Inside the Quaker’s head
Sophia Zehler earned her master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government. The first-generation Cuban American also spent the year as Penn’s mascot, her third mascotting position in five years.
Facts
The University of Pennsylvania by the numbers: enrollment, tuition, employment, faculty size, annual budget, and more.
Students (Fall 2022)
23,559
4,642
28,201
10,412
13,147
Undergraduate Admissions (Fall 2022)
Penn received 54,588 applications for admission to the Class of 2026. Of those applicants, 3,549, or 6 percent, were offered admission. Ninety-four percent of the students admitted for Fall 2022 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: 730 to 780, with a median of 760
- SAT Math component: 770 to 800, with a median of 790
2,409
Undergraduate Graduation Rate
96%
93%
93%
Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement
Thousands of students and their biggest supporters—those who President Liz Magill described as ‘force multipliers’—flooded campus for a sunny ceremony for the ages.
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Internationalism (Fall 2022)
A total of 12,222 international students applied for admission to Penn’s undergraduate schools for Fall 2022 and 431 (3.5 percent) received admissions offers. Thirteen percent of the first-year class is international students. Penn had 6,931 international students enrolled at all levels in Fall 2022.
Study Abroad
1st
10th
1,434
49
Diversity (Fall 2022)
59%
56%
Penn Today
Virtual reality in an ancient world
Students create films to document the reimagining of the Penn Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries.
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Caring for the campus landscape with an ecological mindset
The Ecological Landscape Stewardship Plan offers a framework for the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services to design, maintain, and celebrate the beauty of the campus landscape with an emphasis on its role as a balanced ecological system.
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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 2021-22 academic year, there were 2,000 team members participating in 17 leagues and tournaments. 1,126 students were members of 35 active club sports.
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Faculty (Fall 2021)
- Standing 2,749
- Associated 2,344
- Total 5,093
- Academic Support Staff 1,961
- The student-faculty ratio 6:1
Members of distinction of the faculty, active and emeritus
- Members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 106
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Members of the National Academy of Medicine
124 -
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
51 -
Members of the American Philosophical Society
35 -
Guggenheim Fellowships
181 -
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
15
In the past two decades, the faculty has been home to:
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MacArthur Award recipients
10 - National Medal of Science recipient 1
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Nobel Prize recipient
1 - Pulitzer Prize recipients 4
Staff (as of November 2021)
- Total regular workforce of faculty and staff 18,000
- University of Pennsylvania Health System workforce, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 28,443
- House staff of the University of Pennsylvania Health System 1,314
Academics
- Total undergraduate majors currently being pursued 91 (Fall 2021)
- Traditional undergraduates pursuing individualized majors 3
Libraries (AY2023)
- Books volumes (print) 6.50 million
- Microform items 4.27 million
- Serials received 337,130
- E-books 2.74 million
- E-journals 335,914
- Digitized images 5.19 million
- Audio/video tapes, CDs, and DVDs 123,868
Campus Size (Fall 2022)
West Philadelphia campus: 299 acres, 220 buildings (excluding hospital).
New Bolton Center: 694 acres, 114 buildings.
Morris Arboretum: 92 acres, 32 buildings.
Fundraising (Fiscal Year 2022)
- Endowment $20.72 billion
- Voluntary support $710.9 million
- Contributions given by 148,028 individuals $462.9 million
- Gifts from foundations and associations $186.0 million
- Gifts from corporations $98.3 million
Sponsored Projects (Nov. 2022)
- in Awards $1.47 billion
- Awards 9,973
- Projects submitted 4,680
- Principal investigators that had a submitted project 1,901
Powerful Research (2022)
- Research centers and institutes 182
- Research faculty 5,000
- Postdoctoral fellows 1,300
- Academic support staff and graduate student trainees 5,700
- Research budget $1.1 billion
Tuition, Annual Budget, and Payroll
$63,452
$17,888
$13.5B
$7.63B
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. 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.