The University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State University are not the same school.

The University of Pennsylvania, referred to as UPenn, is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State, PSU for short), located in State College (State College), Pennsylvania, USA, is a world-renowned top research university.

The University of Pennsylvania is one of the world's top private research universities and one of the eight famous Ivy League schools; Pennsylvania State University is a national first-level university in the United States and a world-famous public university.

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Geographical environment of Pennsylvania State University

Before the establishment of the school, both Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, the second largest city, wanted to build the school in their The two cities are close to each other, so the two cities are very noisy. Finally, the governor intervened and allowed the school to be built at the intersection of Pennsylvania's geometric diagonals. Therefore, the school was built in the valley of the Appalachian Mountains, and later the small city "State College" was established.

Many people think that the geographic geometric center of Pennsylvania is under a planetarium on the square in front of Old Main, the main building of the school. In fact, the geometric center of Pennsylvania is located on the east side of the campus in a wetland reserve under the jurisdiction of the school. , about 5 miles from the planetarium. The school has a huge area of ??17,023 acres, accounting for about half of the entire state college.

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