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Simon Award Winner

Penn State has been named a recipient of the 2025 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, the highest recognition in the field of international education, awarded by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

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Penn State's Global Excellence

Penn State is a world-class land-grant research institution with over $1.44bn in research expenditures, serving 88,000 students across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our Global land-grant mission impacts our communities, from local to global.

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Simon Award Winner 2025

Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization

Fulbright Scholars

Annual Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars (#2 in 2024-25)

Ranked #4 in the U.S. for Sustainability

Q.S. World Sustainability Rankings

Ranked #4 in the U.S. for Global Impact

Times Higher Education Impact Rankings

Top 25

Hosting International Students (9,000+)

Top 20

Sending Students Abroad (nearly 3,000)

Top 40 Institutions for Innovation

Institute for Scientific Information

Two UNESCO Chairs

One of only two (2) U.S. universities with multiple Chairs

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