The Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania, Founded by George Rapp, A. D. 1805.

Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origination to a group of Baptists from White Deer Valley Baptist Church who deemed it " desirable that a Literary Institution should be established in Central Pennsylvania, embracing a High School for male pupils, another for females, a College and also a Theological Institution.

Founded in 1997 as Albany Anthrocon ( AAC ) in New York State, with a membership of about 500, the convention moved to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2000 ; then to a larger hotel, the Adams Mark, on the outskirts of Philadelphia in 2001.

Founded in 1989 by University of Pittsburgh student David E. Schwencke, Full Service Network is a Western Pennsylvania facility based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier ( CLEC ) providing services which include High Speed Internet and Broadband Phone Service.

Founded by Carl Stotz in 1939 as a three-team league in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Little League Baseball encourages local volunteers to organize and operate Little League programs that are annually chartered through Little League International.

Founded in 1800 by Swiss immigrant Joseph Johns, Johnstown began to prosper with the building of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal in 1836 and the arrival of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Cambria Iron Works in the 1850s.

Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts in five countries as QVC US, QVC UK, QVC Germany, QVC Japan and QVC Italy to 200 million households.

Founded in 1765, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first school of medicine in the United States.

Founded in 1825 the Committee was formed at the request of Senator William Findlay from Pennsylvania.

Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997.

Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the home of its North American headquarters, Bachmann is today part of the Kader group, who model products are made at a Chinese Government joint-venture plant in Dongguan, China.

Founded in 1904, it is headquartered in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA near Imperial.

Founded in 1883 by Captain John Baptiste Ford and John Pitcairn, Jr., as the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Creighton, Pennsylvania ; the company changed its name to PPG Industries, Inc., on 19 December 1968 to show its diverse offerings.

Founded by Bishop Leo Haid in 1876, it is the daughter abbey to St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and mother abbey to St. Leo's Abbey in Tampa, Florida as well as Mary, Mother of the Church Abbey in Richmond, Virginia.

Founded in 2001 to address Central Pennsylvania ’ s need for increased opportunities for study leading to careers in science, technology, engineering and math ( STEM ) fields, Harrisburg University is a private institution that produces graduates in science and technology disciplines.

Founded in 1812, Lycoming College is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1862, the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club is one of the oldest continually running glee clubs in the United States and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Founded as an alternative to the existing theatrical and dramatic outlets at the University of Pennsylvania, Mask and Wig has presented comedy, music, and dancing to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and audiences across the country.

Founded on March 16, 1920 at the Duquesne Gardens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the organization is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has nearly 600, 000 registered members.

Founded in 1983 by retired U. S. Senators Frank Church of Idaho ( a Democrat ) and Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania ( a Republican ), the Center for Responsive Politics aims to create a more educated voter, a more involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.

Founded on March 5, 1839, as the Farmville Female Seminary Association, Longwood University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is one of the oldest public institutions of higher education for women in the United States.

Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the first historically black female institution of higher education to receive its collegiate charter in 1924.

Founded in 1831, LaGrange began as the female educational institution, LaGrange Female Academy.

Founded in 1835, the school began as a church-supported school for young women called Livingston Female Academy.

Founded in 1854 as the New Danville Masonic Female Academy near Kilgore, Lon Morris College is the oldest existing two-year college in Texas.

Founded in 1814 by Ebenezer Foote as the Albany Female Academy, AAG is the oldest independent girls day school in the United States.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

The Dartmouth describes itself as " America's Oldest College Newspaper, Founded 1799.

Founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902, it was later renamed to share the name of the city in the 1930s.

Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or " Oxy " as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast.

Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896 .< ref >

Founded in 1935, the College of Education has a long and distinguished history of preparing ethical and reflective professionals.

Founded in 1969, it traces its roots back to its two earlier predecessor organizations, St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College, founded in 1855 and 1860 respectively.

Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.

Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and coeducational, and throughout its existence Hiram College has sustained this egalitarian tradition of educating men and women from diverse backgrounds.

Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist John Gregg Fee ( 1816 – 1901 ), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century.

The first graduate school of business in the United States was the Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees ( masters ) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebearer of the modern MBA degree.

Founded as the Missouri Dental College in 1866, the Washington University School of Dental Medicine was the first dental school west of the Mississippi River and the sixth dental school in the U. S. The school closed in 1991.

Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its President Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.

Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy.

Founded in 1836, the University at first comprised just two colleges: University College London, which previously had no official chartered status and did not apply religious tests to its students, and King's College, which had been chartered since 1829 and which admitted only members of the Church of England.

Founded in 1889 as the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for Women, Georgia College and State University has since grown to become the state's premier public liberal arts university.

Founded in 1891, the university is composed of the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Business & Public Management, College of Education and Organizational Leadership, College of Law, and a Regional Campus Administration that oversees seven regional campuses.

Founded in May 1996, the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of three medical schools in the state of Kentucky.