EDINBORO
- The university and town that share the Edinboro name were founded by Scottish immigrants.
- Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (EUP) is a public liberal arts university located in Edinboro, PA and one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
- EUP has the largest liberal arts undergraduate degree program in Art in the Northeast.
- The campus maintains the largest community of resident students with severe disabilities attending higher education in Pennsylvania as well as one of the largest in the United States.
HISTORY
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania was founded as the Edinboro Academy, a private training school for Pennsylvania teachers in 1857, by the region’s original Scottish settlers. It is the oldest training institution west of the Allegheny Mountains and the second oldest in all of Pennsylvania.
BASIC FACTS
- Approximately 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students
- 100 degree programs, 57 minors programs
- The Fighting Scots compete in the Pennsylvania Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Divisions I and II
