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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = University of Pennsylvania
 | former_names           = {{ubli|Academy and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania (1751–1755) | College of Philadelphia (1755–1779, 1789–1791)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html |title=Penn in the 18th Century |website=upenn.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428155156/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1700s/penn1700s.html |archive-date=April 28, 2006 |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref>| University of the State of Pennsylvania (1779{{refn|group=note|see {{cite web |url=https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/statutes-trustees |title=Statutes of the Trustees |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=September 12, 2022}}}}–1791) }}
 | image                  = UPenn shield with banner.svg
 | image_upright          = 0.74
 | image_alt              = Arms of the University of Pennsylvania
 | caption                = [[Coat of arms of the University of Pennsylvania|Coat of arms]]
 | religious_affiliation  = [[Nonsectarian]]
 | latin_name             = Universitas Pennsylvaniensis<ref>{{cite web | url=https://secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-governance/frequently-asked-questions | title=Frequently Asked Questions &#124; Office of the University Secretary }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Record of the Jubilee Celebrations of the University of Sydney |year=2009|orig-date=1903 |publisher=William Brooks and Co. |isbn=9781112213304 |publication-place=[[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]] |language=en-AU }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Actes du Jubilé de 1909 |year=2016|orig-date=1910 |publisher=Georg Keck & Cie |isbn=9781360078335 |publication-place=[[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]] |language=fr-CH }}</ref>
 | motto                  = {{lang|la|Leges sine moribus vanae}} ([[Latin language|Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "Laws without morals are useless"
 | established            = {{start date and age|1740|11|14}}{{refn|group=note|name="founding_note"|The university officially uses 1740 as its founding date and has since 1899. The ideas and intellectual inspiration for the academic institution stem from 1749, with a pamphlet published by [[Benjamin Franklin]] (1705/1706–1790). When Franklin's institution was established, it inhabited a schoolhouse built on November 14, 1740, for another school, which never came to practical fruition.<ref name="archives.upenn.edu">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history |title=Penn History Exhibits |publisher=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=January 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822113907/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history |archive-date=August 22, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Penn archivist Mark Frazier Lloyd noted, "In 1899, UPenn's Trustees adopted a resolution that established 1740 as the founding date, but good cases may be made for 1749, when Franklin first convened the Trustees, or 1751, when the first classes were taught at the affiliated secondary school for boys, Academy of Philadelphia, or 1755, when Penn obtained its collegiate charter to add a post-secondary institution, the College of Philadelphia."<ref name="upenn.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603231438/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/2231 |archive-date=June 3, 2011 |title=A Penn Trivial Pursuit – Penn Current |date=June 3, 2011}}</ref> Princeton's library presents another diplomatically-phrased view.<ref name="princeton.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030319132644/http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/topics/older.shtml |archive-date=March 19, 2003 |title=Seeley G. Mudd Library: FAQ Princeton vs. University of Pennsylvania: Which is the Older Institution?|date=March 19, 2003|author-first1=John|author-last1=Weeren|orig-date=20 July 2001|publisher=Princeton University}}</ref>}}
 | type                   = [[Private university|Private]] [[research university]]
 | accreditation          = [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education|MSCHE]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist
|[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]
|[[Consortium on Financing Higher Education|COFHE]]
|[[National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities|NAICU]]|[[Quaker Consortium|QC]]
|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]
}}
 | endowment              = $24.8 billion (2025)<ref>  {{cite web |title=About Us Penn Office of Investments |url=https://investments.upenn.edu/about-us  |publisher=Penn Office of Investments |date=June 30, 2025 |access-date=October 11, 2025}}</ref>
 | budget                 = $4.4 billion (2024)<ref>{{cite web |title=Operating Budget |url=https://budget.upenn.edu/operating-budget/ |publisher=Office of Budget and Management Analysis, University of Pennsylvania |access-date=2023-12-10 |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009003416/https://budget.upenn.edu/operating-budget/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | founder                = [[Benjamin Franklin]]
 | president              = [[J. Larry Jameson]]<!--J. Larry Jameson has been chosen as interim president (https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/12/penn-larry-jameson-interim-president).-->
 | provost                = [[John L. Jackson Jr.]]
 | academic_staff         = 4,793 (2018)<ref name="Facts">{{cite web |title=Penn: Penn Facts |url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023185249/https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |archive-date=October 23, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | students               = {{gaps|23,374}} (fall 2022)<ref name="CDS">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2022–2023 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2022-23-Jul-2023.pdf |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=Sep 12, 2023 |archive-date=Aug 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803133606/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2022-23-Jul-2023.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | total_staff            = {{gaps|39,859}} (fall 2020; includes health system)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |title=Facts |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=February 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124040550/https://www.upenn.edu/about/facts |url-status=live}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 9,760 (fall 2022)<ref name="CDS"/>
 | postgrad               = {{gaps|13,614}} (fall 2022)<ref name="CDS"/>
 | city                   = [[Philadelphia]]
 | state                  = Pennsylvania
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|39|57|01|N|75|11|41|W|region:US-PA_type:edu|display=title,inline}}
 | campus                 = Large city
 | campus_size            = {{ubli|{{convert|1085|acre|ha}} (total); | {{convert|299|acre|ha}}, [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]] campus; | {{convert|694|acre|ha}}, [[New Bolton Center]];  | {{convert|92|acre|ha}}, [[Morris Arboretum]]}}
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = ''[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]''
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|[[NCAA Division I FCS]] – [[Ivy League]]|[[Philadelphia Big 5]]|[[City 6]]|[[Intercollegiate Rowing Association|IRA]]|[[Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges|EARC]]|[[Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges|EAWRC]]}}
 | colors                 = {{college color list|team=Penn Quakers}} <!-- same as athletics, inserted automatically -->
 | nickname               = [[Penn Quakers|Quakers]]
 | mascot                 = The Quaker
 | website                = {{Official URL}}
 | logo                   = University of Pennsylvania wordmark.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert
 | logo_upright           = .67
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The '''University of Pennsylvania''' ('''Penn'''{{refn|group=note|The registered trademark as the primary substitute for using the University's full name; it is part of the university's official brand.<ref name="branding">{{multiref2|1={{cite web |title=Penn Brand Standards |url=https://branding.web-resources.upenn.edu/ |website=UPenn Web Resources |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418015150/https://branding.web-resources.upenn.edu/ |url-status=dead }}|2= {{citation |title=UPenn Brand Guidelines |date=September 2022 |url=https://upenn.app.box.com/s/ya73qe5vsor49tlgqvv5pz2uz8yx750x |publisher=University of Pennsylvania }} }}</ref>}} or '''UPenn'''{{refn|group=note|name="name_style"|From ''The Pennsylvania Gazette'': "The University's online style guide says that while Penn is the officially sanctioned term, UPenn is 'permissible{{nbsp}}... in situations where it may help to distinguish Penn from other universities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yagoda |first1=Ben |title=Penn v. UPenn |url=https://thepenngazette.com/penn-v-upenn/ |work=The Pennsylvania Gazette |date=29 August 2017 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |access-date=June 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104102013/https://thepenngazette.com/penn-v-upenn |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''UPenn'' is the element used in the university's domain name.}}) is a [[Private university|private]] [[Ivy League]] [[research university]] in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine [[colonial colleges]], it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of founder and first president [[Benjamin Franklin]], who had advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and [[public service]]. 

The university has four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]], the [[Wharton School]], and the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|School of Nursing]]. Among its graduate schools are its [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|law school]], whose first professor, [[James Wilson (Founding Father)|James Wilson]], helped write the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]]; and its [[Perelman School of Medicine|medical school]], the first in North America.

In 2023, Penn ranked third among U.S. universities in [[List of countries by research and development spending|research expenditures]], according to the [[National Science Foundation]].<ref name="NCSES" >{{cite web |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/higher-education-research-development/2023#survey-info |title=Higher Education Research and Development: Fiscal Year 2023 |publisher=National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |date=November 25, 2024 |access-date=November 26, 2024 }}</ref> As of 2025, its [[financial endowment|endowment]] was {{USD|24.8 billion|long=no}}, making it the [[List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment|sixth-wealthiest private academic institution in the nation]]. The University of Pennsylvania's main campus is in the [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]] neighborhood of [[West Philadelphia]], and is centered around [[College Hall (University of Pennsylvania)|College Hall]]. Campus landmarks include [[Houston Hall (University of Pennsylvania)|Houston Hall]], the first modern [[Student activity center|student union]]; and [[Franklin Field]], the nation's first dual-level [[college football]] stadium and the nation's longest-standing [[NCAA Division I]] college football stadium in continuous operation.<ref name="10 old"/> The university's athletics program, the [[Penn Quakers]], fields varsity teams in 33 sports as a member of NCAA Division I's Ivy League conference.

Penn alumni, trustees, and faculty include 8 [[Founding Fathers of the United States]] who signed the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], 7 who signed the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]],<ref name="upenn2">{{cite web |title=Penn Notables: Penn Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/declaration-constitution/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604205318/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/declaration-constitution/ |archive-date=June 4, 2024 |website=Penn University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania |language=en}} {{webarchive|date=March 7, 2017|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307090215/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/signers.html}}</ref> 24 members of the [[Continental Congress]], 3 [[President of the United States|presidents of the United States]],{{refn|group=note|name="Harrison"}}<ref>two as students: [[William Henry Harrison]] see note 5, and [[Donald Trump]] and one as Professor: [[Joe Biden]] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/us/politics/biden-ambassador-germany-gutmann.html?smid=nytcore-</ref> 38 Nobel laureates, 9 foreign [[Head of state|heads of state]], 3 [[United States Supreme Court]] justices, at least 4 Supreme Court justices of foreign nations,<ref>see list with citations in Notable People section</ref> 32 [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]], 163 members of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], 19 [[Cabinet of the United States|U.S. Cabinet secretaries]], 46 [[Governor (United States)|governors]], 28 [[State supreme court|State Supreme Court]] justices, 36 living billionaires (the largest number of any U.S. college or university),<ref name="quartz">{{cite news |date=9 June 2024 |title=Nearly a fifth of America's billionaires went to just 5 colleges |url=https://qz.com/billionaires-penn-harvard-yale-stanford-1851528839/slides/6 |access-date=June 10, 2024 |work=Quartz |at=Slide 1: University of Pennsylvania |language=en}}</ref> and 5 [[Medal of Honor]] recipients.<ref name="MoH Recipients">{{cite web |last1=Ahern |first1=Joseph-James |last2=Hawley |first2=Scott W. |date=January 2011 |title=Congressional Medals of Honor, Recipients from the Civil War |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/medal-of-honor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123201154/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/awards/medal-of-honor |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania |website= University Archives and Records Center }}</ref><ref name="na">{{cite web |title=Frederick C. Murphy, Our Facility's Namesake |url=https://www.archives.gov/boston/exhibits/murphy |website=archives.gov |date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=National Archives at Boston |access-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref>

==History==
{{Main|History of the University of Pennsylvania}}
In 1740, a group of [[Philadelphia]]ns organized to erect a great preaching hall for [[George Whitefield]], a traveling [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[evangelism|evangelist]],<ref>see second footnote 9 in Extracts from the Benjamin Franklin published Pennsylvania Gazette, (January 3 to December 25, 1740) – Founders Online https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826064004/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0065 |date=August 26, 2023 }} "Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved."</ref> which was designed and constructed by [[Edmund Woolley]]. It was the largest building in Philadelphia at the time, and thousands of people attended it to hear Whitefield preach.<ref name="MontgomeryHistory">{{cite book|title=A History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Foundation to A. D. 1770|publisher=George W. Jacobs & Co.|author=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison|year=1900|location=Philadelphia|lccn=00003240|title-link=:File:History of the University of Pennsylvania - Montgomery (1900).djvu}}</ref>{{rp|26}}

In the fall of 1749, [[Benjamin Franklin]], a [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]] and [[polymath]] in Philadelphia, circulated a pamphlet, "[[commons:File:Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania (UC) - Benjamin Franklin (1931 1749).djvu|Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania]]," his vision for what he called a "Public Academy of Philadelphia".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/brief.html|title=A Brief History of the University, University of Pennsylvania Archives|first=Steven Morgan|last=Friedman|website=Archives.upenn.edu|access-date=December 9, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100102143449/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/brief.html|archive-date=January 2, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On June 16, 1755, the [[Academy and College of Philadelphia|College of Philadelphia]] was chartered, paving the way for the addition of undergraduate instruction.<ref name="WoodHistory">{{cite book|lccn=07007833|oclc=760190902|title=The History of the University of Pennsylvania, from Its Origin to the Year 1827|publisher= McCarty and Davis|last=Wood|first=George Bacon|author-link=George Bacon Wood|year=1834|title-link=:s:en:The History of the University of Pennsylvania|page=13}}</ref> 

Penn identifies as the [[List of oldest universities in continuous operation|fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States]], though this representation is challenged by [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Columbia University|Columbia]] since the College of Philadelphia was not chartered or commence classes until 1755 and the first board of trustees was not convened until 1749, arguably making it the sixth or fifth-oldest.{{refn|group=note|name="founding_note"}}

==Campus==
[[File:37th and Spruce SEPTA station.jpg|thumb|[[Cope and Stewardson]], the primary architects for Penn's campus, were Penn professors who designed this Quadrangle dormitory in a [[Collegiate Gothic]] style. This image, taken in 2007, includes a replica of a non operational 1920s trolley car, similar to version that used to run down Woodland Avenue, and now forms part of an entrance to [[SEPTA]]'s [[37th Street station (SEPTA)|37th Street subway station]]]]
The University of Pennsylvania's campus spans approximately 299 acres in West Philadelphia, featuring a blend of historic and modern architecture. Key facilities include the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, the Penn Museum, and the recently constructed Pennovation Center, which serves as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Much of the current architecture on Penn's campus was designed by the [[Philadelphia]]-based architecture firm [[Cope and Stewardson]], whose owners were Philadelphia born and raised architects and Penn professors who also designed [[Princeton University]] and a large part of [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | title=Walter Cope | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323061145/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | title=John Stewardson | website=University Archives and Records Center | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323060904/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | url-status=live |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> They were known for having combined the [[Gothic architecture]] of the [[University of Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge]] with the local landscape to establish the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Collegiate Gothic]] style.<ref>{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings |ar=23024 |Cope & Stewardson (fl. 1885–1912)}}</ref>

Penn's main artery at the center of [[University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District|Penn's Campus Historic District]] is Locust Walk, a pedestrian only walkway first announced by Penn President, [[Harold Stassen]] in 1948.<ref> Stassen was quoted in Volume 47, no. 4 (December 1948) issue: [pages 13-15] of the ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' that Locust Walk would make Penn, “one of the most beautiful metropolitan campuses in the world. The plan will result in a campus that is both utilitarian and beautiful.” see https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/institutional-planning/gazette-expansion-plans-revealed-1948/ retrieved December 5, 2024</ref> Work began in the summer of 1960, and was completed in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leong |first1=Jeanne |title=For the Record: Locust Walk |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2015-10-22/record/record-locust-walk |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=5 December 2024 |date=22 October 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Locust Walk - UPenn (53589301557).jpg|thumb|Penn's main artery, Locust Walk, a pedestrian artery traversing six blocks from 40th Street to 35th Street in [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]], in March 2024]]
The present core campus covers over {{convert|299|acre|ha}} in a contiguous area of West Philadelphia's University City section, and the older heart of the campus comprises the [[University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District]]. All of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located on this campus. The surrounding neighborhood includes several restaurants, bars, a large upscale grocery store, and a movie theater on the western edge of campus. Penn's core campus borders [[Drexel University]] and is a few blocks from the University City campus of [[Saint Joseph's University]], which absorbed [[University of the Sciences]] in Philadelphia in a merger, and [[The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College]].

