Edinboro University is a public liberal arts university located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA and one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The town is named after Edinburgh, Scotland. It is also not to be confused with the University of Edinburgh. Edinboro University is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSACS). It has more than 8,000 enrolled students spread between the 585 acre (2.4 km²) main campus as well as the Porreco Center in Erie and the Buba Center in Meadville facility. The main campus is located only 18 miles (29 km) from Erie, Pennsylvania and within 100 miles (160 km) of the educational and major population centers of Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. The main campus has 42 buildings on a spacious 585-acre (2.37 km) campus which includes a 5-acre (20,000 m) lake, open fields and woods, six on-campus residence halls for approximately 2,000 students, and the modern seven-story Baron-Forness Library with more than 490,000 bound volumes and 1.4 million microform units. Edinboro University offers 100 degree programs and 57 minors.