Quakers make history at 128th running of Penn Relays
Penn athletes had several noteworthy performances on the track and in the field at the Relays at Franklin Field.
Facts
The University of Pennsylvania by the numbers: enrollment, tuition, employment, faculty size, annual budget, and more.
Students (Fall 2023)
23,948
4,763
28,711
10,610
13,338
Undergraduate Admissions (Fall 2023)
Penn received 59,465 applications for admission to the Class of 2027. Of those applicants, 3,489, or 6 percent, were offered admission. Ninety-four percent of the students admitted for Fall 2023 came from the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class. The middle 50% of scores, as well as the median scores, on each of the two SAT components, are as follows:
- SAT Evidence-based Reading + Writing component: 740 to 770, with a median of 760
- SAT Math component: 770 to 800, with a median of 790
2,416
Undergraduate Graduation Rate
97%
96%
95%
To Penn’s Class of 2024: ‘The world needs you’
The University celebrated graduating students during the 268th Commencement.
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Internationalism (Fall 2023)
A total of 13,309 international students applied for admission to Penn’s undergraduate schools for Fall 2023 and 419 (3.1 percent) received admissions offers. Thirteen percent of the first-year class is international students. Penn had 6,887 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2023.
Study Abroad
1st
10th
1,434
49
Diversity (Fall 2023)
62%
56%
Penn Today
The Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Since its founding, the Center’s multidisciplinary approach has been a strength, where researchers from Penn Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and more come together in one space.
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Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania
Solar production has begun at the Great Cove I and II facilities in central Pennsylvania, the equivalent of powering 70% of the electricity demand from Penn’s academic campus and health system in the Philadelphia area.
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Athletics and Recreation
A charter member of the Ivy League, Penn offers intercollegiate competition for men in 17 sports, including baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, football, sprint football, golf, lacrosse, heavyweight rowing, lightweight rowing, soccer, squash, swimming, diving, tennis, indoor track, outdoor track, and wrestling. It offers intercollegiate competition for women in 16 sports, including basketball, cross country, field hockey, fencing, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, and diving, tennis, indoor track, outdoor track, and volleyball. During the 2022-23 academic year, there were 2,400 team members participating in 17 leagues and tournaments. 1,217 students were members of 36 active club sports.
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Faculty (Fall 2023)
- Standing 2,878
- Associated 2,687
- Total 5,565
- Academic Support Staff 2,090
- The student-faculty ratio 8:1
Members of distinction of the faculty, active and emeritus
- Members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 111
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Members of the National Academy of Medicine
129 -
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
55 -
Members of the American Philosophical Society
37 -
Guggenheim Fellowships
185 -
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
16
The faculty is home to:
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MacArthur Award recipients
8 - National Medal of Science recipient 1
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Nobel Prize recipients
2 - Pulitzer Prize recipients 3
Staff (as of November 2023)
- Total regular workforce of faculty and staff 20,780
- University of Pennsylvania Health System workforce, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 33,389
- House staff of the University of Pennsylvania Health System 1,510
Academics
- Total undergraduate majors currently being pursued 90 (Fall 2022)
- Traditional undergraduates pursuing individualized majors 3
Libraries (AY2024)
- Books volumes (print) 6.70 million
- Microform items 4.27 million
- Serials received 351,044
- E-books 3.09 million
- E-journals 349,808
- Digitized images 5.44 million
- Audio/video tapes, CDs, and DVDs 180,798
Campus Size (Fall 2023)
West Philadelphia campus: 299 acres, 220 buildings (excluding hospital).
New Bolton Center: 694 acres, 123 buildings.
Morris Arboretum: 92 acres, 32 buildings.
Fundraising (Fiscal Year 2023)
- Endowment $20.96 billion
- Voluntary support $737.9 million
- Contributions given by 136,462 individuals $292.0 million
- Gifts from foundations and associations $373.2 million
- Gifts from corporations $72.7 million
Sponsored Projects (Nov. 2023) reflects FY2022-23 data
- in Awards $1.34 billion
- Awards 10,078
- Projects submitted 4,851
- Principal investigators that had a submitted project 1,949
Powerful Research (2024)
- Research centers and institutes 195
- Research faculty 5,000
- Postdoctoral fellows 1,300
- Academic support staff and graduate student trainees 6,000
- Research budget $1.37 billion
Tuition, Annual Budget, and Payroll
$66,104
$18,496
$14.4B
$8.17B
Community Service
Nearly 14,000 University students, faculty, and staff participate in more than 300 Penn volunteer and community service programs and more than 70 academically based community service courses that are taught each year. The courses enroll approximately 1,800 undergraduate and graduate Penn students each year. Community service at Penn is primarily coordinated by Civic House (student volunteerism and advocacy), Fox Leadership, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships (coordinates academically based community service), and Penn VIPS (Volunteers in Public Service—faculty and staff volunteers), which is a part of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.
Netter Center for Community Partnerships
14,000
Increasing community impact through Penn Medicine CAREs grant program
Outside of hospitals and clinics, Penn Medicine physicians, nurses, staff, and students are serving their neighborhoods through volunteerism.