[[Wistar Institute]], a cancer research center, is also located on Penn's campus. In 2014, a new seven-story glass and steel building was completed next to the institute's original brick edifice built in 1897 further expanding collaboration between the university and the Wistar Institute.<ref>{{cite news|last=Clarke|first=Dominique|title=Wistar strategic plan includes new building and research|url=http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research|access-date=November 10, 2011 |newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|date=September 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121203226/http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research |archive-date=January 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage at Penn was designed by BLT Architects and completed in 1995. Module 6 is located at 38th and Walnut and includes spaces for 627 vehicles, {{convert|9000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of storefront retail operations, a 9,500-ton chiller module and corresponding extension of the campus chilled water loop, and a 4,000-ton ice storage facility.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Pennsylvania Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage|url=http://www.blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|publisher=BLT Architects|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812175412/http://blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|archive-date=August 12, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, in its first significant expansion across the [[Schuylkill River]], Penn purchased {{convert|23|acre}} at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue, the then site of [[DuPont]]'s Marshall Research Labs. In October 2016, with help from architects Matthias Hollwich, [[Marc Kushner]], and [[KSS Design Group|KSS Architects]], Penn completed the design and renovation of the center piece of the project, a former paint factory named ''Pennovation Works'', which houses shared desks, wet labs, common areas, a pitch bleacher, and other attributes of a tech incubator. The rest of the site, known as South Bank, is a mixture of lightly refurbished industrial buildings that serve as affordable and flexible workspaces and land for future development.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |title=Tracking The Evolution Of Industry At 34th And Grays Ferry |last=Helmer |first=Madeleine |date=March 16, 2017 |publisher=Pennovation Works University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194534/https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Parks and arboreta===
{{Further|Morris Arboretum}}
In 2007, Penn acquired about {{convert|35|acre|ha}} between the campus and the [[Schuylkill River]] at the former site of the [[Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center|Philadelphia Civic Center]] and a nearby {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} site then owned by the [[United States Postal Service]]. Dubbed the Postal Lands, the site extends from [[Market Street (Philadelphia)|Market Street]] on the north to Penn's Bower Field on the south, including the former main regional U.S. Postal Building at 30th and Market Streets, now the regional office for the [[United States Internal Revenue Service|U.S. Internal Revenue Service]]. Over the next decade, the site became the home to educational, research, [[biomedical engineering|biomedical]], and [[Mixed-use development|mixed-use]] facilities. The first phase, comprising a park and athletic facilities, opened in the fall of 2011.

In September 2011, Penn completed the construction of the {{USD|46.5 million|long=no}}, {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} Penn Park, which features passive and active recreation and athletic components framed and subdivided by canopy trees, lawns, and meadows. It is located east of the Highline Green and stretches from [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut]] to [[South Street (Philadelphia)|South Street]]s.

Penn maintains two arboreta. The first, the roughly {{convert|300|acre|sp=us|adj=on}} Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania, encompasses the entire [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]] main campus. The campus arboretum is an urban forest with over 6,500 trees representing 240 species of trees and shrubs, ten specialty gardens, and five urban parks,<ref name="arbnet">{{cite web |url=http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |title=Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania |website=arbnet.org |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419031738/http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |url-status=live }}</ref> which has been designated as a Tree Campus USA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|title=Tree Campus Higher Education at arborday.org|website=arborday.org|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=December 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202212455/https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref> since 2009 and formally recognized as an accredited ArbNet Arboretum since 2017.<ref name="arbnet"/> Penn maintains an interactive website linked to Penn's comprehensive tree inventory, which allows users to explore Penn's entire collection of trees.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |title=Welcome |work=University of Pennsylvania Facilities & Real Estate |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304222559/https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 92-acre second arboretum [[Morris Arboretum]] is the official arboretum of the [[Pennsylvania|Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]] and includes more than 13,000 labelled plants of 2,500 types, representing the temperate floras of [[North America]], [[Asia]], and [[Europe]], with a primary focus on Asia.
<ref>{{cite web| url = https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Compton and Bloomfield| access-date = 2023-09-01| author = George E. Thomas| date = August 1978| archive-date = August 14, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120207/https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref>

===New Bolton Center===
{{main|New Bolton Center}}
Penn also owns the {{convert|687|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[New Bolton Center]], the research and large-animal health care center of its veterinary school.<ref name="arch">{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = March 25, 2021| archive-date = July 21, 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| title = Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: South Brook Farm| access-date = December 16, 2012| author = George E. Thomas| date = June 1991| archive-date = December 16, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216182522/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> Located near [[Kennett Square, Pennsylvania|Kennett Square]], New Bolton Center received nationwide media attention when [[Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Barbaro (horse)|Barbaro]] underwent surgery at its Widener Hospital for injuries suffered while running in the [[Preakness Stakes]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|title=Barbaro|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404200850/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Libraries===<!-- This section is linked from [[NeXT]] -->
{{Further|Van Pelt Library}}
[[File:Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - IMG 6589.JPG|thumb|[[Van Pelt Library]], Penn's main library building]]
[[File:Furness library.jpg|thumb|Penn's first standalone library, built in 1891 and designed by [[Frank Furness]], {{Circa|1915}}]]
[[File:Furness Lib interior looking N UPenn.JPG|thumb|The interior of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|School of Design]]'s library]]

Penn library system has grown into a system with 300 [[full-time equivalent]] (FTE) employees, and a total operating budget of more than {{USD|95&nbsp;million|long=no}}.<ref name="reimagining">{{Cite web |date=2025-04-08 |title=Reimagining the Penn Libraries {{!}} Penn Today |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reimagining-penn-libraries-brigitte-weinsteiger |access-date=2026-01-01 |website=penntoday.upenn.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250606222253/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reimagining-penn-libraries-brigitte-weinsteiger|url-status=live|archive-date=2025-06-06 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |title=Penn Libraries Visitor Information |newspaper=Penn Libraries |access-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314193318/https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |url-status=live }}</ref> The library system has 6.19 million book and serial volumes as well as 4.23 million [[microform]] items and 1.11 million e-books.<ref name="Facts"/> It subscribes to over 68,000 print serials and e-journals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|title=Penn Library Data Farm|access-date=December 24, 2009|archive-date=March 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= Data Farm|url =http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|archive-date=March 17, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

The university has 19 libraries.<ref name="reimagining"/> [[Van Pelt Library]] on the Penn campus is the university's main library. The other 18 include:
*[[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania|Annenberg School for Communication]] library located on [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut Street]] between 36th and 37th Streets
*Archaeology and Anthropology Library located at the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]] 
*Biddle Law Library located on campus on the 3100 block of Sansom Street at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Law|School of Law]]
*Chemistry Library located on campus on 3400 block of Spruce Street in the Chemistry Building 
*Dental Medicine Library on campus on the 4100 the block of [[Locust Street]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine|Dental School]] 
*[[Fisher Fine Arts Library]] located on campus on the 3400 block of Woodland Avenue 
*Holman Biotech Commons library located on campus on the 3500 block of Hamilton Walk adjacent to the Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine|Medical School]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|Nursing School]] 
*Humanities and Social Sciences Library, including [[Weigle Information Commons]], located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street in the Van Pelt Library
*[[Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies]] library located off campus at 420 [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut Street]] near [[Independence Hall]] and Washington Square 
*Lea Library, a collection of [[Catholic Church]] history, located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street on the 6th floor of the [[Van Pelt Library]] 
*Lippincott Business Library located on campus between 35th and 36th streets on Locust Street in the second floor of the Van Pelt Library
*Math/Physics/Astronomy library located on campus on 3300 block of Walnut Streets adjacent to [[The Palestra]] on the third floor of the David Rittenhouse Laboratory 
*Rare Books and Manuscripts library and Yarnall Library of Theology located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street in Van Pelt Library 
*Veterinary Medicine Library located on the campus between 35th and 36th streets on Sansom Street at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine|Veterinary Medicine School]] with satellite library located off campus at New Bolton Center.

Penn also maintains books and records off campus at their high-density storage facility.

The [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|Penn Design School]]'s Fine Arts Library was built to be Penn's main library and the first with its own building. The main library at the time was designed by [[Frank Furness]] to be first library in nation to separate the low ceilings of the [[library stack]], where the books were stored, from forty-foot-plus high ceilinged rooms, where the books were read and studied.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWOH42D3i1U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hWOH42D3i1U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Penn's Spectacular Architecture – YouTube|website=youtube.com|date=March 18, 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>see also Applications for Historical Landmark Status</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1971 Nomination Form, by George Thomas|url=http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|access-date=July 20, 2007|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729081956/http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Yarnall Library of Theology, a major American rare book collection, is part of Penn's libraries. The Yarnall Library of Theology was formerly affiliated with [[Saint Clement's Church (Philadelphia)|St. Clement's Church]] in Philadelphia. It was founded in 1911 under the terms of the wills of Ellis Hornor Yarnall (1839–1907) and Emily Yarnall, and subsequently housed at the former Philadelphia Divinity School. The library's major areas of focus are theology, patristics, and the liturgy, history and theology of the [[Anglican Communion]] and the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church in the United States of America]]. It includes a large number of rare books, incunabula, and illuminated manuscripts, and new material continues to be added.<ref>Joyce L. White, "Biographical and Historical Background of the Yarnall Library of Theology" (Offprint from ''The Library Chronicle'', University of Pennsylvania, Volume XLIII, number 2, Winter, 1979.)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vahZAAAAMAAJ|title=Yarnall Library of Theology of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia: The Ellis Hornor Yarnall Foundation|date=1933|publisher=Press of E. Stern & Company, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref>

===Art installations===
The campus has more than 40 notable art installations, in part because of a 1959 [[Philadelphia]] ordinance requiring total budget for new construction or major renovation projects in which governmental resources are used to include [[percent for art|1% for art]]<ref name="Abernethy1988">{{cite book|author=Lloyd M. Abernethy|title=Benton Spruance, the Artist and the Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZ1OhyLKEMIC&pg=PA119|year=1988|publisher=Associated University Presses|isbn=978-0-87982-517-1|pages=118–119}}</ref> to be used to pay for installation of site-specific public art,<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |title=The City of Philadelphia Celebrates 60 Years of Percent for Art |publisher=City of Philadelphia |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194608/https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in part because many alumni collected and donated art to Penn, and in part because of the presence of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design]] on the campus.<ref name="art1">{{cite web |url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |title=Campus Sculpture Tour |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112195801/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:King Solomon Archipenko.JPG|thumb|King [[Solomon]], cast in 1968 based on instructions by the widow of artist [[Alexander Archipenko]], now located on Penn's campus]]
[[Alexander Archipenko]]'s sculpture of King [[Solomon]] was initially loaned to Penn in 1985 by parents of a Penn student and donated in 1995 to honor the inauguration of [[Judith Rodin]] as Penn president in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clarification: A Colorful Collection of Outdoor Sculpture on Penn's Campus |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v62/n09/clarification-king-solomon.html |website=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |access-date=4 December 2024 |date=13 October 2015}}</ref>

In 2020, Penn installed ''Brick House'', a monumental work of art, created by [[Simone Leigh]] at the College Green gateway to Penn's campus near the corner of 34th Street and Woodland Walk. This {{convert|5,900|lb|adj=on}} bronze sculpture, which is {{convert|16|ft}} high and {{convert|9|ft}} in diameter at its base, depicts an African woman's head crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids atop a form that resembles both a skirt and a clay house.<ref name="Brick House">{{cite web|url=https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|title=Brick House|website=The High Line|language=en-US|access-date=February 29, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203172347/https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the installation, Penn president Amy Guttman proclaimed that "Ms. Leigh's sculpture brings a striking presence of strength, grace, and beauty—along with an ineffable sense of mystery and resilience—to a central crossroad of Penn's campus."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|title=Towering bronze sculpture installed at the entrance to Penn's campus|website=Penn Today|date=November 10, 2020|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505160358/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Covenant Liberman 1976 a.JPG|thumb|''The Covenant'', designed by artist [[Alexander Liberman]] and installed at Penn in 1975]]
The ''Covenant'', known to the student body as "Dueling Tampons"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|title=Dueling Tees|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405140709/http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Dueling Tampons' graffitied |url=http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |website=The Daily Pennsylvanian |access-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402012804/https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |url-status=live }}</ref> or "The Tampons",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|title=The Tampons Look Like Tampons: A Public Reminder|website=thedp.com|access-date=May 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605042010/http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|archive-date=June 5, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> is a large red structure created by [[Alexander Liberman]] and located on Locust Walk as a gateway to the high-rise residences "super block". It was installed in 1975 and is made of rolled sheets of milled steel.

