Did you know that there are over 4,000 international students currently enrolled at Penn State? Amazingly, there are also about 200,400 international students currently enrolled in universities across America today. These students play a major roll in today’s economy. Annually, NAFSA: Association of International Educators calculates the economic impact of international students and their dependents on […]
In 2009, international admits to graduate schools have declined, a first in five years, according to a Businessweek article published earlier this week. Though the report found a 4% increase in international applications, the total number of international applications received this year is still below 2003 application levels at many of the 253 schools that […]
We’ll be picking up the pace in the next couple of weeks as fall term nears. The only organization more excited than Onward State for the return of school is Anheuser-Busch INBev, proud producers of Penn State students’ choicest diet supplement. Stimulus package, much? The Inquirer asked Joe Paterno five questions. Best quote: “That phone […]
All in, the average underclassman will see a $1,040 increase in his final bill this year. This is about at 4.8% increase in total cost from last year. But, if you recall one of our earlier posts, Penn State reported a “record number of donations in fiscal 2008-09.” The increase might not be as impressive […]
Penn State students have followed with varying degrees of interest this summer’s budget battles: one between the Democrats and Republicans within Pennsylvania’s state government and another between Governor Ed Rendell and Graham Spanier. The former was over the state’s budget and the latter an argument about the very identity of Penn State: are we public or […]