Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies is a special mission campus graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, located in Malvern, 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia in the United States. Academic programs include education, engineering, MBA, and management. Classes are geared toward working adults, and meet evenings and Saturdays in seven and fourteen week sessions. Penn State Great Valley, founded in 1963 to provide graduate engineering programs to employees of local businesses, was housed in a rented school building in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and... was known as the King of Prussia Graduate Center. Education programs were added in the late 1960s and, in 1974, the center began offering courses off-site at area businesses. In 1978, the center moved to an old elementary school building in Radnor, Pennsylvania. In 1982 the center moved back to King of Prussia and became the King of Prussia Center for Graduate Studies and Continuing Education. In 1987, the university acquired 8.5 acres within the Great Valley Corporate Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
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