[[File:Jerusalem Stabile Calder 1976.JPG|thumb|''Jerusalem'', a stabile created in 1976 by [[Alexander Milne Calder|Alex "Sandy" Calder]], located between [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|Penn's School of Design]] and the Furness Fine Arts Library]]

A white button, known as [[The Button (sculpture)|The Button]] and officially called the Split Button is a [[modern art]] sculpture designed by designed by [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[sculptor]] [[Claes Oldenburg]] (who specialized in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects). It sits at the south entrance of [[Van Pelt Library]] and has button holes large enough for people to stand inside. Penn also has a replica of the ''[[Love (sculpture)|Love]]'' sculpture, part of a series created by [[Robert Indiana]]. It is a painted aluminum sculpture and was installed in 1998 overlooking College Green.<ref name="art1"/>
[[File:Love-sculpture-university-of-pennsylvania.JPG|thumb|The ''Love'' sculpture in 2006]]

In 2019, the [[Association for Public Art]] loaned Penn<ref name="twostatues">{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |title=Two monumental sculptures arrive on campus |work=Penn Today |last=Shepard |first=Louisa |date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304063140/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |url-status=live }}</ref> two multi-ton sculptures. The works are ''Social Consciousness'', created by [[Sir Jacob Epstein]] in 1954,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |title=Social Consciousness |website=sorocabana.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524132513/http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |archive-date=May 24, 2007}}</ref> and ''Atmosphere and Environment XII'', created by [[Louise Nevelson]] in 1970.<ref name="twostatues"/> Until the loan, both works had been located at the West Entrance to the [[Philadelphia Art Museum]], the older since its creation and the Nevelson work since 1973. ''Social Consciousness'' was relocated to the walkway between Wharton's [[Lippincott Library]] and Phi Phi chapter of [[Alpha Chi Rho]] fraternity house, and ''Atmosphere and Environment XII'' is sited on Shoemaker Green between [[Franklin Field]] and Ringe Squash Courts.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |title=aPA to Relocate Nevelson and Epstein Sculptures to Penn |newspaper=Association for Public Art |date=July 9, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303151154/https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall.JPG|thumb|The ''[[Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)|Statue of Benjamin Franklin]]'', honoring the university's founder, in front of [[College Hall (University of Pennsylvania)|College Hall]] on Penn's main campus<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Statue of Benjamin Franklin |url=https://archive.org/details/ceremoniesatten02stragoog|quote=justus c strawbridge.|access-date=November 24, 2007 |last=Strawbridge |first=Justus C. |publisher=Allen, Lane & Scott|isbn=978-1-103-92435-6|year=2009|orig-year=1899}}</ref>]]
In addition to the contemporary art, Penn also has several traditional statues, including a good number created by Penn's first Director of Physical Education Department, [[R. Tait McKenzie]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Joseph |last1=Hanaway |first2=Richard L. |last2=Cruess |title=McGill Medicine – 1885 to 1936 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |location=Montreal |year=1996 |page=56}}</ref> Among the notable sculptures is that of ''Young Ben Franklin'', which McKenzie produced and Penn sited adjacent to the fieldhouse contiguous to [[Franklin Field]]. The sculpture is titled ''[[Benjamin Franklin]] in 1723'' and was created by McKenzie during the pre-World War I era (1910–1914). 
[[File:Architecture on University of Pennsylvania Campus - Young Ben Franklin Statue - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - 04.jpg|thumb|Young Ben Franklin (at about age 17) Statue on Penn Campus in front of Franklin Field<ref>{{cite web |title=Benjamin Franklin in 1723 (or The Young Franklin) (1914) |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/benjamin-franklin-in-1723-or-the-young-franklin/ |website=[[Association for Public Art]] |access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref>]]

Other sculptures he produced for Penn include the 1924 sculpture of then Penn provost [[Edgar Fahs Smith]].
[[File:Edgar Fahs Smith - IMG 6621.JPG|thumb|Photo of sculpture of [[Edgar Fahs Smith]]]]

Penn is presently reevaluating all of its public art and has formed a working group led by Penn Design dean [[Frederick Steiner]], who was part of a similar effort at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] that led to the removal of statues of [[Jefferson Davis]] and other Confederate officials, and Penn's Chief Diversity Officer, Joann Mitchell. Penn has begun the process of adding art and removing or relocating art.<ref>{{cite web |work=Penn Today |date=April 5, 2021 |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |title=Reassessing iconography on campus |last=Hertzler |first=Lauren |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127001829/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |url-status=live }} and {{cite news |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |title=Penn to remove statue of slavery supporter, forms group to look at campus iconography' |first=Susan |last=Snyder}} and {{cite web |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |title=Campus Iconography Group Report |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414155242/https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn removed from campus in 2020 the statue of the Reverend [[George Whitefield]] (who had inspired the 1740 establishment of a trust to establish a charity school, which trust Penn legally assumed in 1749) when research showed Whitefield owned fifty enslaved people and drafted and advocated for the key theological arguments in favor of [[History of slavery in Georgia|slavery in Georgia]] and the [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|rest of]] the [[Thirteen Colonies]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |title=Penn announces plan to remove statue of slave owner George Whitefield from the Quad |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Weisman |first=Zoey |date=February 7, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401063907/https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Penn Museum===
{{Main|University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology}}
[[File:Penn_Museum's_Warden_Garden_and_Main_Entrance,_Summer_2012.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]] and Warden Garden]]

Since the founding of Penn Museum in 1887,<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Museum – Penn Museum |url=https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904102304/https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |url-status=live }}</ref> it has taken part in 400 research projects worldwide.<ref name="About UPM">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.penn.museum/about-us.html |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521153922/http://penn.museum/about-us.html|archive-date=May 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The museum's first project was an excavation of [[Nippur]], a location in present-day [[Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Research at the Penn Museum|url=http://www.penn.museum/research.html|work=Penn Museum|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811205610/http://penn.museum/research.html|archive-date=August 11, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Penn Museum is home to the largest authentic sphinx in North America, which is about seven feet high, four feet wide, 13 feet long, 12.9 tons, and made of solid red granite.

The sphinx was discovered in 1912 by the British archeologist, [[Flinders Petrie|Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie]], during an excavation of the ancient Egyptian city of [[Memphis, Egypt]], where the sphinx had guarded a temple to ward off evil. Since Petri's expedition was partially financed by Penn Petrie offered it to Penn, which arranged for it to be moved to museum in 1913. The sphinx was moved in 2019 to a more prominent spot intended to attract visitors.<ref>Crimmins, Peter (June 12, 2019). [https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/ "Like 'Back to the Future': Penn Museum floats its ancient sphinx to a new home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410041015/https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/amp/ |date=April 10, 2021 }}.</ref>

The museum has three gallery floors with artifacts from [[Egypt]], the Middle East, [[Mesoamerica]], Asia, the Mediterranean, Africa and indigenous artifacts of the Americas.<ref name="About UPM"/> Its most famous object is the goat rearing into the branches of a rosette-leafed plant, from the [[Ur III|royal tombs of Ur]].

Penn Museum's excavations and collections foster a strong research base for graduate students in the [[Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World]]. Features of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building include a [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] and gardens that include Egyptian [[papyrus]].

===Other Penn museums and galleries===
{{Further|Arthur Ross Gallery|Fisher Fine Arts Library|Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia}}
Penn maintains a website providing a detailed roadmap to small museums and galleries and over one hundred locations across campus where the public can access Penn's over 8,000 artworks acquired over 250 years, which includes paintings, sculptures, photography, works on paper, and decorative arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|title=Curator's Welcome — The Penn Art Collection|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404143017/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest of the art galleries is the [[Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia|Institute of Contemporary Art]], one of the only [[kunsthalle]]s in the country, which showcases various art exhibitions throughout the year. Since 1983, the [[Arthur Ross Gallery]], located at the [[Fisher Fine Arts Library]], has housed Penn's art collection<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|website=Arthur Ross Gallery|access-date=December 21, 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221165820/http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> and is named for its benefactor, philanthropist [[Arthur Ross (philanthropist)|Arthur Ross]].

===Residences===
{{Main|University of Pennsylvania College Houses}}
[[File:Upper Quad Gate in the fall.jpg|thumb|The Upper Quad Gate to the first dormitory primarily built in the 20th Century, which forms the lower part of Memorial Tower and honors veterans of the [[Spanish–American War]]]]
Every College House at the University of Pennsylvania has at least four members of faculty in the roles of House Dean, Faculty Master, and College House Fellows.<ref name="College House PDF">{{cite web|title=College Houses at Penn|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|work=College Houses and Academic Services|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-date=October 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001225828/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Within the College Houses, Penn has nearly 40 themed residential programs for students with shared interests such as world cinema or science and technology. Many of the nearby homes and apartments in the area surrounding the campus are often rented by undergraduate students moving off campus after their first year, as well as by graduate and professional students.
The College Houses include W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisher Hassenfeld, Gregory, Gutmann, Harnwell, Harrison, [[Hill College House]], Kings Court English, Lauder, Riepe, Rodin, Stouffer, and Ware. The first College House was Van Pelt College House, established in the fall of 1971. It was later renamed Gregory House.<ref>{{cite web|title=College Houses & Academic Services: University of Pennsylvania|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|website=Collegehouses.upenn.edu|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-date=August 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812121818/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fisher Hassenfeld, Ware and Riepe together make up one building called "The Quad". The latest College House to be built is Guttman<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | title=Gutmann College House {{pipe}} College Houses & Academic Services | access-date=June 3, 2023 | archive-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528211918/https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | url-status=live }}</ref> (formerly named New College House West), which opened in the fall of 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn to Build New College House Near 40th and Walnut Streets: University of Pennsylvania|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets|access-date=May 15, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129215203/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets}}</ref>

Penn students in Junior or Senior year may live in the 45 sororities and fraternities governed by three student-run governing councils, Interfraternity Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennifc.org/chapters/|title=Chapters|work=University of Pennsylvania IFC |date=August 27, 2020|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214020/https://upennifc.org/chapters/|url-status=live}}</ref> Intercultural Greek Council, and Panhellenic Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|title=Organizations to Join – Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517163254/https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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University of Pennsylvania- its history, traditions, buildings and memorials- also a brief guide to Philadelphia (1918) (14578281487).jpg|The university's first purpose-built dormitory in the foreground (on right), built in 1765<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |title=Penn's First Campus, 1749–1801 |website=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212121739/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |url-status=live }}</ref>|alt=
Penn campus 2.jpg|The Upper Quad, originally called The Triangle,<ref>{{cite book |first=George Erazmus |last=Nitzche |title=The University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials |location=Philadelphia |publisher=International Printing Company |edition=7th |date=1918 |pages=62–74 |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofpenn01nitz/page/65/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=April 5, 2021 |via=The Internet Archive}}</ref> and formerly "The Men's Dormitory", viewed from the Memorial Tower<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|title=For the Record: Quadrangle dormitories|website=Penn Today|date=November 15, 2012|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405123006/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|url-status=live}}</ref>|alt=
Woodland Walk.jpg|Woodland Walk pathway between [[University of Pennsylvania College Houses|Hill College House]] and Lauder College House|alt=
Hill College House - IMG 6582.JPG|[[Hill College House]], a dormitory designed in 1958 to house female students, was designed by [[Eero Saarinen]]|alt=
Quadrangle Building at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|"The Quad", formerly known as the Men's Dormitory, in 2014|alt=
George W. Childs Drexel Mansion (now Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity) - University of Pennsylvania - IMG 6638.jpg|The [[Alpha Tau Omega]] fraternity house, built by George W. Childs Drexel as one of two mansions for his daughters|alt=
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==Organization==
{{seealso|List of presidents of the University of Pennsylvania}}
{{Graduate schools of the University of Pennsylvania}}
The [[University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]] is the undergraduate division of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences|School of Arts and Sciences]]. The School of Arts and Sciences also contains the [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate Division School of Arts & Sciences|Graduate Division]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies|College of Liberal and Professional Studies]], which is home to the [[Fels Institute of Government]], the master's programs in Organizational Dynamics, and the Environmental Studies (MES) program. [[Wharton School]] is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. Other schools with undergraduate programs include the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|School of Nursing]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)]].

The current president is [[J. Larry Jameson]] (interim).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/12/penn-larry-jameson-interim-president | title=Perelman School of Medicine Dean J. Larry Jameson named Penn's interim president }}</ref>
===Campus police===
The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD) is the largest private police department in Pennsylvania, with 117 members. All officers are sworn municipal police officers and retain general law enforcement authority while on the campus.<ref name="PPD">{{cite web|title=Penn Police Department|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/about/uppd/|access-date=November 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603025235/https://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/about/uppd/|archive-date=June 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Seal===
[[File:1757 UPenn Seal.png|thumb|upright|The 1757 seal of the academy and College of Philadelphia]]

The official [[Seal (emblem)|seal]] of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania serves as the signature and symbol of authenticity on documents issued by the corporation.<ref name="sealFAQ">{{cite web|url=https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secretary/FAQ.html|title=Frequently Asked Questions: Questions about the University|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031005744/https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secretary/FAQ.html|archive-date=October 31, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The most recent design, a modified version of the original seal, was approved in 1932, adopted a year later and is still used for much of the same purposes as the original.<ref name="sealFAQ"/>
The official [[Seal (emblem)|seal]] of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania serves as the signature and symbol of authenticity on documents issued by the corporation.<ref name="sealFAQ"/> A request for one was first recorded in a meeting of the trustees in 1753 during which some of the Trustees "desired to get a Common Seal engraved for the Use of [the] Corporation." In 1756, a public seal and motto for the college was engraved in silver.<ref name="Coleman 1749–1768 36, 68">{{cite book|last=Coleman|first=William|title=Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, volume 1|year=1749–1768|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|location=University of Pennsylvania Archives|pages=36, 68|url=http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|access-date=October 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607062521/http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=11133|archive-date=June 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

The outer ring of the current seal is inscribed with "Universitas Pennsylvaniensis", the Latin name of the University of Pennsylvania. The inside contains seven stacked books on a desk with the titles of subjects of the [[trivium]] and a modified [[quadrivium]], components of a classical education: Theolog[ia], Astronom[ia], Philosoph[ia], Mathemat[ica], Logica, Rhetorica and Grammatica. Between the books and the outer ring is the Latin motto of the university, "Leges Sine Moribus Vanae".<ref name="sealFAQ"/>

[[File:University of Pennsylvania seal 1894.svg|thumb|right|Updated seal of the University of Pennsylvania with present name of school in Latin]]

==Academics==

Penn's "One University Policy" allows students to enroll in classes in any of Penn's twelve schools.<ref name="Meyerson, Martin 1973">Meyerson, Martin (January 29, 1973). "Report of the University Development Commission" (PDF). ''upenn.com''. Retrieved June 16, 2018.</ref>

Penn has a strong focus on interdisciplinary learning and research. It offers double degree programs, unique majors, and academic flexibility. Penn's "One University" policy allows undergraduates access to courses at all of Penn's undergraduate and graduate schools except the medical, veterinary and dental schools. Undergraduates at Penn may also take courses at [[Bryn Mawr College|Bryn Mawr]], [[Haverford College|Haverford]], and [[Swarthmore College|Swarthmore]] under a reciprocal agreement known as the [[Quaker Consortium]].

