Penn State University College of Agricultural Sciences

The first of the colleges established at Pennsylvania State University, the College of Agricultural Sciences awarded the nation’s first baccalaureate degrees in agriculture in 1861. With 12 academic units and 67 cooperative extension offices, one in each of Pennsylvania’s counties, the college is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier institutions for agricultural research and education programs. In 1855, before the College of Agriculture Sciences, it was a high school known as The Farmer's High School run by Evan Pugh. Pugh help transform the Farmer's High School into the College of Agriculture Sciences by supporting Congress to pass the Morrill Land-Grant Act in 1863. As a result, government receives money from the sales of...