Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University, commonly called Penn State or PSU, is a public, state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. It began in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania and was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later. Its primary campus, University Park, lies in State College and College Township in Centre County. The university enrolls more than 89,000 students across its campuses, holds sea-grant, space-grant and sun-grant designations, is classified among the doctoral universities with very high research activity and belongs to the Association of American Universities. In this atlas it appears as the academic home of researchers who study crime and sentencing, including Jeffery Ulmer, who directs its Criminal Justice Research Center.