=== Admissions ===
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="text-align:right;"
|+ Fall first-year statistics, by year
!
!scope="col"| 2022<ref name="CDS_2020-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2020–2021 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2020-21.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=June 25, 2021 |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817153509/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2020-21.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2019<ref name="CDS_2019-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2019–2020 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2019-20.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=May 19, 2020 |archive-date=August 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818062310/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2019-20.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2018<ref name="CDS_2018-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2018–2019 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2018-19.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=March 8, 2019 |archive-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707023032/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2018-19.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
!scope="col"| 2017<ref name="CDS_2017-FF">{{cite web |title=Common Data Set 2017–2018 |url=https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2017-18.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 19, 2022 |pages=35, 11 |date=November 5, 2018 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702085637/https://ira.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/UPenn-Common-Data-Set-2017-18.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"| Applicants
| 54,588
| 44,961
| 44,491
| 40,413
|-
!scope="row"| Admits
| 3,404
| 3,446
| 3,740
| 3,757
|-
!scope="row"| Admit rate
| 4.24%
| 6.66%
| 7.41%
| 8.30%
|-
!scope="row"| Enrolled
| 2,417
| 2,400
| 2,518
| 2,456
|-
!scope="row"| [[Yield (college admissions)|Yield]]
| 68.18%
| 69.65%
| 67.33%
| 65.37%
|-
!scope="row"| SAT range*
| 1510–1560
| 1450–1560
| 1440–1560
| 1420–1560
|-
!scope="row"| ACT range*
| 34–36
| 33–35
| 32–35
| 32–35
|}
{{asterisk}} SAT and ACT ranges are from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
Undergraduate admissions to the University of Pennsylvania is considered by ''[[U.S. News & World Report|US News]]'' to be "most selective". Admissions officials consider a student's [[Grading in education|GPA]] to be a very important academic factor, with emphasis on an applicant's high school class rank and letters of recommendation.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-pennsylvania-3378/applying|access-date=February 3, 2021|website=[[U.S. News & World Report]]: Education|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194344/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-pennsylvania-3378/applying|url-status=live}}</ref> Admission is [[need-blind]] for U.S., Canadian, and Mexican applicants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Financial Aid At Penn |url=https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/cost-and-financial-aid/financial-aid-at-penn |website=Penn admissions |access-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223230031/https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/cost-and-financial-aid/financial-aid-at-penn |url-status=live }}</ref>

For the class of 2026, entering in Fall 2022, the university received 54,588 applications.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tilitei|first=Leanna|title=Penn accepts record-low 5.68% of applicants to the Class of 2025|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate|access-date=January 19, 2022|website=thedp.com|language=en-us|archive-date=March 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317060620/https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/04/penn-admissions-class-of-2025-acceptance-rate|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The Atlantic]]'' also ranked Penn among the 10 most selective schools in the country. At the graduate level, based on admission statistics from ''U.S. News & World Report'', Penn's most selective programs include its law school, the health care schools (medicine, dental medicine, nursing, veterinary), the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Wharton School.

===Coordinated dual-degree, accelerated, interdisciplinary programs===
[[File:Smith Walk, view of Towne Hall.JPG|thumb|Smith Walk with a view of Towne Building and the Engineering Quad]]

Penn offers unique and specialized [[double degree|coordinated dual-degree]] (CDD) programs, which selectively award candidates degrees from multiple schools at the university upon completion of graduation criteria of both schools in addition to program-specific programs and senior capstone projects. Additionally, there are accelerated and interdisciplinary programs offered by the university. These undergraduate programs include:
* Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business<ref>{{cite web|url=https://huntsman.upenn.edu/|title=The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business|website=The Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182853/https://huntsman.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology (M&T)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fisher.wharton.upenn.edu/|title=Home|website=Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182435/https://fisher.wharton.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (LSM)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lsm.upenn.edu/|title=Home {{pipe}} Penn Life Sciences & Management Program|website=lsm.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184138/https://lsm.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Nursing and Health Care Management (NHCM)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhcm/|title=Nursing and Healthcare Management Dual Degree Program|website=nursing.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182551/https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhcm/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Roy and Diana Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.viper.upenn.edu/|title=VIPER {{pipe}} Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research {{pipe}} Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research|website=viper.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184139/https://www.viper.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences (MLS)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/biochem/faq.html|title=Vagelos MLS Scholars: Frequently Asked Questions|website=sas.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184134/https://www.sas.upenn.edu/biochem/faq.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Singh Program in Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nets.upenn.edu/|title=Networked & Social Systems Engineering|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116184138/https://www.nets.upenn.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Digital Media Design (DMD)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/dmd.html|title=CG@Penn {{pipe}} DMD Program|website=cg.cis.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=November 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124222423/http://cg.cis.upenn.edu/dmd.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Computer and Cognitive Science: Artificial Intelligence<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cis.upenn.edu/undergraduate/program-options/computer-and-cognitive-science-dual-degree/|title=Computer and Cognitive Science Dual Degree|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182635/https://www.cis.upenn.edu/undergraduate/program-options/computer-and-cognitive-science-dual-degree/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Accelerated 7-Year Bio-Dental Program<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bio.upenn.edu/undergraduate/submatriculation/accelerated-dental-program|title=Seven Year Bio-Dental Program {{pipe}} Department of Biology|website=bio.upenn.edu|access-date=January 16, 2022|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182512/https://www.bio.upenn.edu/undergraduate/submatriculation/accelerated-dental-program|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Accelerated 6-Year Law and Medicine Program<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160623_Penn_to_launch_joint_degree_program_in_law_and_medicine.html|title=Penn to launch joint degree program in law and medicine|website=Philly.com|date=June 22, 2016 |access-date=June 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623143541/http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160623_Penn_to_launch_joint_degree_program_in_law_and_medicine.html|archive-date=June 23, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dual-degree programs that lead to the same multiple degrees without participation in the specific above programs are also available. Unlike CDD programs, "dual degree" students fulfill requirements of both programs independently without the involvement of another program. Specialized dual-degree programs include Liberal Studies and Technology as well as an Artificial Intelligence: Computer and Cognitive Science Program. Both programs award a degree from the College of Arts and Sciences and a degree from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Also, the Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences allows its students to either double major in the sciences or submatriculate and earn both a BA and an MS in four years. The most recent Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) was first offered for the class of 2016. A joint program of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, VIPER leads to dual Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees by combining majors from each school.

For graduate programs, Penn offers many formalized double degree graduate degrees such as a joint J.D./MBA and maintains a list of interdisciplinary institutions, such as the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management and International Studies, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

The [[School of Social Policy and Practice]], commonly known as Penn SP2, is a school of [[social policy]] and [[social work]] that offers degrees in a variety of subfields, in addition to several dual degree programs and sub-matriculation programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/programs/index.html|title=SP2 Programs|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=June 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140622205941/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/programs/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-social-policy-and-practice-program-in-social-work-000_10013879.aspx|title=Peterson's National Guide University of Pennsylvania SP2|publisher=Petersons|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523105504/https://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-school-of-social-policy-and-practice-program-in-social-work-000_10013879.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/degree-programs/dual-degree-programs/overview/about-the-programs/|title=About the Programs {{!}} School of Social Policy & Practice|website=sp2.upenn.edu|access-date=June 30, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730133126/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/degree-programs/dual-degree-programs/overview/about-the-programs/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Penn SP2's vision is: "The passionate pursuit of social innovation, impact and [[justice]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|title=About SP2|publisher=University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715142716/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Originally named the School of Social Work, SP2 was founded in 1908 and is a graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. The school specializes in research, education, and policy development in relation to both social and economic issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|title=SP2 Vision|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715142716/http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graduateguide.com/university_of_pennsylvania_school_of_social_policy__and__practice.html|title=SP2 School of Social Policy & Practice|date=August 10, 2018|publisher=Graduate Guide|access-date=May 16, 2020|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014160149/http://www.graduateguide.com/university_of_pennsylvania_school_of_social_policy__and__practice.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine|School of Veterinary Medicine]] offers five dual-degree programs, combining the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (VMD) with a Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Environmental Studies (MES), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Public Health (MPH) or Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree. The Penn Vet dual-degree programs are meant to support veterinarians planning to engage in interdisciplinary work in the areas of human health, environmental health, and animal health and welfare.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hackett |first=Martin |title=Penn Vet expands timely dual degree during COVID-19 pandemic {{!}} Penn Today |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-vet-expands-timely-dual-degree-during-covid-19-pandemic |website=Penn Today |date=September 11, 2020 |access-date=September 14, 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929182807/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-vet-expands-timely-dual-degree-during-covid-19-pandemic |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Academic medical center and biomedical research complex===
In 2018, the university's nursing school was ranked number one by [[Quacquarelli Symonds]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-upenn-nursing-ranking-top-qs-world-global-ivy-satisfaction-league-philadelphia|title=Penn Nursing ranked top in the world, but receives mediocre score for 'employer reputation'|last=Chin|first=Zachary|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161811/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-upenn-nursing-ranking-top-qs-world-global-ivy-satisfaction-league-philadelphia|url-status=live}}</ref> That year, Quacquarelli Symonds also ranked Penn's school of Veterinary Medicine sixth.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/feb/28/qs-world-university-rankings-2018-veterinary-science|title=QS world university rankings 2018: veterinary science|date=February 28, 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=February 25, 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161814/https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/feb/28/qs-world-university-rankings-2018-veterinary-science|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, the Perelman School of Medicine was named the third-best medical school for research in ''U.S. News & World Report's'' 2020 ranking.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/03/perelman-school-of-medicine-ranking-us-news-third-place-penn|title=Perelman School of Medicine ranked third place for research in U.S. News report|last=Hachenburg|first=Carmina|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225161822/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/03/perelman-school-of-medicine-ranking-us-news-third-place-penn|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[University of Pennsylvania Health System]], also known as UPHS, is a multi-hospital [[health system]] headquartered in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], owned by Trustees of University of Pennsylvania. UPHS and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania together constitute Penn Medicine, a clinical and research entity of the University of Pennsylvania. UPHS hospitals include the [[Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/capital/penn-medicine-to-open-1-6b-hospital-in-october.html |title=Penn Medicine to open $1.6B hospital in October |website=Becker's Hospital Review |last=Ellison |first=Alya |date=September 22, 2021 |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022191354/https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/capital/penn-medicine-to-open-1-6b-hospital-in-october.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Penn Presbyterian Medical Center]], [[Pennsylvania Hospital]], Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital, and Princeton Medical Center.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/pa/hospital-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania-6231900 |title=Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213174833/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/pa/hospital-of-the-university-of-pennsylvania-6231900 |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn Medicine owns and operates the first hospital in the United States, the [[Pennsylvania Hospital]].<ref>{{cite book | title=America's First Hospital: The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751–1841 | url=https://archive.org/details/americasfirsthos0000will | url-access=registration | publisher=Haverford House | last=Williams |first=William Henry | year=1976 | isbn=9780910702027}}</ref> It is also home to America's first surgical amphitheatre<ref name="pennmedicine.org">{{cite web|title=Visitor Information for Pennsylvania Hospital|url=http://www.pennmedicine.org/pahosp/visitor-information/|work=University of Pennsylvania|publisher=Penn Medicine|access-date=September 23, 2021|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032038/http://www.pennmedicine.org/pahosp/visitor-information/|url-status=live}}</ref> and its first medical library.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Weise|first=F|date=Jan 2004|title=Being there: the library as place.|journal=Journal of the Medical Library Association|volume=92|issue=1|pages=6–13|pmc=314099|pmid=14762459}}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" heights="80px">
The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia MET DT1811.jpg|The [[Pennsylvania Hospital]] as painted by [[Pavel Svinyin]] in 1811
Hamilton Walk at the Perelman School of Medicine.jpg|[[Perelman School of Medicine]]
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center East Side.jpg|Penn-owned Princeton Medical Center, eastern facade
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===International partnerships===
Students can study abroad for a semester or a year at partner institutions, which include the [[Singapore Management University]], [[London School of Economics]], [[University of Edinburgh]], [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]], [[University of Melbourne]], [[Sciences Po]], [[University of Queensland]], [[University College London]], [[King's College London]], [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], and [[ETH Zurich]].

===Reputation and rankings===
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''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''{{'}}s 2024 rankings place Penn 6th of 394 national universities in the United States.<ref name="Rankings_USNWR_NU" /> [[The Princeton Review]] student survey ranked Penn in 2023 as 7th in their Dream Colleges list.<ref>{{cite web |title=2024 College Hopes & Worries Survey Results Are Here! |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/college-hopes-worries |access-date=January 20, 2024 |website=[[The Princeton Review]] |language=en}}</ref> Penn was ranked 4th of 444 in the United States by College Factual for 2024.<ref>{{cite web |title=2024 Best Colleges in the United States |url=https://www.collegefactual.com/rankings/best-colleges/ |website=College Factual |access-date=January 20, 2024 |language=en}}</ref> In 2023, Penn was ranked as having the seventh-happiest students in the United States and the most happy among all Ivy League universities.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/pa-university-among-top-happiest-colleges-in-us-report.html | title=Pa. University among top 'happiest colleges' in U.S.: Report | newspaper=Pennlive | date=March 27, 2023 | access-date=March 30, 2023 | archive-date=March 30, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330060811/https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/pa-university-among-top-happiest-colleges-in-us-report.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/03/penn-ranked-happiest-university-pennsylvania-seventh-national |title=Penn ranked happiest college in Pennsylvania, No. 7-happiest in country by new study |last1=Binday |first1=Ben |access-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402041952/https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/03/penn-ranked-happiest-university-pennsylvania-seventh-national |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Wall Street Journal]] reported in 2024 that Penn's undergraduate alumni earned the 5th highest salaries (taking into account the cost of education and other factors<ref>Note: see methodology in '''WSJ / College Pulse Rankings Best Salaries''' https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/salary-impact-2025?mod=article_inline&wsj_native_webview</ref>), which was 2nd in Ivy League behind Princeton.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/rankings/college-rankings/salary-impact-2025?mod=article_inline&wsj_native_webview=android&ace_environment=androidphone%2Cwebview&ace_config=%7B%22wsj%22%3A%7B%22djcmp%22%3A%7B%22propertyHref%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwsj.android.app%22%7D%7D%7D] {{subscription required|via=The Wall Street Journal}} accessed September 10, 2024</ref>{{verify inline|date=August 2025|reason=Not able to verify this URL; is a better one available?}}

