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Pennsylvania Institute Of Technology

School Overview:

School Notes:

• The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology was founded in April 1953 by Walter R. Garrison, a practicing engineer. He recognized the need for practicing engineers to perform stress analysis in the aircraft and civil/architectural fields. An office and classroom were secured in Upper Darby, PA, and classes began in mathematics, stress analysis and other technical subjects. By 1962 students and classes had outgrown those rented facilities and P.I.T. purchased larger facilities in Upper Darby. P.I.T. remained in Upper Darby for almost 20 years until the growth of the programs and students necessitated a move in 1982 to today's lovely, spacious, 14 acre Rose Valley campus. P.I.T. recently renovated nine classrooms to accommodate the addition of its Allied Health division.
• P.I.T. offers two-year Associate's Degrees in technical, business and medical programs which prepare students for immediate entry into the workforce or transfer to a four-year college or university. In addition, P.I.T. offers an Accelerated Business degree that can be completed within one year via both “brick and click.”
• Degree and Certificate programs at P.I.T. are recognized, supported, and developed with the help of business, industry, and other institutions. P.I.T. offers students nine Associate's Degree programs and a number of certificate programs in Engineering Technology, Allied Health, Information Technology and Business.
• The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. It also is approved as a two-year College by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
• Profile last updated: 11/18/2009.

In the News:

• Democrats look to unseat GOP in Parkside (Delaware County Times)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 05:24:38 am
  PARKSIDE — Only Republicans have been elected or appointed to council in this borough for at least two decades.
• Nunsense’ fundraiser will open P.I.T.’s new arts center Sunday (Delaware County Times)
  posted on May 31, 2009 at 10:28:58 am
  MEDIA —- A fundraising performance of “Nunsense” —- produced by the Hedgerow Theatre —- comes to the Community Performing Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology (CPAC at P.I.T.). this Sunday at 3 p.m.

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