The University of Pennsylvania 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 leaders in academia,commerce,and public service. Penn identifies as the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,though this representation is challenged by Princeton and Columbia since the College of Philadelphia was not chartered or commence classes until 1755 and the first board of trustees was not convened until 1749,arguably making it the sixth or fifth-oldest.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Penn Carey Law offers the degrees of Juris Doctor (J.D.),Master of Laws (LL.M.),Master of Comparative Laws (LL.C.M.),Master in Law (M.L.),and Doctor of the Science of Law (S.J.D.).
The Wharton School 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,and one of six Ivy League Business Schools. The Wharton School is the business school which has produced the highest number of billionaires in the US.
Amy Gutmann is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2022 to 2024. She was previously the 8th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022,the longest-serving president in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science,School of Arts and Sciences,and Professor of Communication,Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Perelman School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania,a private,Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia. Founded in 1765,the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States. Today,the Perelman School of Medicine is a major center of biomedical research and education with over 2,900 faculty members and nearly $1 billion in annual sponsored program awards.
The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education,commonly known as Penn GSE,is the education school of University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. Formally established as a department in 1893 and a school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1915,Penn GSE has historically had research strengths in teaching and learning,the cultural contexts of education,language education,human development,quantitative research methods,and practitioner inquiry. Katharine Strunk is the current dean of Penn GSE;she succeeded Pam Grossman in 2023.
Joel D. Cooper,F.A.C.S.,a thoracic surgeon,is known for having completed the first successful lung transplant and the first successful double lung transplant.
Donato D. LaRossa (1941–2014) was a medical doctor and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Mary Elizabeth Magill is an American legal scholar. She served as the 9th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2022 to 2023,as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2022,and as the 13th dean of Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
William Burke-White is an American law professor and policy advisor. He was the Inaugural Director of Perry World House,an interdisciplinary global policy research institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
N. Scott Adzick currently serves as the Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) as well as the Director of CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment,which he founded in 1995. Dr. Adzick is also the C. Everett Koop Professor of Pediatric Surgery at CHOP and a Professor of Pediatrics,Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
John L. Jackson Jr. is an American anthropologist,filmmaker,author,and university administrator. He is currently the Provost and the Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and was previously Dean of the School of Social Policy &Practice and Special Adviser to the Provost on Diversity at Penn. Jackson earned his BA from Howard University and his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. He served as a junior fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows before joining the Cultural Anthropology faculty at Duke University.
The University of Pennsylvania College of Arts &Sciences (CAS) is the oldest undergraduate college at the University of Pennsylvania,a private Ivy League university,situated on the university's main campus in University City,Philadelphia. The college traces its roots to the establishment of a secondary school known as Unnamed Charity School in 1740. In 1749,Benjamin Franklin and twenty-one leading citizens of Philadelphia officially founded a secondary school named the Academy of Philadelphia. In 1755,the secondary school was expanded to include a collegiate division known as the College of Philadelphia. The secondary and collegiate institutions were known collectively as The Academy and College of Philadelphia. The college received its charter from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn. Penn CAS is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-oldest chartered college in the United States.
Jeffrey Drebin is a surgeon and scientist. He serves as the Department of Surgery Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Wendell Eric Pritchett is an American legal scholar and academic. He is currently the James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From February to June 2022,Pritchett served as interim president of the University of Pennsylvania;he is the first Black individual to serve as the university's president.
Theodore W. Ruger is an American legal scholar specializing in constitutional law,judicial authority,health law,and the regulation of therapeutic goods. He is the Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law and immediate past dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
David William Kennedy is an American academician,surgeon,and otolaryngologist. He is currently serving as an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
