University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League university in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many people call the university "Penn." It contains four undergraduate schools, which are for students without a college degree. These schools are nursing, arts and sciences, engineering, and Wharton, which is a famous business school. It had graduate schools-for those with a college degree- in medicine, business, law, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, education, communication, design, and social policy. Their competitive teams are known as the Quakers.

45th President of the United States Donald Trump graduated here with a Bachelor of Science.

University Of Pennsylvania Media

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  Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, was the primary founder, benefactor, and a president of the board of trustees for the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which merged with the University of the State of Pennsylvania to form the University of Pennsylvania in 1791.

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  A 1765 admission ticket to "A Course of Lectures" given by Dr. John Morgan, the founder and first professor of medicine at Penn's Medical School

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  A circa 1780 sketch of the Academy and College of Philadelphia when its first dormitory (on right) was built

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  A ticket to an 1807 lecture by Benjamin Rush, then a professor at Penn's Department of Medicine

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  The Ninth Street Campus, located on the west side of Ninth Street between Market and Chestnut Streets, and a hand-colored lithograph created in 1842 by John Caspar Wild of Medical Hall (on left) and College Hall (on right), both built between 1829 and 1830

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  The Ninth Street Campus above Chestnut Street and Medical Hall just prior to the university's 1871 move to its current location in West Philadelphia

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  An illustration of Penn's College Hall from a pocket guide to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

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  An illustration of the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia from a Brief Guide to Philadelphia, published in 1918

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  Houston Hall, the first college student union in the nation

References

• "University of Pennsylvania". upenn.edu. Retrieved 2008-06-28.