University of Pittsburgh vs Penn State University

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Penn State has several satellite campuses and many students whose stats aren’t strong enough for the main campus are redirected to other campuses. They are considered Penn State students too and many eventually transfer to the main campus. Do those ranges reflect all campuses or just the main campus. Pittsburgh does the same thing, but on a much smaller scale. They only have a few satellite campuses.

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<p>Penn State has 19 4-year branch campus not including a large on-line school they brand their “World Campus”. Pitt has four regional campuses, one of which is only a two-year associates degree-only school with a few hundred students. 50% of PSU undergrads are at University Park (main). 75% of Pitt students are at the main campus. </p>

<p>To answer the question, the admissions numbers provided for PSU and Pitt are for their main campuses admission only and only for first-year freshman admissions (not transfers). Both schools consider all students, regardless of location, as students of their universities, and the diplomas do not denote the particular campus. This also goes for 4,600 hundred students at PSU’s on-line school for which there is no real equivalent at Pitt, and for which there are essentially minimal (GED only) admissions requirements.</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“http://admissions.psu.edu/pennstate/campuses/2plus2/]60%[/url”>2+2 Plan - Undergraduate Admissions]60%[/url</a>] of PSU students start off their first two years at a branch and then transfer into the main campus which means most at main did start there. No numbers are available but most Pitt regional campus students do not transfer into the main campus as the three four-year Pitt regionals are structured more as independent schools with a greater breadth of degree programs than many of the Penn State branches.</p>

<p>Combined university admissions numbers are not published by either school. However, I do have comparative university-wide admission numbers for PSU and Pitt for the Fall 2009 academic year (note this does not include PSU’s on-line “world campus” that does not require standardized tests, etc).</p>

<p>System-wide Fall 2009
Pitt (5 campuses, main plus 4 regionals) and PSU (20 campuses, main plus 19 branches)</p>

<p>Enrolled freshman:
Pitt: 5,501
PSU: 15,494</p>

<p>% of applicants admitted:
Pitt: 67.0%
PSU: 72.3%</p>

<p>average SAT 25%-75% (cr+m):
Pitt: 1587 - 1885
PSU 1427 - 1747</p>

<p>Top 10% in High School class:
Pitt: 35.5%
PSU: 25.6%</p>

<p>% with 3.75 GPA or higher
Pitt 49.6%
PSU: 15.3%</p>