CollegeGrad School
University of Pennsylvania
- 4 Year
- Philadelphia, PA
- Rating 3.87 out of 5 1,260 reviews
Report Card
- Academicsgrade A+
- Valuegrade A+
- Diversitygrade A+
- Campusgrade A
- Athleticsgrade B
- Party Scenegrade A+
- Professorsgrade A+
- Locationgrade A+
- Dormsgrade B minus
- Campus Foodgrade B minus
- Student Lifegrade A+
- Safetygrade B
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University of Pennsylvania Rankings
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Penn Admissions
Acceptance Rate
8%
Application Deadline
January 5
SAT Range
1450-1560
ACT Range
33-35
Application Fee
$75
SAT/ACT
Considered but not required
High School GPA
Required
Early Decision/Early Action
Yes
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Cost
Net Price
$24,771 / year
National
$15,523Average cost after financial aid for students receiving grant or scholarship aid, as reported by the college.
Average Total Aid Awarded
$50,532 / year
National
$7,535Students Receiving Financial Aid
59%
Scholarship
Academics
Professors
grade A+
Based on faculty accomplishments, salary, student reviews, and additional factors.
Student Faculty Ratio
6:1
Evening Degree Programs
Yes
- 75%
- of students agree that professors put a lot of effort into teaching their classes. 92 responses
- 71%
- of students agree that it is easy to get the classes they want. 102 responses
- 36%
- of students agree that the workload is easy to manage. 101 responses
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Majors
Most Popular Majors
- Finance406 Graduates
- Management Sciences and Information Systems198 Graduates
- Philosophy192 Graduates
- Nursing187 Graduates
- Economics183 Graduates
- Business180 Graduates
- Biology167 Graduates
- Political Science and Government152 Graduates
- Information Science144 Graduates
- Neuroscience and Neurobiology116 Graduates
Online
Online Programs Offered
1
Offers Online Courses
Yes
Online Certificate Programs
0
Online Associates Programs
0
Online Bachelor's Programs
1
Students
Full-Time Enrollment
10,448 Undergrads
Part-Time Undergrads
1,424
Undergrads Over 25
2%
Pell Grant
13%
Varsity Athletes
8%
Campus Life
Freshmen Live On-Campus
100%
Poll
- 47%
- of students say that Greek life is pretty big. 96 responses
Poll
- 61%
- of students say varsity sporting events are attended, but not a huge part of campus life. 132 responses
After College
Median Earnings 6 Years After Graduation
$85,900 / year
National
$33,028Graduation Rate
96%
National
49%Employed 2 Years After Graduation
91%
National
83%- 88%
- of students feel confident they will find a job in their field after graduation. 64 responses
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My experiences with the University of Pennsylvania were overall positive. The breadth of academic choices available was incredible. I explored a variety of subjects and transferred internally mid-way through my undergraduate career to focus on a business degree at Wharton, with a computer science minor. The school emphasizes pre-professionalism, providing many resources for corporate career development but also placing a lot of pressure on the student body. The student climate was compettiive, and students often spent most of their time with their extracurricular groups. The older dorms (I did not live in any of the newer developments) needed to renovations, and were unhygenic and cramped.
Unfortunately my personal experience with online schooling at the University of Pennsylvania was a deeply negative one, and it strongly discouraged me from taking a full semester of online courses again after completing Spring 2020. I ended up taking a leave of absence in Fall 2020 because I thought the administration and departments were extremely incompetent in producing the course material in an online format that was in any way engaging or educationally valuable to the student. For instance, one of my in-person labs that transitioned to online was so poorly done - the new online version of the lab was to simply give the student the lab walkthrough, and an audio recording of a faculty member shouting out measured values with the physics equipment, with the expectation that students would listen, copy all the values, then proceed to finish the lab as if they'd done themselves and visualized everything without the actual materials.
It's a very diverse school that offers many programs, while encouraging all students to be leaders of their community. There are some insanely talented faculty members throughout many departments which makes it possible for your learning to be unique and engaging. However on the other side, there are many negative experiences that come from the social pressure to do well and be occupied all the time with either studying hard or being on the scene. It creates a very difficult and unbalanced student life for most, making it hard to adjust to.