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Pennsylvania State University College Major
The main campus of Pennsylvania State University has 14 colleges, offering more than 170 majors.

College of Agricultural Sciences, founded in 186 1, is the first agricultural college in the United States. The college has 12 academic project teams and 67 offices, which are distributed in every county of Pennsylvania. The college is considered as the largest and best agricultural research and education base in the United States, with an annual research funding of nearly $90 million. Eighty-five percent of the students come from families with non-agricultural backgrounds, and forty-three percent are girls. The college has made great contributions to the research on the Convention to Combat Desertification and water resources management. Offering specialties: agricultural management, agricultural education, agronomy, rural system management, soil ecology, zoology, environmental settlement development, environmental resource management, food science, forestry, horticulture, infectious diseases, landscape architecture, toxicology, herbal medicine research, biomedicine, fishery research, wood research, etc. The College of Art and Architecture offers a variety of arts, architecture and landscapes. Offering majors: architecture, art, art education, art history, graphic design, comprehensive art, digital image art, landscape art, bachelor of music, music performance, music art, drama music, film and television director, etc.

Smeal Business School was founded in 1953, named after Frankmill. Smir Business School is in a relatively high position among many business schools in the United States, and has trained more than 70,000 graduates since its establishment. The dean is james thomas. Offering majors: accounting, agricultural enterprise management, finance, management, management information system, marketing, risk assessment, logistics research, actuarial science, etc.

School of Communication was established in 1985, offering professional degrees in journalism, media, television and film. The major of mass media plays a very important role in the United States. Douglas Anderson is the dean. Offering majors: advertising, mass media, film, journalism, media research, electronic media, etc.

Penn State Dickinson School of Law was originally an independent law school, which was founded by John Reid at 1834. Joined Penn State University in 2000. The school was originally located in Carlisle, 0/30 km south of Pennsylvania's main campus. In 2000, the school built a new building for the law school on the main campus. The dean is Philip McConaughey. American News listed this law school as the 60th in the United States. Major: law, no undergraduate course.

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The School of Earth and Mineral Sciences, founded in 1896, is the smallest college of Penn State University, but it is also its ace college. The college has five departments: Earth Science, Meteorology, Geography, Materials Engineering and Energy Minerals, and all the majors under each department are in the top position in the United States. The largest meteorological observation center in the United States, the latest institute of materials science and the most advanced remote sensing and GIS technology center are all in this college. The college also cooperates with other scientific research institutions in the United States and around the world to carry out various projects. Five teachers have won the Nobel Prize, including many famous professors, such as Allen Allen, a famous information visualization expert, and Michael E. Mann, a geoscientist, who was named as one of the 25 most famous professors in the world. The dean is William Easterling. Offering majors: Earth science, energy development policy research, energy engineering, environmental engineering, biogeography, human geography, physical geography, general geography, geographic information system, mineral engineering, meteorology, geology, oil and gas engineering, mining engineering, energy business, natural materials science, material engineering, geochemistry, geophysics, seismology, geomagnetism, etc. The College of Education is one of the superior colleges in Pennsylvania, which has made remarkable achievements in special education and early childhood education. Offering majors: preschool education, education policy, basic education, humanities education, special education, world language education, education management and supervision, etc.

The College of Engineering was founded by the old headmaster George Atherton. There are 13 departments, 9,700 students, and the annual funding is 10 billion US dollars. It is one of the top engineering colleges in the world and one of the hottest colleges in universities, and is known as the cradle of engineers. In North America, about one in every 50 engineers comes from this university. 1909, the college opened the first industrial engineering department in the United States; Its construction engineering major has the longest continuous certification time in the United States; 1960, the institute started the research of solid-state electronic technology; 1962, the college established the first interdisciplinary materials science laboratory in the United States. The dean is David Wormeley. Offering specialties: aerodynamics, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, bioengineering, life engineering, chemical engineering, architectural engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electronic engineering, electromechanical technology, engineering science, mass engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear physics engineering, etc. The School of Health and Human Development mainly offers courses and specialties such as anthropology, food science and physique, and is a relatively unpopular college. Offering majors: sports, biological behavior, communication, golf management, health policy, health management, hotel management, human development, family studies, nutrition, entertainment management, park management, human sports, etc.

School of Information Science and Technology, founded in 1999, is a first-class computer science research center in the United States. The aim of the college is to cultivate talents who can use high-tech information technology to lead the society in the new era. The college also strives to support the huge computer and network system of the whole university and the joint campus, and at the same time provides services to solve computer problems for students living in the school. The dean of the college is David Hull. Provide majors: information science, security risk assessment.

The College of Arts is one of the largest colleges in Pennsylvania, offering various majors such as history, politics, literature, philosophy, psychology and religion. The first literature class in American history was taught by Professor Patty in this college. Offering majors: African and African studies, anthropology, archaeology, Asian studies, biological anthropology, classical studies, English literature, Mediterranean civilization studies, media arts, comparative literature, Latin, criminology, economics, history, international relations, Italian, Japanese and Japanese cultural studies, German, Jewish studies, labor relations studies, Latin American studies, legal sociology, philology, humanities and so on. Medical college has its own medical center and research center, which is the best medical service location in central Pennsylvania. Major: medicine, pharmacy, no undergraduate.

The College of Nursing was established in 2008, which is the latest college in the whole school. Set up a major: nursing.

Eberley College of Science, founded in 1859, is the first college in the school, and its founder is Jacob Whiteman. The college created many firsts: Irving Mill was the first person to observe atoms with eyes, Alexander volz Zan was the first person to discover extrasolar planets, and Lu Se Mark was the person to discover the synthesis of progesterone. There are 7 academicians of the National Academy of Sciences, 3 members of the Royal Society of Science, 3 Nobel Prize winners of/kloc-0 and 3 American astronauts. The college also has the largest astronomical telescope in the United States. The dean is Daniel Larson. Offering majors: astronomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, forensic medicine, mathematics, microbiology, physics, general science, natural science, business and statistics. Graduate school, founded in 1922, is one of the largest graduate schools in the United States. Except for medical school and law school, all other graduate students were admitted to Penn State University through this college.

Schreyer Honorary College, founded in 1980, is a scholarship program of Pennsylvania State University. It was named Shirel on 1997, because the school received a $300 million grant from William Shirel, CEO and alumnus of Merrill Lynch. Hillel College, together with Honorary College of Mississippi University and Honorary College of Arizona State University, was rated as the top three honorary colleges in the United States.