State College

American  

noun

1. a city in central Pennsylvania.

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• State College vs. university

Example Sentences

"It was incredibly unlikely it was going to go forward anyway, because the amount of financial resources and man hours necessary to take on this case didn't seem to be within the scope of what Peter Skandalakis had," said Anthony Michael Kries, a professor at the Georgia State College of Law.

From BBC

“He’s got his work cut out for him,” said Martin Lewison, associate professor of business management for Farmingdale State College in New York, who is also a Six Flags shareholder.

From Los Angeles Times

In peacetime, it is a small town the size of Sarasota, Fla., or State College, Pa.

From The Wall Street Journal

Benjamin Marks, first author on the paper and a medical and public health student at the Penn State College of Medicine, cautioned that while higher melanoma rates appear in areas with more cropland and herbicide use, the findings do not prove that chemicals used on crops such as corn, soybeans and grains directly cause cancer.

From Science Daily

Other co-authors include Jiangang Liao, professor of public health sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, and Camille Moeckel, a fourth-year medical student and research associate at Penn State College of Medicine.

From Science Daily