
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.
The University of Pennsylvania by the numbers: enrollment, tuition, employment, faculty size, annual budget, and more.
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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:
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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.
Learn MoreA 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.
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Students create films to document the reimagining of the Penn Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries.
Learn MoreThe 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.
Learn MoreA 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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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.
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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.
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Outside of hospitals and clinics, Penn Medicine physicians, nurses, staff, and students are serving their neighborhoods through volunteerism.