Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Stetson worked as Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania for 29 years until 2007. [1] According to former Union College admissions dean Daniel M. Lundquist, he brought "modern college recruiting practices to the Ivy League", [1] and he was known as an advocate of early admission policies which, he argued, attracted a more dedicated cadre of students. [2]
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 ...
The Wharton School (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən / WHOR-tən) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia.Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school.
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [20] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.
Swarthmore has an undergraduate student enrollment of 1,620 (for the 2016–2017 year) and 187 faculty members (99% with a terminal degree), for a student-faculty ratio of 8:1. The small college offers more than 600 courses per year in over 40 courses of study.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (more commonly referred to as Penn Nursing) is an undergraduate and graduate institution at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia. According to U.S. News & World Report , the School of Nursing at Penn is among the top-ranked undergraduate and graduate nursing schools in the ...