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Community Life

Penn State's largest campus is located near the geographic center of the Commonwealth and is the academic home to more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

The community surrounding has the scale of a small Pennsylvania city, and a cosmopolitan feel brought by students and faculty from across the country and around the world. Events year round, from Nittany Lion football in the fall to the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in mid-summer, make this a fun and exciting place to live, work, and raise a family.

To learn more about the University Park and State College community, please see the Visitors' Information on this Web Site (link below). This page provides links to maps as well as the Visitors' Guide to Centre County.