<p>Yes, PSU can be challenging to get to U Park as a frosh. TONS of kids going to branches for a year or two. All have same degree … Penn State.</p>
<p>None of these places are what I’d deem “prestigious” institutions though, no matter how one slices it. Mass merchandising at a bargain sale pricetag. </p>
<p>That said however, the fact so many attend them and places like them all over the country, illustrates highed ed’s ultimate inablility to provide evidence that theirs is any lesser education than those with premiums pricetags … unlike the automobile business where everyone has figured out why it makes all kind of sense to pay lots more for a Toyota than a Chevette or Pinto.</p>
<p>And I can hear them saying, “Hey Dad, what’s a Pinto?” “Well son, it’s sorta like PSU-DuBois.”</p>