Academics

Penn State is an internationally recognized comprehensive university, offering more than 160 undergraduate majors, plus hundreds of possibilities for double majors, minors, options, and other ways to tailor your education to your interests.

Penn State Mont Alto can offer you the best of both worlds, a small campus atmosphere with all the opportunities of a major research institution. Students at Mont Alto have many different academic goals. Some choose to start one of over 160 degree programs here and then complete their program at another Penn State campus, while other pursue both two and four year programs that can be completed right at Mont Alto. Whatever academic goals you may have, Mont Alto can provide you with many options to help you achieve those goals!

Penn State Mont Alto offers the following Bachelor's degree programs:
•  Business
•  English
•  Letters, Arts, and Sciences
•  Human Development and Family Studies
•  Nursing (RN to BS program) 

Additionally, the following associate degrees are offered at the Mont Alto Campus:
•  Business
•  Forest Technology
•  Human Development and Family Studies
•  Information Sciences and Technology
•  Letters, Arts and Sciences
•  Nursing (RN Program)
•  Occupational Therapy
•  Physical Therapist Assistant

That's breadth and depth that you can't find everywhere, and it's one of the things that make Penn State special. Penn State students have the opportunity to explore many fields of study. You might combine your intended major with a very different minor - say, a major in Marketing with a minor in Geography - to prepare yourself for a specific career. Or you might just want to explore fields you've never studied before, and at Penn State you have almost limitless choices.

In addition to the programs listed above, you can start more than 160 other degree programs at Mont Alto and complete those programs at another campus location. For more information on academic departments and programs not listed above, check out the links below to the other academic departments within the university!