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The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known 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 first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained ...
University of Pennsylvania: Private (non-profit) Philadelphia: PA: ... West Virginia University: Public: Morgantown: WV: Yale University: Private (non-profit) New ...
Public (Virginia Community College System) Junior college: SACS: 1968 6,018 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Blacksburg: Public Research university: SACS: 1872 38,170 Virginia State University: Petersburg: Public Masters University: SACS: 1882 4,648 Virginia Union University: Richmond: Private : Baccalaureate ...
The University of Texas System has the largest system-wide endowment of any American public higher education institution. For public universities, larger endowments are often associated with flagship state universities, especially those associated with a medical school. Eighteen states do not have institutions included in this list: Alaska ...
The University of Pennsylvania is ranked in the top-ten of best schools nationwide by U.S. News and World Report. Here's why UPenn ranks so high.
A c. 1815 illustration of the Ninth Street campus of the University of Pennsylvania, including the medical department (on left) and the college building (on right). In 1802, the university moved to the unused Presidential Mansion at Ninth and Market Streets, a building that both George Washington and John Adams had declined to occupy while Philadelphia was the nation's capital.
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania: Edinboro: Erie: Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: Master's Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs 5,187 1857 Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Indiana borough: Indiana: Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity 9,965 1875 Kutztown University ...
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