Resident Education
The Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State is a unique interdisciplinary program leading to master’s and doctoral degrees in acoustics. The program is focused entirely on acoustics, a subject touching many diverse disciplines such as architectural acoustics, biomedical ultrasound, noise and vibration control, transducer design, underwater acoustics, signal processing, aeroacoustics, structural vibration, speech and communication, outdoor propagation, computational methods, and much more.
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Distance Education
The Distance Education Program was created in 1987 to give full-time working professionals the opportunity to earn a Master of Engineering in Acoustics or to enhance individual knowledge by taking selected courses while continuing to work full-time. The Distance Education Program utilizes video streaming broadcasts of our graduate course lectures during the spring and fall semesters.
Graduate Degrees
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Penn State acoustics offers online certificate program for career advancement
The Penn State Graduate Program in Acoustics is now offering three graduate certificate options, enabling working professions, as well as engineering graduate students in other discipline areas, the opportunity to further their careers by upskilling or reskilling. The program recently rounded out its first academic year, having matriculated its first class in the fall of 2025.
