The Pennsylvania State University is the only college in Pennsylvania that offers a nuclear engineering degree. pipelines on power plant image by Andrei Merkulov from Fotolia.com Only one college in Pennsylvania offers a degree in nuclear engineering: the Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. However, students in Pennsylvania who wish to earn a nuclear engineering degree may take the first two years of the nuclear engineering major at any of Penn State’s commonwealth campus locations. Penn State’s Program Penn State houses its nuclear engineering degree program in its College of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. An undergraduate student may apply for a concurrent or double major in mechanical engineering to supplement his nuclear engineering major. Penn State is one of very few universities that has an operating research reactor on campus, the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor. Undergraduate nuclear engineering students use the reactor in two laboratory courses and have the