out of the ten years it has been awarded. The cup is given
annually to the AMCC member school with the strongest overall athletic
program.
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