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Why Penn State Wilkes-Barre?
You will love the individualized attention from friendly faculty and staff — all dedicated to your success.
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Honors program designed to meet student needs
At Penn State Wilkes-Barre, each individual’s interests and abilities are nurtured to help the student achieve their full potential. For some students, that means adding more challenges to their academics by joining the honors program at the campus. The program focuses on sustainability and what that means to the campus and the broader world.
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Adult learner credits success to faculty, alumni network
As an adult learner who holds a full-time position with IBM, Ryan Sorber is in a different life situation than many of his classmates, but he said that Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s faculty have been more than willing to work with him to help him succeed.