University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private, Ivy League, assay university amid in Philadelphia. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding associates of the Association of American Universities and one of the nine aboriginal Colonial Colleges. Penn claims to be the oldest university in the United States of America.
Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational affairs that focused as abundant on applied apprenticeship for business and accessible account as on the abstract and canon although Franklin's class was never adopted. The university covering of accoutrements appearance a dolphin on the red chief, adopted anon from the Franklin family's own covering of arms. Penn was one of the aboriginal bookish institutions to chase a multidisciplinary archetypal pioneered by several European universities, apperception assorted "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution. It was aswell home to abounding added educational innovations. The aboriginal academy of anesthetic in North America (Perelman Academy of Medicine, 1765), the aboriginal bookish business academy (Wharton Academy of Business, 1881) and the aboriginal "student union" architecture and organization, (Houston Hall, 1896) were all built-in at Penn.
Penn offers a ample ambit of bookish departments, an all-encompassing assay action and a amount of association beat and accessible account programs. It is decidedly able-bodied accepted for its medical school, dental school, architecture school, business school, law school, engineering school, communications school, nursing school, veterinary school, its amusing sciences and abstract programs, as able-bodied as its biomedical teaching and assay capabilities. Its undergraduate affairs is aswell a part of the a lot of careful in the country, with an accepting amount of 10 percent. One of Penn's a lot of able-bodied accepted bookish qualities is its accent on interdisciplinary education, which it promotes through abundant collective amount programs, assay centers and professorships, a unified campus, and the adeptness for acceptance to yield classes from any of Penn's schools (the "One University Policy").
All of Penn's schools display actual top assay activity. Penn is consistently ranked a part of the top assay universities in the world, for both superior and abundance of research. In budgetary year 2011, Penn topped the Ivy League in bookish assay spending with an $814 actor budget, involving some 4,000 faculty, 1,100 postdoctoral advisers and 5,400 abutment staff/graduate assistants.As one of the a lot of alive and abounding assay institutions, Penn is associated with several important innovations and discoveries in abounding fields of science and the humanities. A part of them are the aboriginal accepted purpose cyberbanking computer (ENIAC), the rubella and hepatitis B vaccines, Retin-A, cerebral therapy, aggregate assay and others.
Penn's bookish and assay programs are led by a ample and awful advantageous faculty. Nine Penn adroitness associates or graduates accept won a Nobel Prize in the endure ten years. Over its continued history the university has aswell produced abounding acclaimed alumni. These cover twelve active of accompaniment (including one U.S. President), three United States Absolute Cloister justices, and absolute cloister justices of added states, founders of technology companies, all-embracing law firms and all-around banking institutions, and university presidents. According to a 2014 study, the University of Pennsylvania has produced the a lot of billionaires of any university at the undergraduate level. Penn's endowment, at $9.6 billion in 2014, is the tenth better university award in the United States and the thirtieth better on a per-student basis