Among its professional schools, the [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education|school of education]] was ranked number one in 2021 and [[Wharton School]] was ranked number one in 2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings |title=2023 Best Business Schools |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=March 30, 2022 |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314003952/https://www.usnews.com/best%2Dgraduate%2Dschools/top%2Dbusiness%2Dschools/mba%2Drankings |url-status=live }}</ref> and 2024<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ethier |first1=Marc |title=The Top 100 Business Schools, Ranked By Research |url=https://poetsandquants.com/2024/03/29/the-top-100-business-schools-ranked-by-research-3/ |website=Poets & Quants |access-date=30 March 2024 |date=29 March 2024}}</ref> and the [[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania|communication]], [[University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine|dentistry]], [[Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania|medicine]], [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|nursing]], [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|law]] and [[University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine|veterinary]] schools rank in the top 5 nationally.<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-215062/overall-rankings|title=University of Pennsylvania Grad Schools|website=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=March 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320130149/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-215062/overall-rankings|archive-date=March 20, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn's [[University of Pennsylvania Law School|Law School]] was ranked number 4 in 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |title=2023 Best Law Schools |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-date=January 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113091457/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref> and Penn's [[Stuart Weitzman School of Design|School of Design and Architecture]], and its School of Social Policy and Practice are ranked in the top 10.<ref name="auto1"/>

==Research==
[[File:Eniac.jpg|thumb|[[ENIAC]], the first general-purpose electronic computer, founded at Penn in 1946]]

Penn is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] as an "R1" doctoral university: "Highest research activity".<ref name="RU/VH">{{cite web |title=University of Pennsylvania |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=215062 |publisher=[[Center for Postsecondary Research]] |date=2018 |access-date=August 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806025108/http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=215062 |archive-date=August 6, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Its economic impact on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 2015 amounted to {{USD|14.3&nbsp;billion|long=no}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mobile.philly.com/business/?wss=/philly/business&id=369185191&betaPreview=redesign|title=Study: Penn has $14.3B economic impact|date=February 18, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301212924/http://mobile.philly.com/business/?wss=%2Fphilly%2Fbusiness&id=369185191&betaPreview=redesign|archive-date=March 1, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn had research expenditures totaling over {{USD|1.9 billion|long=no}} in 2023, raking third among U.S. universities in [[List of countries by research and development spending|research and development spending]], according to the [[National Science Foundation]].<ref name="NCSES" /> In fiscal year 2019 Penn received {{USD|582.3 million|long=no}} in funding from the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2019&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= |title=NIH Awards by Location & Organization |publisher=National Institutes of Health |access-date=May 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510232335/https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2019&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= |url-status=live }}</ref>

Penn's research centers often span two or more disciplines. In the 2010–2011 academic year, five interdisciplinary research centers were created or substantially expanded; these include the Center for Health-care Financing,<ref>{{cite news|title=New Penn Medicine/Wharton Center to Study Health-care Financing|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/new-center-study-health-care-financing|access-date=September 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031005716/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/new-center-study-health-care-financing|archive-date=October 31, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> the Center for Global Women's Health at the Nursing School,<ref>{{cite news|title=Nursing Goes Global |url=https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/2011-06-09/news-brief/nursing-goes-global/|publisher=Penn Current |date=June 9, 2011|access-date=May 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604194258/https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/2011-06-09/news-brief/nursing-goes-global/|archive-date=June 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> the Morris Arboretum's Horticulture Center,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/spotlights/morris-arboretum-sustainability|title=Morris Arboretum's Horticulture Center is a Model of Workaday Sustainability|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605024346/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/spotlights/morris-arboretum-sustainability|archive-date=June 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at Wharton<ref name=bakercenter>{{cite web|title=Wharton School Announces $15 Million Gift from Patty and Jay H. Baker to Establish the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center|date=October 28, 2010|url=http://news.wharton.upenn.edu/press-releases/2010/10/wharton-school-announces-15-million-gift-from-patty-and-jay-h-baker-to-establish-the-jay-h-baker-retailing-center/|publisher=The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010224456/http://news.wharton.upenn.edu/press-releases/2010/10/wharton-school-announces-15-million-gift-from-patty-and-jay-h-baker-to-establish-the-jay-h-baker-retailing-center/|archive-date=October 10, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Translational Research Center at Penn Medicine.<ref>{{cite news|title=Penn Med receives $13&nbsp;million for new research center|url=http://www.thedp.com/article/penn-med-receives-13-million-new-research-center|author=Nadine Zylberberg|date=September 17, 2010|newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=April 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829004648/http://thedp.com/article/penn-med-receives-13-million-new-research-center|archive-date=August 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> With these additions, Penn now counts 165 research centers hosting a research community of over 4,300 faculty and over 1,100 postdoctoral fellows, 5,500 academic support staff and graduate student trainees.<ref name="Facts"/> To further assist the advancement of interdisciplinary research President [[Amy Gutmann]] established the "Penn Integrates Knowledge" title awarded to selected Penn professors "whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge."<ref name="PIK Professors">{{cite web|url=https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu|title=Penn's PIK Professors|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011115012/https://pikprofessors.upenn.edu/|archive-date=October 11, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> These professors hold endowed professorships and joint appointments between Penn's schools.

Penn is also among the most prolific producers of doctoral students. With 487 PhDs awarded in 2009, Penn ranks third in the Ivy League behind [[Columbia University|Columbia]] and [[Cornell University|Cornell]]; [[Harvard University|Harvard]] did not report data.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/09tables.xls|title=Association of Research Libraries Annual Tables|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117065649/http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/09tables.xls|archive-date=January 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also has one of the highest numbers of post-doctoral appointees (933 in number for 2004–2007), ranking third in the Ivy League (behind Harvard and Yale) and tenth nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mup.asu.edu/AnyFed2002-2007/Postdoc_App_2001-2007.xls|title=MUP Post Doctoral Appointees Table|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822182913/http://mup.asu.edu/AnyFed2002-2007/Postdoc_App_2001-2007.xls|archive-date=August 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In most disciplines Penn professors' productivity is among the highest in the nation and first in the fields of epidemiology, business, communication studies, comparative literature, languages, information science, criminal justice and criminology, social sciences and sociology.<ref name="chronicle.com">{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&institution=3257&byinst=Go|title=The Chronicle of Higher Education Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117162745/http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/page.php?year=2007&institution=3257&byinst=Go|archive-date=January 17, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]] nearly three-quarters of Penn's 41 assessed programs were placed in ranges including the top 10 rankings in their fields, with more than half of these in ranges including the top five rankings in these fields.<ref>{{cite web|last=Holtzman|first=Phyllis|title=National Research Council Ranks Penn's Graduate Programs Among Nation's Best|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/national-research-council-ranks-penn-s-graduate-programs-among-nations-best|work=Penn News|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630113527/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/national-research-council-ranks-penn-s-graduate-programs-among-nations-best|archive-date=June 30, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

Penn's research tradition has historically been complemented by innovations that shaped higher education. In addition to establishing the first medical school, the first university teaching hospital, the oldest continuously operating degree-granting program in [[chemical engineering]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/fast-facts/ | title=Fast Facts | access-date=December 31, 2022 | archive-date=December 31, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231200656/https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/fast-facts/ | url-status=live }}</ref> the first business school, and the first student union, Penn was also the cradle of other significant developments.

In 1852, Penn Law was the first law school in the nation to publish a law journal still in existence (then called ''The American Law Register,'' now the ''[[University of Pennsylvania Law Review|Penn Law Review]]'', one of the most cited law journals in the world).<ref>{{cite web|title=Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking|url=http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx|publisher=Washington and Lee University School of Law|access-date=November 10, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121012415/http://lawlib.wlu.edu/lj/index.aspx|archive-date=November 21, 2011}}</ref> Under the deanship of [[William Draper Lewis]], the law school was also one of the first schools to emphasize legal teaching by full-time professors instead of practitioners, a system that is still followed today.<ref>Owen Roberts, "William Draper Lewis", 89 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1949)</ref>

The [[Wharton School]] was home to several pioneering developments in business education. It established the first research center in a business school in 1921 and the first center for entrepreneurship in 1973<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about/wharton-history.cfm|title=Wharton History|newspaper=The Wharton School |access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828064630/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/about/wharton-history.cfm|archive-date=August 28, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> and it regularly introduced novel curricula for which ''[[BusinessWeek]]'' wrote, "Wharton is on the crest of a wave of reinvention and change in management education."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/innovationHistory/leaders.html|title=Wharton: A Century of Innovation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181606/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/innovationHistory/leaders.html|archive-date=January 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Best B Schools Move over, Northwestern – this time, Wharton is No. 1|url=http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre94/b339564.htm|access-date=November 10, 2011|newspaper=Businessweek|date=October 24, 1994|author=John Byrne|author2=Lori Bongiorno|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102110445/http://www.businessweek.com/1989-94/pre94/b339564.htm|archive-date=November 2, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university has also contributed major advancements in the fields of economics and management. Among the many discoveries are [[conjoint analysis]], widely used as a predictive tool especially in market research, [[Simon Kuznets]]'s method of measuring [[gross national product]],<ref name="Ideas">{{cite web|url=http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/infodocs/alum_mag/am07anniv.pdf|title=125 Influential People and Ideas|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610064028/http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/infodocs/alum_mag/am07anniv.pdf|archive-date=June 10, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Penn effect]] (the observation that consumer price levels in richer countries are systematically higher than in poorer ones) and the "Wharton Model"<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/727461/Wharton-Model|title=Wharton Model (economics) – Britannica Online Encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Britannica.com|access-date=March 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919212318/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/727461/Wharton-Model|archive-date=September 19, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> developed by Nobel-laureate [[Lawrence Klein]] to measure and forecast economic activity. The idea behind [[Health Maintenance Organization]]s also belonged to Penn professor Robert Eilers, who put it into practice during then-president Nixon's health reform in the 1970s.<ref name="Ideas"/>

Several major scientific discoveries have also taken place at Penn. The university is probably best known as the place where the first general-purpose electronic computer (ENIAC) was born in 1946 at the [[Moore School of Electrical Engineering]].<ref name="Moore Engineering">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/computers/intro.html|title=Important Milestones and Fascinating Innovations During the Last Fifty Years of Computing Research at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009144750/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/computers/intro.html|archive-date=October 9, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> It was here also where the world's first spelling and grammar checkers were created, as well as the popular [[COBOL]] programming language.<ref name="Moore Engineering"/>

Penn can also boast some of the most important discoveries in the field of medicine. The [[Kidney dialysis|dialysis]] machine used as an artificial replacement for lost kidney function was conceived and devised out of a pressure cooker by William Inouye while he was still a student at Penn Med;<ref name="M1">{{cite web|url=http://www.med.upenn.edu/research/visitors/highlights.shtml|title=Some Research Highlights at Penn Medicine|access-date=August 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620150709/http://www.med.upenn.edu/research/visitors/highlights.shtml|archive-date=June 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Rubella]] and [[Hepatitis B]] vaccines were developed at Penn;<ref name="M1"/> the discovery of cancer's link with genes, [[cognitive therapy]], [[Retin-A]] (the cream used to treat acne), [[Resistin]], the [[Philadelphia gene]] (linked to [[chronic myelogenous leukemia]]) and the technology behind [[Positron Emission Tomography|PET Scans]] were all discovered by Penn Med researchers.<ref name="M1"/> More recent gene research has led to the discovery of the genes for [[fragile X syndrome]], the most common form of inherited mental retardation; [[spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy]], a disorder marked by progressive muscle wasting; [[Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease]], a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the hands, feet and limbs;<ref name="M1"/> and genetically engineered T cells used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia and refractory diffuse large B cell lymphoma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/junelab/|title=June Lab|website=Penn Medicine Center for Cellular Immunotherapies|access-date=July 24, 2021|archive-date=August 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820221523/https://www.med.upenn.edu/cci/junelab/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>T Cell cancer therapy research conducted by [[Carl H. June]] who, as of July 2021, is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the [[Perelman School of Medicine]] of the University of Pennsylvania see also {{cite web |url=https://www.amc.edu/news/trailblazing-researchers-in-immunotherapy-selected-to-receive-americas-most-distinguished-prize-in-medicine.cfm |title=Trailblazing Researchers in Immunotherapy Selected to Receive America's Most Distinguished Prize in Medicine |publisher=Albany Medical College |date=August 15, 2018 |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213022052/https://www.amc.edu/news/trailblazing-researchers-in-immunotherapy-selected-to-receive-americas-most-distinguished-prize-in-medicine.cfm |url-status=live }}</ref> Another contribution to medicine was made by [[Ralph L. Brinster]] (Penn faculty member since 1965) who developed the scientific basis for [[in vitro fertilization]] and the transgenic mouse at Penn and was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]] in 2010.

Penn professors [[Alan J. Heeger]], [[Alan MacDiarmid]] and [[Hideki Shirakawa]] invented a [[conductive polymer]] process that earned them the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]. The theory of [[BCS theory|superconductivity]] was also partly developed at Penn, by then-faculty member [[John Robert Schrieffer]] (along with [[John Bardeen]] and [[Leon Cooper]]).

Penn professors [[Carl H. June|Carl June]] and Michael C. Milone at [[Penn Medicine]] developed [[Tisagenlecleucel|Kymriah]], the first FDA-approved [[CAR T cell therapy]] for treating certain types of leukemia, approved in August 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Commissioner |first=Office of the |date=March 24, 2020 |title=FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United States |url=https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approval-brings-first-gene-therapy-united-states |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513202720/https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approval-brings-first-gene-therapy-united-states |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 13, 2019 |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=FDA |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Braendstrup |first1=Peter |last2=Levine |first2=Bruce L. |last3=Ruella |first3=Marco |date=February 2020 |title=The Long Road to the First FDA Approved Gene Therapy: Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Targeting CD19 |journal=Cytotherapy |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=57–69 |doi=10.1016/j.jcyt.2019.12.004 |issn=1465-3249 |pmc=7036015 |pmid=32014447}}</ref>

==Student life==
{{main article|University of Pennsylvania student life}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; float:right; font-size:95%; margin-left:2em;"
|+ Ethnic breakdown of enrollment
!scope="col"| Ethnic enrollment,<br />fall 2018<ref name=CDS1>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202017-18.pdf?pdf=CDS%202017-18 |title=University of Pennsylvania Common Data Set 2017–2018, Part B2 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=November 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125030709/http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Common%20Data%20Set/UPenn%20Common%20Data%20Set%202017-18.pdf?pdf=CDS%202017-18|archive-date=November 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
!scope="col" data-sort-type=number | Number (percentage)<br />of undergraduates
|-
!scope="row"| [[African Americans|African American]]
|715 (7.1%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
|12 (0.1%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] and<br />[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]]
|2,084 (20.7%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic and<br />Latino American]]
|1,044 (10.4%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[White Americans|White]]
|4,278 (42.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[International student|International]]
|1,261 (12.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| [[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races]],<br />non-Hispanic
|460 (4.6%)
|-
!scope="row"| Unknown
|179 (1.8%)
|-
!scope="row"| Total
|10,033 (100%)
|}

