Penn State Intercom......February 22 , 2001

Percent
change
2000 1994*
Applications 80,577 (2000) 68,075 18.4
Enrollment 81,270 73,500 10.6
Minority Enrollment 8,576 6,257 37.1
African-American Enrollment 3,459 2,451 41.1
International Student Enrollment 3,603 2,280 58.0
Endowment $1.003 billion $312.3 million 221.2
Annual Fund Raising $170.9 million $82.5 million 107.2
Number of Donors 116,053 100,284 15.7
Alumni Association Members 144,222 122,619 17.6
Annual Budget $2.15 billion $1.51 billion 42.4
State Appropriation $331.9 million $269.1 million 23.3
Research Expenditures $440.3 million (1999-2000) $344.3 million 27.9
Industry-Sponsored Research $70.6 million (1999-2000) $52.4 million 34.7
Patent/Licensing Revenue $3,044,022 $248,979 1122.6
Invention Disclosures 204 102 100.0
Deployment of New Technology
-- Access Accounts 101,000 69,000 (1995) 46.4
-- E-Mail (Number Daily) 2,100,000 300,000 (1995) 600.0
-- Personal Web Accounts 37,000 300 (1995)
12,233.0

In the past five years, Penn State has accomplished the following:

* Reorganization and expansion of the Commonwealth campuses.

* A merger of The Dickinson School of Law with Penn State.

* Establishment of the Schreyer Honors College.

* Creation and launch of the Penn State World Campus, which already includes 155 courses and more than 3,000 students.

* Creation of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, which already has more than 2,000 students.

* Reorganization and expansion of the Division of Outreach and Cooperative Extension.

* Significantly expanded deployment of new information technologies.  

*1994 is the baseline used for this analysis.
Department of Public Information

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