The University of Pennsylvania, a charter member of the Ivy Group, is
ranked among the finest comprehensive universities in the world. It was seventh
among national universities in the cover story, "America's
Best Colleges," published in the Aug. 30, 1999 issue of U.S. News
& World Report, the third consecutive U.S. News survey in which
Penn has been listed among the Top Ten institutions in America.
The University of Pennsylvania
also is unique among its peers in that all of its 12 graduate and professional
schools are located on its 262-acre campus in West
Philadelphia, encouraging horizontal collaboration among undergraduate
programs, and among the graduate and professional schools, and also vertical
synergies within individual schools and between the undergraduate programs and
most of the graduate and professional schools.
The University of Pennsylvania is a place where teaching and research
are unconstrained by traditional disciplinary boundaries; a campus environment
that encourages interdisciplinary study. It is a place where teaching embraces
both theory and practice in keeping with founder Benjamin Franklin's admonition
that we "…learn every thing that is useful and every thing that is
ornamental." The educational experience at Penn is both intellectual and
utilitarian; education that explores not only "why," but
"how."
