About Shared Programs and Shared Courses
Shared programs are programs that have been designed to be delivered as a consortium across locations, in addition to the originally sponsoring college or campus. Details about how programs are approved and the principles of joint partnership or consortia programs can be found in the Academic Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual.
Shared courses are individual courses shared among two or more campuses. This can be done in the short-term or long-term to address different needs of students and campuses. To learn more, visit the Faculty section of Sharing a Course.
Students
Explore program and course offerings shared among Penn State’s Commonwealth campuses.
Faculty
Develop and teach courses within a shared program for students across the Commonwealth campuses.
Shared Academic Programs:
- Leverage centrally-support resources to allow for program-level consistencies in course design and faculty development.
- Provide resident students a broader range of curricular options and richer experiences as they engage with students and faculty from at least one campus outside of their home campus.
- Combine online, resident, and hybrid courses into a flexible, cohesive, intentional curriculum developed and delivered by faculty.
A successful shared academic degree program operates as one program across academic partners and is delivered across geographic locations. The curriculum is evaluated based on standards applied to all academic programs, and learning outcomes are the same for shared and stand alone programs.