University of Pennsylvania - Bachelor's Degree

University of Pennsylvania’s, 302 acre campus located in West Philadelphia, reflects its rich heritage with more than 200 buildings and many notable landmarks. Penn is one of the world's most powerful research and teaching institutions; it has four undergraduate schools of Engineering and Applied Science; Nursing; Arts and Sciences and The Wharton School. Additionally it has twelve graduate and professional schools of Arts and Sciences; Dental Medicine; Engineering and Applied Science; Design; Nursing; Social Policy & Practice; Veterinary Medicine; Law; Medicine; Communication; Graduate School of Education and The Wharton School.

 

 

School Description

University of Pennsylvania is America’s first university, founded by Benjamin in 1749. Franklin served as president of the institution from 1755 until his death in 1790. Over the years, Penn went on to obtain a collegiate charter (1755), graduate its first class (1757), establish the first medical school in the American colonies (1765) and become the first American institution of higher education to be named a university (1779). In 1802, the University expanded to a new campus, but outgrew this space in 1860s, so in 1872 the trustees built a new campus in the street-car suburb of West Philadelphia.
More than 250 years after Ben Franklin broke new ground in founding Penn, its faculty, students, and alumni continue to make breakthroughs in research, scholarship, and education. Its many subsequent ‘firsts’, include the world’s first collegiate business school (Wharton, 1881), the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer (ENIAC, 1946), and the first woman president of an Ivy League institution (Judith Rodin, inaugurated in 1994) as well as the first female Ivy League president to succeed another female (Amy Gutmann, inaugurated in 2004).