Of those accepted for admission in 2018, 48 percent were [[Asian people|Asian]], [[Hispanic]], African-American or Native American.<ref name="Facts"/> Fourteen percent of entering undergraduates in 2018 were [[international student]]s.<ref name="Facts"/> The composition of international first-year students in 2018 was: 46% from Asia; 15% from Africa and the Middle East; 16% from Europe; 14% from Canada and Mexico; 8% from the [[Caribbean]], Central America and South America; 5% from Australia and the [[Pacific Islands]].<ref name="Facts" /> The acceptance rate for international students admission in 2018 was 493 out of 8,316 (6.7%).<ref name="Facts"/> In 2018, 55% of all enrolled students were women.<ref name="Facts"/>

In the last few decades, Jewish enrollment has been declining. {{circa|1999}} about 28% of the students were Jewish.<ref>{{cite news|author=Pam, Caroline C. |url=http://observer.com/1999/05/enrollment-of-jews-at-princeton-drops-by-40-percent-in-15-years/ |title=Enrollment of Jews at Princeton Drops by 40 Percent in 15 Years|newspaper=[[The New York Observer]]|date=May 31, 1999 |access-date=August 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831071855/http://observer.com/1999/05/enrollment-of-jews-at-princeton-drops-by-40-percent-in-15-years/ |archive-date=August 31, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In early 2020, 1,750 Penn undergraduate students were Jewish,<ref name="PennHillel">{{cite web |title=About {{!}} Penn Hillel |url=https://www.pennhillel.org/about |website=Penn Hillel |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922134846/https://www.pennhillel.org/about |url-status=live }}</ref> which would be approximately 17%<ref name="hillel.org">{{cite web|title=Record|url=https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-pennsylvania|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Default|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723192909/https://hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-pennsylvania|url-status=live}}</ref> of the some 10,000 undergrads for 2019–20.
Penn has been ranked as the number one [[LGBTQ+]] friendly school in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greatvaluecolleges.net/50-great-lgbtq-friendly-colleges/ |title=50 Great LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges |work=Great Value Colleges |access-date=October 22, 2021 }}</ref> Penn's LGBTQ+ center is second oldest in the nation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lgbtc.vpul.upenn.edu/history/|title=History – LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=October 23, 2021|archive-date=October 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023010201/https://lgbtc.vpul.upenn.edu/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and oldest in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as it has been serving the LGBTQ+ community since 1979 by providing support and guidance through 25 groups (including Penn J-Bagel a Jewish LGBTQ+ group, the Lambda Alliance a general LGBTQ social organization, and oSTEM a group for LGBTQ people in STEM fields).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.campuspride.org/campusspotlightuniversityofpennsylvania/ |title=20th Anniversary Spotlight:: University of Pennsylvania |website=campuspride.org |date=August 17, 2021 |access-date=October 22, 2021 }}</ref> Penn offers courses in Sexuality and Gender Studies which allows students to discover and learn queer theory, history of sexual norms, and other gender orientation related courses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineschoolscenter.com/friendliest-colleges-lgbtq-community/|title = Friendliest Colleges for the LGBTQ Community|date = April 23, 2019}}</ref>

===Penn Face and behavioral health===
The university's social pressure surrounding academic perfection, extreme competitiveness, and nonguaranteed readmission have created what is known as "Penn Face": students put on a façade of confidence and happiness while enduring mental turmoil.<ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Scelfo
 |first        = Julie
 |date         = July 27, 2015
|title        = Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection
 |url          = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html
 |url-access   = limited
 |work         = The New York Times
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = An apothegm long used by students to describe the practice of acting happy and self-assured even when sad or stressed, Penn Face is so widely employed that it has showed up in skits performed during freshman orientation...[e]lite colleges often make it difficult for students to take time off, and readmission is not always guaranteed, something frequently cited as a deterrent to getting help.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190614120239/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html
 |archive-date = June 14, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Capriglione
 |first        = Danielle
 |date         = April 12, 2019
|title        = Mental health researchers highlight risk factors for student suicide at Penn panel
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/suicide-symposium-mental-health-wellness-penn-face
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = 'Penn Face,' the tendency of Penn students to act as though their lives are perfect despite the challenges and stresses they are facing.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190413003324/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/04/suicide-symposium-mental-health-wellness-penn-face
 |archive-date = April 13, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Dent
 |first        = Mark
 |date         = December 11, 2015
|title        = 'Penn Face' and the 'social' Ivy's suicide problem, and how students are fighting back
 |url          = https://billypenn.com/2015/12/11/penn-face-and-the-social-ivys-suicide-problem-and-how-students-are-fighting-back/
 |work         = BillyPenn
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Penn Face...[i]t means putting on the facade that you're perfect and your life is perfect, no matter how pressured you are to keep up with school and social life.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211632/https://billypenn.com/2015/12/11/penn-face-and-the-social-ivys-suicide-problem-and-how-students-are-fighting-back/
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref name="duck">{{cite news
 |last         = Hu
 |first        = Lucy
 |date         = September 26, 2017
|title        = Penn Face is a part of who we are
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/09/lucy-hu-penn-face-is-a-part-of-who-we-are
 |work         = The Daily Pennsylvanian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = [I]t becomes a breeding ground for competitiveness. And with competition comes the need to uphold reputation. Low acceptance rates come with very high stakes, and a slip of the mask of strength calls into question the legitimacy of your place at Penn... Stanford University calls it the Duck Syndrome... Interestingly, Penn Face perfectly mirrors social media trends.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/09/lucy-hu-penn-face-is-a-part-of-who-we-are
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Maheshwari
 |first        = Karisma
 |date         = March 16, 2018
|title        = Exchange Students Share Their Experiences with Penn Face
 |url          = https://www.34st.com/article/2018/03/exchange-student-ego-penn-face-international-culture
 |work         = 34th Street
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Penn Face...[i]t's the name given to Penn's culture of perfection, which pressures students to constantly 'do more' with their time and appear put together academically and socially while hiding their insecurities.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211631/https://www.34st.com/article/2018/03/exchange-student-ego-penn-face-international-culture
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> Stanford University calls this phenomenon "Duck Syndrome".<ref name="duck"/><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Zhao
 |first        = Dora
 |date         = September 18, 2018
|title        = Benefits of doing nothing
 |url          = http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/09/benefits-of-doing-nothing
 |work         = The Daily Princetonian
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = Peer institutions like Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania have problems with the duck syndrome or Penn Face, respectively — similar phenomena that encourage students to appear to be unstressed while actually grappling with a lot of work. The duck appears calm from the surface, but underwater, it is struggling to stay afloat. It makes small mistakes feel like big failures and discourages students from seeking out mental health resources when needed.
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/09/benefits-of-doing-nothing
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> In recent years, mental health has become an issue on campus with ten student suicides between the years of 2013 to 2016.<ref name="lala">{{cite news
|last=Lala
|first=Elisa
|title=Penn student's death ruled suicide; tenth in three years at university
|url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/tenth-student-suicide-3-years-penn/
|access-date=August 4, 2016
|work=PhillyVoice
|publisher=WWB Holdings, LLC.
|date=January 12, 2016
|ref=lala
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725025736/http://www.phillyvoice.com/tenth-student-suicide-3-years-penn/
|archive-date=July 25, 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The school responded by launching a task force.<ref>{{cite news
 |author           = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->
 |date             = February 27, 2015
|title            = Report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
 |url              = https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v61/n23/pdf/task-force-psychological-health.pdf
 |work             = Almanac Supplement
 |volume           = 61
 |edition          = 23
 |publisher        = University of Pennsylvania
 |publication-date = February 17, 2015
|agency           = Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
 |access-date      = June 17, 2019
|archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20180325162648/https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v61/n23/pdf/task-force-psychological-health.pdf
 |archive-date     = March 25, 2018
|url-status       = live
}}</ref><ref name="ozio">{{cite news
|last=Ozio
|first=Ron
|title=Penn Forms New Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare
|url=https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-forms-new-task-force-student-psychological-health-and-welfare
|access-date=August 4, 2016
|work=Penn News
|publisher=University of Pennsylvania
|date=February 19, 2014
|ref=ozio
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814202000/https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-forms-new-task-force-student-psychological-health-and-welfare
|archive-date=August 14, 2016
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The most widely covered case of Penn Face has been Madison Holleran.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Fagan
|first=Kate
|date=August 1, 2017
|title=What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
|publisher=Little, Brown and Company
|isbn=978-0316356541}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
 |last         = Zamore
 |first        = Zachary
 |date         = February 5, 2018
|title        = Harvard's Varsity Club distributes biography on Penn student Madison Holleran to all athletes
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/harvard-mental-health-athletes-madison-holleran-upenn-penn-philadelphia
 |work         = [[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211639/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/02/harvard-mental-health-athletes-madison-holleran-upenn-penn-philadelphia
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> In 2018, initiatives were enacted to ameliorate mental health problems, such as requiring sophomores to live on campus and the daily closing of Huntsman Hall at 2:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/09/upenn-2021-sophomore-housing-required-greek
|title=Penn will require all sophomores to live in college housing starting in 2021
|last1=Fortinsky
|first1=Sarah
|last2=Tan
|first2=Rebecca
|date=September 26, 2018
|work=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]
|language=en-us
|access-date=January 22, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122195512/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/09/upenn-2021-sophomore-housing-required-greek
|archive-date=January 22, 2019
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/wharton-huntsman-closing-early-new-hours-philadelphia-upenn-penn-wellness-mental-health
|title=Huntsman Hall will now close at 2 a.m. as part of an effort to improve wellness on campus
|last=Heinzerling
|first=Kelly
|date=August 23, 2018
|work=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]
|language=en-us
|access-date=January 22, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122144936/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/08/wharton-huntsman-closing-early-new-hours-philadelphia-upenn-penn-wellness-mental-health
|archive-date=January 22, 2019
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The university's suicide rate was the catalyst for a 2018 state bill, introduced by Governor [[Tom Wolf]], to raise Pennsylvania's standards for university suicide prevention.<ref>{{cite news
 |last1        = Cohen
 |first1       = Max
 |last2        = Hodges
 |first2       = Bebe
 |date         = October 24, 2018
|title        = In response to suicides at Penn, a new mental health bill may soon become law
 |url          = https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/10/mental-health-higher-education-harrisburg-bill-suicide-penn-upenn-philadelphia
 |work         = [[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]
 |access-date  = June 17, 2019
|quote        = In light of the recent suicides at Penn, a new Pennsylvania bill aiming to improve suicide prevention services and mental health resources at Pennsylvania universities is close to being signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.)...In a press release, Schlossberg also said the new bill was inspired by a study conducted in response to 'multiple suicides at the University of Pennsylvania.'
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190617211729/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/10/mental-health-higher-education-harrisburg-bill-suicide-penn-upenn-philadelphia
 |archive-date = June 17, 2019
|url-status   = live
}}</ref> The university's efforts to address mental health on campus came into the national spotlight again in September 2019 when the director of the university's counseling services died by suicide six months after starting the position.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/11/university-pennsylvania-director-counseling-dies-suicide |title=Head of Counseling at Penn Dies in Suicide |first=Elin |last=Johnson |date=September 11, 2019 |work=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |access-date=December 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914094019/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/11/university-pennsylvania-director-counseling-dies-suicide |archive-date=September 14, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Student organizations===
{{See also|University of Pennsylvania senior societies}}
[[File:The Philomathean Library.jpg|thumb|The Philomathean Society Presidential Library, named after former [[President of the United States|U.S. president]] and [[University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine|Penn Med]] alumnus [[William Henry Harrison]]]]

The [[Philomathean Society]], founded in 1813, is the United States' oldest continuously existing collegiate literary society and continues to host lectures and intellectual events open to the public.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania|author=Philomathean Society|author-link=Philomathean Society|year=1913|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|location=Philadelphia|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyphilomat00socigoog/page/n34 22]|url=https://archive.org/details/historyphilomat00socigoog|access-date=November 5, 2015}}</ref>

''[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]'' is an independent, student-run newspaper, which has been published daily since it was founded in 1885.<ref name="About DP">{{cite news|title=About Us|url=http://thedp.com/about-us|newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807005912/http://thedp.com/about-us|archive-date=August 7, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> The newspaper went unpublished from May 1943 to November 1945 due to [[World War II]].<ref name="About DP"/> In 1984, the university lost all editorial and financial control of ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' (also known as ''The DP'') when the newspaper became its own corporation.<ref name="About DP" /> ''The Daily Pennsylvanian'' has won the [[Pacemaker Award]] administered by the [[Associated Collegiate Press]] multiple times, most recently in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm07.html|work=ACP|publisher=National Scholastic Press Association/Associated Collegiate Press|title=2007 ACP Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|access-date=August 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927161701/http://www.studentpress.org/acp/winners/npm07.html|archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Max |title=The Daily Pennsylvanian wins 'Pulitzer' of college journalism for third year in a row |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/pacemaker-award-daily-pennsylvanian-wins-2019 |work=The Daily Pennsylvania |access-date=December 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221162501/https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/pacemaker-award-daily-pennsylvanian-wins-2019 |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''DP'' also publishes a weekly arts and culture magazine called ''[[34th Street Magazine]]''.

The Penn Debate Society (PDS), founded in 1984 as the Penn Parliamentary Debate Society, is Penn's debate team, which competes regularly on the [[American Parliamentary Debate Association]] and the international British Parliamentary circuit.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penndebatesociety.com/history |title=History — Penn Debate Society |website=Penndebatesociety.com |date= |access-date=July 4, 2022}}</ref>

The ''Penn History Review'' is a journal, published twice a year, through the Department of History, for undergraduate historical research, by and for undergraduates, and founded in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/phr/all_issues.html |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/undergraduate/penn-history-review |website=Department of History |publisher=Penn Arts & Sciences |access-date=April 30, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Penn History Review |url=https://pennclubs.com/club/penn-history-review |website=pennclubs.com |access-date=April 30, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

==== Penn Electric Racing ====
[[File:Penn Electric Racing REV8 Unveiling.jpg|thumb|Penn Electric Racing unveiled REV8 on March 31, 2023, in front of the ''[[Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)|Statue of Benjamin Franklin]]'' in front of [[College Hall (University of Pennsylvania)|College Hall]].]]

