Need Information on Penn State

obwian22
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:40:01 +0000

Etuck24, I find your lack of information quite amusing. " PSU branch campuses for the most part aren’t worth anything " 60% of all Penn State students either start out or finish at their local branch. If they branch campuses weren’t worth anything as you say, nobody would be attending them. Yes it is true, a lot of students transfer from branch campuses but a lot of students also remain to graduate from them and there is nothing wrong with that. This is the problem with UP students like you, thinking attending a branch campus is a bad or negative thing. Yes its true UP is the most ranked campus, but that doesn’t mean that the Branch campuses have any no value to them! However, it is true that some PSU branch campuses are not up to academic par to normal standards however some are very strong academically and career wise. I attended Penn State Erie for 2 years before transferring to UP. I can give you multiple examples of how PSU Erie is either the same quality if not better than some instances at UP campus. Academics at this campus were very strong. Our science and physics departments were more stringent and harder than the entry level physics courses at UP. I had friends that went to UP that did phys 211 and 212 and I took the same course at Erie. The courses in material in exam difficultness were exactly the same. They did a study a little while back where how does our physics courses compare to UP preparation physics courses. they gave an final exam Erie and the exact same final exam at UP. What was interesting to note was that Erie students had 5% more higher marks on the exam than UP students! This is because physics at Erie was based on a MIT scale model rather than a lecture setting and was proven more effective!

Other than academics, I have received fantastic internship and research opportunities at Erie and I would never had received those starting my first 2 years at UP. There is just so much more potential for students attending this campus.

So before you go posting branch campuses are aren’t worth anything, maybe you should stop being soo ignorant and look at the facts that some students prefer to start at branch campuses and finish rather than UP.

Cheers Mate!