This campus being a smaller campus of Penn State University is cheaper than University Park. The knowledge you will get here will definitely help for a career or for when you may go to University Park for your last two years. Penn State Altoona offers a couple majors all four years here without going to UP. Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology is an amazing program and only offered at this campus.

Included in your tuition is the use of the computer lab where you get about 150 pages of free printing a semester or a school year. There are also clubs and the use of the gym. Take note do not buy books before you attend the class unless you are absolutely sure you need it; I made that mistake my first year (Also do not buy from the book store if you can avoid it so overpriced).

Even though it's just a smaller branch campus of Penn State, you're still getting a Penn State degree, and paying just a little less for it.

I feel going to altoona is a huge honor. You are paying less than campus and will end up with a Penn state degree which is a school that known world wide.

Penn State is an expensive university, but a Penn State degree is recognized nationally to be a top-tier program.