Penn Electric Racing is the university's [[Formula SAE]] (FSAE) team, competing in the international [[electric vehicle]] (EV) competition. Colloquially known as "PER", the team designs, manufactures, and races custom electric racecars against other collegiate teams. In 2015, PER built and raced their first racecar, REV1, at the [[List of Formula SAE winners|Lincoln Nebraska FSAE competition]], winning first place.<ref name="SAE-2015">{{Cite web |date=June 24, 2015 |title=Electric 2015 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2015_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref> The team repeated their success with their next two racecars: REV2 won second place in 2016,<ref name="SAE-2016">{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2016 |title=Electric 2016 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2016_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref> and REV3 won first place in 2017.<ref name="SAE-2017">{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2017 |title=Electric 2017 Overall Results |url=https://www.sae.org/binaries/content/assets/cm/content/attend/2018/student-events/fsae/results/fsae_ev_2017_result.pdf |page=1 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=SAE}}</ref>

===Performing arts organizations===
Penn is home to numerous organizations that promote the arts, from dance to spoken word, jazz to stand-up comedy, theatre, a cappella and more. The Performing Arts Council (PAC) oversees 45 student organizations in these areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/|title=Performing Arts Council at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=November 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101095230/http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/|archive-date=November 1, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The PAC has four subcommittees: A Cappella Council; Dance Arts Council; Singer, Musicians, and Comedians (SMAC); and Theatre Arts Council (TAC-e).

====Penn Glee Club====

{{See also|The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club}}

[[File:1915-1916 glee club.JPG|thumb|Penn Glee Club's 1915–1916 academic year membership photo]]

[[The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club]], founded in 1862, is tied for [[List of collegiate glee clubs|fourth oldest]] continually running [[glee club]]s in the United States<ref name="foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/timeline.html|title=A Timeline of The History of The University of Pennsylvania|access-date=July 5, 2008|publisher=The University of Pennsylvania Archives|archive-date=August 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811043944/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/genlhistory/timeline.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the oldest performing arts group at the University of Pennsylvania. 
	
Each year, the Penn Glee Club writes and produces a fully staged, Broadway-style production with an eclectic mix of Penn standards, Broadway classics, classical favorites, and pop hits, highlighting choral singing from all genders<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn Glee Club becomes fully gender inclusive after 159 years of all-male singers|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-glee-club-becomes-fully-gender-inclusive-after-159-years-male-singers|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Penn Today|date=April 9, 2021 }}</ref>

The Glee Club draws its singing members from the undergraduate and graduate students.

The Penn Glee Club has traveled to nearly all 50 states in the United States and over 40 nations and territories on five continents and has appeared on national television with such celebrities as [[Bob Hope]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]], and [[Ed McMahon]]. Since its first performance at the [[White House]] for President [[Calvin Coolidge]] in 1926, the club has sung for numerous heads of state and world leaders.

====Penn Band====
{{Main|The University of Pennsylvania Band}}
[[File:University of Pennsylvania Band spell "Penn".jpg|thumb|[[The University of Pennsylvania Band]] at the 2019 homecoming game]]

[[The University of Pennsylvania Band]] has been a part of student life since 1897.<ref name="Who are we?!">{{cite web|title=Who are we?!|url=http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennband/about.html|work=Penn Band|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Band|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005010616/http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pennband/about.html|archive-date=October 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Penn Band presently mainly performs at football and basketball games as well as university functions (e.g. [[Graduation|commencement]] and [[convocation]]). It was the first college band to perform at [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]], and has performed with notable musicians, including [[John Philip Sousa]], members of the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]], and the [[U.S. Marine Band]] ("The President's Own").

Penn Band has performed for Princess [[Grace Kelly]] of [[Monaco]] (sister and aunt to number of alumni), alumnus and District Attorney and Mayor of Philadelphia, and Governor of Pennsylvania [[Ed Rendell]], Vice President [[Al Gore]], presidents [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[Ronald Reagan]], and Polish dissident and president [[Lech Wałęsa]].

====Penn's a cappella community====
[[File:PM Obama.jpg|thumb|[[Penn Masala]] performs in the Blue Room of the White House in October 2009 on invitation from President [[Barack Obama]].]]

The A Cappella Council (ACK) is composed of 14 a cappella groups. Penn's a cappella groups entertain audiences with repertoires including pop, rock, R&B, jazz, Hindi, and Chinese songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/ack.php|title=Performing Arts Council at the University of Pennsylvania|access-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728221803/https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/pac/ack.php|archive-date=July 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
ACK is also home to Off The Beat, which has received the most contemporary a cappella recording awards of any collegiate group in the United States and the most features on the ''Best of College A Cappella'' albums.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pennoffthebeat.com|title=Off The Beat|access-date=February 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906195614/https://pennoffthebeat.com/|archive-date=September 6, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Penn Masala]], formed in 1996, is world's oldest<ref>{{cite book |title=Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory |last=Rapkin |first=Mickey |year=2009 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-59240-463-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/pitchperfectques0000rapk_q3n0}}</ref><ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/3585 Penn Masala performs at the White House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420093139/http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/node/3585 |date=April 20, 2016 }} Penn Current – October 15, 2009</ref> and premier<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100113171650/http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/10/stories/2010011057570200.htm Penn Masala to perform in city] ''[[The Hindu]]'' – January 10, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.indiawest.com/channel/278-65-penn-masala----the-world-s-premier-south-asian-a-cappella-group.html Penn Masala – The World's Premier South Asian A Cappella Group] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113070515/http://www.indiawest.com/channel/278-65-penn-masala----the-world-s-premier-south-asian-a-cappella-group.html |date=January 13, 2012}} India West</ref> [[South Asia]]n a cappella group based in an American university, which has performed for [[Barack Obama]], [[Joe Biden]], [[Henry Kissinger]], [[Ban Ki-moon]], [[Farooq Abdullah]], [[Imran Khan]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[A.R. Rahman]], [[Narendra Modi]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/penn-masala-sings-srks-chaiyya-chaiyya-at-white-house-for-pm-modis-welcome/articleshow/101198111.cms | title=Penn Masala sings SRK's 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' at White House for PM Modi's welcome | newspaper=The Times of India | date=June 22, 2023 }}</ref> and [[Sunidhi Chauhan]], had their a cappella version of [[Nazia Hassan]]'s [[Urdu]] classic "[[Aap Jaisa Koi]]", (originally from the movie ''[[Qurbani (1980 film)|Qurbani]]'') sung in the movie [[American Desi]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Matheson | first = Kathy | title = UPenn group spices up college a cappella scene with Hindi songs | agency = Associated Press | date = February 24, 2007 | url =http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/25/america/NA-FEA-A-E-MUS-US-Hindi-A-Cappella.php | access-date =February 17, 2008}}</ref>

Penn alumni [[Elizabeth Banks]] (class of 1996) and Max Handelman (Banks' husband, class of 1995) invited Masala to appear in ''[[Pitch Perfect 2]]'', as Banks reported that Penn's a capella community inspired the [[Pitch Perfect (film series)|film series]] starring or produced by Banks and Handleman.<ref>{{cite web|date=April 15, 2015|title=Pitch Perfect and Penn|url=https://thepenngazette.com/pitch-perfect-and-penn/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=The Pennsylvania Gazette|language=en-US}}</ref>

====Comedy organizations====
[[File:Mask&Wig.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Mask and Wig]] clubhouse]]

[[Mask and Wig]], a club founded in 1889, was (until fall of 2021<ref>{{cite web | url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/making-mask-and-wig-history-gender-inclusive | title=Making Mask and Wig history | date=October 12, 2022 }}</ref>) the oldest all-male musical comedy troupe in the country. In 2021 the club voted to become gender-inclusive, with auditions open to all undergraduates: male, female, and [[non-binary]].

Bloomers comedy group, founded in 1978, is the .".. nation's first collegiate all-women musical and sketch comedy troupe...."<ref name="fem next">{{cite news |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |title=Penn's pioneering all-female musical comedy troupe launched an SNL star. What's next? |first=Bethany |last=Ao |date=October 19, 2018|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/bloomers-penn-womens-comedy-troupe-20181019.html}}</ref>
Bloomers was founded at Penn by Joan Harrison.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 | title=History | access-date=June 21, 2021 | archive-date=June 24, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205438/https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In the mid teens, Bloomers revised its constitution to be open to .".. anyone who does not identify as a [[cisgender]] man...."<ref name="fem next"/> and now accepts all persons from under-represented gender identities who perform comedy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 |title=A Bloomer By Any Other Name |website=bloomerscomedy.org |access-date=June 21, 2021 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205438/https://www.bloomerscomedy.org/history-1 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bloomers-mark-40-years-edgy-comedy-penn |title=Bloomers mark 40 years of edgy comedy |work=Penn Today |last=DiSanto |first=Jill |date=October 22, 2018 |access-date=June 21, 2021}}</ref> Bloomers performs sketches and elaborate shows almost every semester. The comedy troupe is named after [[bloomers]], the once popular long, loose fitting undergarment, gathered at the ankle, worn under a short skirt (developed in the mid 19th century as a healthy comfortable alternative to the heavy, constricting dresses then worn by American women), which were in turn, named after [[Amelia Jenks Bloomer]]. Bloomers' most well-known performing alumna is [[Vanessa Bayer]], formerly of [[Saturday Night Live]] and is SNL's longest-serving female cast member.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bloomers-mark-40-years-edgy-comedy-penn | title=Bloomers mark 40 years of edgy comedy | date=October 22, 2018 }}</ref>

===Religious and spiritual organizations===

The following religious and spiritual organizations have a significant on campus presence at Penn:

(A) Mainstream Protestantism:
Dating back to 1857, The Christian Association (a.k.a. The CA), is composed primarily of students from [[Mainline Protestant]] backgrounds.<ref>Cheyney, Edward Potts. "A History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740–1940." Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1940): 433–434.</ref> Historically, the CA ran several foreign missions including one in China<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt50mcc883/ |title=Josiah C. McCracken Papers 1906–1993 |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania |date=1995 | access-date=June 30, 2024 |editor-last=Chen |editor-first=Kaiyi |archive-url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094653/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upt/upt50/mccracken_jc.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref> and for decades ran a camp for socio-economically disadvantaged children from Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/ups48_1/ |title=Online Collection Guides: Christian Association Records, 1857–2000 |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania |url-status=live |access-date=January 30, 2016 |archive-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113045613/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/ups/ups48_1.html}}</ref> At present the CA occupies part of the parsonage at Tabernacle [[United Church of Christ]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upennca.org/|title=The Christian Association at The University of Pennsylvania |access-date=January 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120120043/http://www.upennca.org/|archive-date=January 20, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

(B) [[Judaism]]:
Organized Jewish life did not begin on campus in earnest until the start of 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline/1740-1915|title=Timeline of Diversity at Penn: 1740–1915|work=University Archives and Records Center|access-date=February 27, 2021|archive-date=January 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117095259/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/diversity-timeline/1740-1915|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jewish Life on campus is centered at Penn branch of [[Hillel International]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Resources|url=https://jewishphilly.org/resources/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia|date=February 8, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="hillel.org"/> which inspires students to explore Judaism, creates patterns of Jewish living that can be sustained after graduation, provides religious communities, promotes educational initiatives, [[social justice]] projects, social and cultural opportunities, and groups focusing on Israel education and politics, and hosts a [[Kosher]] Penn approved dining hall (supervised by the Community Kashrus of Greater Philadelphia).<ref>{{Cite web|title=myJLI.com :: Jewish Learning|url=https://www.myjli.com/index.html?task=pages&page=Jewish%20Learning|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=myjli.com}}</ref> In addition to Hillel, the other major Jewish organization with significant impact on Penn's campus is The [[Chabad]] Lubavitch House at Penn (founded in 1980<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lubavitchhouse.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/674597/jewish/About-Us.htm|title=About Us - LubavitchHouse.com|accessdate=April 5, 2024}}</ref>), which, among other activities, brings together Jewish college students with noted Jewish academics for in-depth discussions and debate.<ref>{{cite news|last=Che |first=Jenny |title=Floch '11 presents winning paper |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2011/04/07/floch-11-presents-winning-paper/ |work=[[The Dartmouth]] |publisher=Dartmouth College |date=April 7, 2011|access-date=July 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710094856/http://thedartmouth.com/2011/04/07/floch-11-presents-winning-paper/ |archive-date=July 10, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

(C) [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]:
The Penn Newman Catholic Center (the [[Newman Center]]), founded in 1893 (as the first Newman Center in the country) with the mission of supporting students, faculty, and staff in their religious endeavors. The organization brings prominent Christian figures to campus, including Rev. Thomas "Tom" J. Hagan, [[Oblates of St. Francis de Sales|OSFS]], who worked in the Newman Center and founded Haiti-based non-profit Hands Together;<ref>{{cite news |last=DiStefano |first=Joseph |title=Our Father – The Pennsylvania Gazette |url=https://thepenngazette.com/our-father/ |access-date=September 6, 2020 |work=[[The Pennsylvania Gazette]] |date=June 21, 2016}}</ref> and [[James Martin (priest, born 1960)|James Martin]] [[Society of Jesus|SJ]] ([[Wharton School]] undergraduate class of 1982<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-25 |title=Father Martin's New Mission |url=https://thepenngazette.com/father-martins-new-mission/ |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=The Pennsylvania Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>). Father Martin, an [[editor-at-large]] of the Jesuit magazine [[America (magazine)|''America'']],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/voices/james-martin-sj |title=James Martin, S.J., Editor At Large |work=America Magazine|access-date=August 7, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and frequent commentator on the life and teachings of Jesus and [[Ignatian spirituality]], is especially well known for his outreach to the [[LGBT]] community, which has drawn a strong backlash from parts of the Catholic Church, but has provided comfort to Penn students and other members of Roman Catholic community who wish to stay connected with their faith and identify as LGBQT.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Martin |first1=James |title=I called for Christians to love gay people. Now the Catholic alt-right is taking revenge. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/21/i-called-for-christians-to-love-gay-people-now-the-catholic-alt-right-is-taking-revenge/ |access-date=November 18, 2019 |date=September 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/36848/archbishop-chaput-fr-martin-deserves-respectful-criticism-not-trash-talking |title=Archbishop Chaput: Fr. Martin deserves respectful criticism, not trash-talking |date=September 21, 2017 |website=Catholic News Agency |language=en|access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://international.la-croix.com/news/catholic-cyber-militias-and-the-new-censorship/5923 |title=Catholic Cyber-Militias and the New Censorship |last=Faggioli |first=Massimo |date=December 29, 2017 |website=international.la-croix.com |access-date=August 8, 2019 |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911142734/https://international.la-croix.com/news/catholic-cyber-militias-and-the-new-censorship/5923 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

