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University City, Philadelphia. University City is the easternmost portion of West Philadelphia, encompassing several Philadelphia universities. It is situated directly across the Schuylkill River from Center City. The University of Pennsylvania was instrumental in coining the name University City as part of a 1950s urban renewal and ...
Penn Medicine station (formerly University City station) is a train station in the University City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the SEPTA Regional Rail system. The station serves the area around the University of Pennsylvania, and is located at South Street and Convention Avenue. Located on the West Chester Branch, it serves the ...
Spring Garden College (1851–1992) – baccalaureate university in Philadelphia. United Wesleyan College (1921–1990) – Bible college affiliated with the Wesleyan Church, located in Allentown. Villa Marie College (1925–1989) – baccalaureate Roman Catholic university in Erie; merged with Gannon University.
www.upenn.edu. The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn[note 3] or UPenn, [note 4] is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and ...
pennmedicine.org /presby. Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, sometimes called Presby, is a hospital located in the University City section of West Philadelphia. It was founded by Reverend Ephraim D. Saunders in 1871 and formally joined the University of Pennsylvania Health System in 1995. Penn Presbyterian is spread out on a campus bounded by ...
Saint Joseph's University (SJU or St. Joe's) is a private Jesuit university in Philadelphia and Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The university was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1851 as Saint Joseph's College. Saint Joseph's is the seventh oldest Jesuit university in the United States and the sixth largest university in Philadelphia.
Drexel University. Holy Family University. La Salle University. Moore College of Art and Design. Peirce College. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College. Saint Joseph's University. Strayer University, Center City Campus.
The University City Main Campus is located just west of the Schuylkill River. The campus reaches: from Chestnut St. in the south to Powelton Ave in the north; and from the Amtrak rail yard in the east to 34th St. in the west. The campus originally consisted of only the Main Building, dedicated in 1891, and its additions.