(D)&nbsp;[[Hinduism]] and [[Jainism]]:
Penn funds (via the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly or similar undergraduate organization) a variety of official clubs focused on India including a number focused on students who are Hindu or Jain such as: (1)&nbsp;'Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH)', a center for students to celebrate South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, culture and religion,<ref>{{cite web|date=January 3, 2021|title=UPenn Diversity Statistics: An In-Depth Look|url=https://blog.collegevine.com/upenn-diversity-statistics/|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=blog.collegevine.com}}</ref> (2)&nbsp;'Rangoli—The South Asian Association at Penn' that educates and informs Penn students (mainly graduate and professional students) with ancestry or interest in South Asia whose goals include a desire to "rekindle the spirit of community" through events,<ref>{{cite web|title=Rangoli – South Asian Association at Penn|url=https://www.pennrangoli.org|access-date=January 4, 2023|website=pennrangoli.org}}</ref> and (3)&nbsp;'Penn Hindu & Jain Association', a student-run official club at Penn that has 80 to 110 student members and an extensive alumni network, dedicated to raise awareness of the Hindu and Jain faiths and foster further development of these communities in the greater Philadelphia area by providing a variety of services and hosting a number of events such as [[Holi Festival]] (which has been held annually at Penn since 1993<ref>{{cite news|last2=Levenson|first2=Lisa|date=April 4, 1994|author1=((''DP'' Staff)) |title=Students celebrate spring at Holi festival |access-date=July 26, 2021 |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |language=en-us |url= https://www.thedp.com/article/1994/04/students_celebrate_spring_at_holi_festival}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Penn Holi 2017: Celebrate Your Colors|url=http://www.thedp.com/gallery/penn-holi-colors|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=thedp.com|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Year We Learned to Grieve|url=https://www.34st.com/article/2021/03/pandemic-grief-loss-trauma-bereavement-covid19-anniversary|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=34st.com}}</ref>) and "...{{nbsp}}aims to be a home to anyone seeking to explore their spiritual, religious, or social interests."<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=https://pennhja.com/about.html|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=pennhja.com}}</ref>

(E) [[Islam]]:
In 1963, the [[Muslim Students' Association]] (MSA National) and Penn chapter of MSA National were founded to facilitate Muslim life among students on college campuses.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pennmsa.com/about |title=About |publisher=Penn MSA |access-date=March 27, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Muslim Students' Association|url=https://pennclubs.com/club/muslim-students-association|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=pennclubs.com|language=en}}</ref> Penn MSA was established to help Penn Muslims build faith and community by fostering a space under the guidance of Islamic principles<ref>{{cite web|title=Spirituality & Religion {{!}} University of Pennsylvania|url=https://www.upenn.edu/life-at-penn/religion|access-date=July 24, 2021|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref name="majm">{{cite web |url=https://pennds.org/nelc133/exhibits/show/masjidaljamia/msaandmasjidaljamia |title=Masjid Al-Jamia: The History of Penn's Muslim Students Association and the Mosque in West Philadelphia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924210149/http://pennds.org/nelc133/exhibits/show/masjidaljamia/msaandmasjidaljamia |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |website=Here and Over There: Penn, Philadelphia and the Middle East |access-date=August 30, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> and towards that goal Penn MSA supports mission of its related umbrella organization, [[Islamic Society of North America]], to "foster the development of the Muslim community, interfaith relations, civic engagement, and better understandings of Islam."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isna.net/about/|title=Mission|last=Islamic Society of North America|date=2019|website=isna.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001203532/http://www.isna.net/about/|archive-date=October 1, 2019|access-date=March 27, 2021}}</ref> The Muslim Life Program at Penn also provides such support and helped cause Penn (in January 2017) to hire its first full-time Muslim chaplain, the co-president of the Association of Campus Muslim Chaplains, Sister Patricia Anton (whose background includes working with Muslim, interfaith, academic and peace-building institutions such as [[Islamic Society of North America]] and [[Islamic Relief]]). Chaplain Anton's mandate includes supporting and guiding the Penn Muslim community to foster further development of such community by creating a welcoming environment that provides Penn Muslim community opportunities to intellectually and spiritually engage with Islam.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pennmuslimlife.org/ |title=Muslim Life at Penn |publisher=Muslim Life Program University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 27, 2021 }}</ref> Penn also has a residential house, the Muslim Life Residential Program, which provides a live/learn environment focused on the appreciation of Islamic culture, food, history, and practice, and shows its Penn student residents how Islam is deeply integrated in the culture of Philadelphia so they may appreciate how Islam influences daily life.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Muslim Life Residential Program {{!}} College Houses & Academic Services|url=https://harnwell.house.upenn.edu/muslimliferp|access-date=July 24, 2021|website=harnwell.house.upenn.edu}}</ref>

(F) [[Buddhism]]:
Penn has a Buddhist chaplain<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/a-short-introduction-to-won-buddhism/ | title=A Short Introduction to Won Buddhism }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://wondharmacenter.org/dr-rev-grace-song/ | title=Dr. Rev. Grace – Won Dharma Center | date=December 20, 2021 }}</ref> (as well as chaplains of other faiths) and funds the Penn [[Meditation]] and Buddhism Club, which (1)&nbsp;is dedicated to helping Penn students practice mindfulness and meditation and learning about Buddhism, (2)&nbsp;conducts weekly meetings that begin with a guided meditation and are followed by discussions of topic(s) relating to mindfulness and Buddhism, and (3)&nbsp;organizes other activities such as [[ramen]] nights and weekend meditation retreats to the local [[Won Buddhism]] center.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pennclubs.com/club/penn-buddhism-club | title=Penn Meditation and Buddhism Club }}</ref>

==Athletics==
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Penn's [[college athletics|sports]] teams are nicknamed the [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakers]], but the teams are often also referred to as [[The Red and Blue]] as reflected in the popular song sung after every athletic contest where the Penn Band or other musical groups are present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1800s/goeckel_wm_john.html |title=William John Goeckel (1871–1922) |publisher=The University of Pennsylvania Archives |access-date=July 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703235441/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/people/1800s/goeckel_wm_john.html |archive-date=July 3, 2008 }} The song's copyright was originally held by W. H. Boner & Company.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-john-goeckel |title=William John Goeckel |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=November 15, 2021 }}</ref> The athletes participate in the [[Ivy League]] and [[Division I (NCAA)|Division&nbsp;I]] ([[NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision|Division&nbsp;I FCS]] for football) in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]. In recent decades, they often have been [[sports league|league]] champions in football (14 times from 1982 to 2010) and basketball (22 times from 1970 to 2006). The first athletic team at Penn was the [[cricket]] team, which formed in 1842 and played regularly through 1846, the year it lost its "grounds", and then only played intermittently until 1864, the year it played its first intercollegiate game (against [[Haverford College]]).<ref name="Penn Cricket"/>

[[File:1843 Penn Cricket Field in New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|1843 photo of Penn's Cricket team at its first "grounds" across the [[Delaware River]] in New Jersey]]

The rowing (or crew) team composed of Penn students but not officially representing Penn was formed in 1854 but did not compete against other colleges as official part of Penn until 1879. The rugby football team began to play against other colleges, most notably against [[College of New Jersey (18th Century)|College of New Jersey]] (now Princeton University) in 1874 using a combination of [[association football]] (i.e. soccer) and [[Rugby football|rugby]] rules (the twenty players on each side were able to use their hands but were not able to pass or bat the ball forward).<ref name="SASH-Farnsworth">{{cite web|url=https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/the-origins-of-soccer-in-philadelphia-part-5-local-college-based-football-after-the-1863-laws-of-the-game/ |title=The origins of soccer in Philadelphia, part 5: Local college-based football after the 1863 Laws of the Game – Society for American Soccer History |last=Farnsworth |first=Ed |date=April 16, 2020 |publisher=Society for American Soccer History}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kieran|first=John|title=Sports of the Times|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 1932|page=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/19th-century-athletics/timeline|title = Penn Athletics in the 19th Century: Timeline}}</ref>

===Baseball===
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[[File:John E Sheridan Pennsylvania Georgetown Baseball c1901.jpg|thumb|A baseball program for Penn's baseball game against [[Georgetown Hoyas baseball|Georgetown]], {{Circa|1901}}]]
The University of Pennsylvania's first baseball team was fielded in 1875. Penn has won four championships in the [[Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League]], a baseball-only conference that existed from 1930 to 1992, which consisted of the eight [[Ivy League]] schools and [[Army Black Knights baseball|Army]] and [[Navy Midshipmen baseball|Navy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0090|author=Martha Mitchell|title=Baseball|website=Encyclopedia Brunoniana|access-date=June 1, 2015}}</ref>

Since 1992, Penn baseball has claimed an [[Ivy League Baseball Championship Series|Ivy League]] title, advancing to the [[NCAA Division I Baseball Championship]] five times.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quick Facts |url=https://pennathletics.com/documents/2017/12/6/18QuickFacts.pdf |website=University of Pennsylvania Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

===Basketball===
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[[File:Official A.A.U. basketball guide (1894) (14796131623).jpg|thumb|1907-1908 Penn Quakers basketball team in photo that appeared in Spalding's Official [[Amateur Athletic Union of the United States|A.A.U.]] basketball guide (September 1907).<ref>{{cite book |title=Spalding's Official A.A.U. Basketball Guide |date=September 1907 |page=44 |publisher=Amateur Athletic Union of the United States |location=Indianapolis, Indiana |url=https://archive.org/details/officialaaubaske02amateur/page/44/mode/1up}}</ref>]]

Penn [[basketball]] is steeped in tradition. Penn was retroactively recognized as the pre-[[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA tournament]] national champion for the 1919–20 and 1920–21 seasons by the [[Helms Athletic Foundation]] and for the 1919–20 season by the [[Premo-Porretta Power Poll]].<ref>{{cite book|title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game|editor-last=ESPN|publisher=ESPN Books|location=New York, NY|year=2009|page=535|isbn=978-0-345-51392-2}}</ref> Penn made its only (and the Ivy League's second) [[Final Four]] appearance in 1979, where the Quakers lost to [[Magic Johnson]]-led [[Michigan State Spartans|Michigan State]] in Salt Lake City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/26417201/penn-1979-final-four-run-marked-end-era|title=The Ivy's last stand: Penn's 1979 Final Four run marked end of an era|last=Matz|first=Eddie|date=April 2, 2019|website=[[ESPN.com]]|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/when-penn-went-final-four|title=When Penn went to the Final Four|date=March 30, 2018|website=Penn Today|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref>(Dartmouth twice finished second in the tournament in the 1940s, but that was before the beginning of formal League play.) Penn's team is also a member of the [[Philadelphia Big 5]], along with [[La Salle University|La Salle]], [[Saint Joseph's University|Saint Joseph's]], [[Temple University|Temple]], [[Villanova University|Villanova]], and [[Drexel University|Drexel]]. In 2007, the men's team won its third consecutive Ivy League title and then lost in the first round of the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA Tournament]] to [[Texas A&M Aggies|Texas A&M]]. Penn last made the NCAA tournament in 2018 where it lost to top seeded [[University of Kansas|Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-mens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-kansas-recap-graham-free-throws-upset-bid-falls-short&ved=2ahUKEwjNrumgq57wAhVFAp0JHeZlBkIQFjAHegQICxAC&usg=AOvVaw0Pcy8aiV75XMvPifv3UTOr |title=Penn men's basketball shines early, fades late in NCAA Tournament loss to No. 1 Kansas |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Pollack |first=Jonathan |date=March 15, 2018 |access-date=April 27, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427114308/https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/penn-mens-basketball-ncaa-tournament-kansas-recap-graham-free-throws-upset-bid-falls-short%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjNrumgq57wAhVFAp0JHeZlBkIQFjAHegQICxAC%26usg%3DAOvVaw0Pcy8aiV75XMvPifv3UTOr }}</ref>

===Cricket===
[[File:1887 Penn Cricket Team 2.jpg|thumb|Penn's 1887 Cricket Team, which won the [[Intercollegiate sports team champions#Cricket|Intercollegiate Cricket Association]], the ''de facto'' national championship, displaying the trophy granted to winner (held in front row by person wearing white hat)]]

The first University of Pennsylvania cricket team, reported to be the first cricket team in the United States composed exclusively of Americans,<ref name="wister">{{cite news |title=William Rotch Wister |website=University Archives and Records Center |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-rotch-wister/ |access-date=August 20, 2022 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123203231/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/william-rotch-wister/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was organized in 1842.<ref name="wister"/>

On May 7, 1864, Penn played its first intercollegiate game against [[Haverford College]] (the 3rd oldest intercollegiate athletic contest after Harvard Yale 1852 crew race and Amherst Williams 1859 Baseball game<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Guy |title=The Beginning of Organized Collegiate Sport |journal=American Quarterly |date=Summer 1970 |volume=22 |issue=2, Part 1 |pages=222–229 |doi=10.2307/2711645 |jstor=2711645 |url=https://history.msu.edu/hst329/files/2015/05/LewisGuy-TheBeginning.pdf |archive-date=May 23, 2025 |access-date=April 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523011818/https://history.msu.edu/hst329/files/2015/05/LewisGuy-TheBeginning.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Penn Cricket"/>).<ref name="cricket"/><ref name="marchcricket">{{cite news |last1=March |first1=Lochlahn |title=Penn's oldest sport goes back 168 years, and it's not one you might think |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/10/penn-cricket-team-historical-feature |access-date=March 30, 2024 |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |date=October 28, 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref> After Penn moved west of the [[Schuylkill River]] in 1872, Penn played cricket at one of the local clubs, [[Belmont Cricket Club]], [[Merion Cricket Club]], [[Germantown Cricket Club]], or at [[Haverford College]].<ref name="cricket"/> Beginning in 1875 and through 1880, Penn fielded a varsity eleven, which played a few matches each year against opponents that included Haverford College and [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia College]].<ref name="Penn Cricket"/>

In 1881, Penn, [[Harvard College]], Haverford College, Princeton College (then known as College of New Jersey), and Columbia College formed the [[Intercollegiate sports team champions#Cricket|Intercollegiate Cricket Association]],<ref name="marchcricket"/> which [[Cornell University]] later joined.<ref name="Penn Cricket"/> Penn won The [[Intercollegiate sports team champions#Cricket|Intercollegiate Cricket Association]] championship, the ''de facto'' national championship, 23 times (18 solo, three shared with Haverford and Harvard, one shared with Haverford and Cornell, and one shared with just Haverford) during the 44 years that The Intercollegiate Cricket Association existed from 1881 through 1924.{{refn|group=note|Haverford won [[Intercollegiate sports team champions#Cricket|such championships]] nineteen times: three shared with Penn and Harvard, one shared with Penn and Cornell, and one shared with Penn. In third place, Harvard won it six times, none after 1899, three of these shared with Haverford and Penn.}}

In the 1890s, Penn's cricket team frequently toured Canada and the British Isles.<ref name="Penn Cricket">{{cite web |url-status =live |title=Cricket: Penn's First Organized Sport |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/cricket/ |website= University Archives and Records Center |date=February 2006 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |author1=Seth S. Tannenbaum |author2= Clifton R. Hood |language=en |archive-date=July 4, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034854/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/cricket/histy.html}}</ref> Perhaps the university's most famous cricket player was [[George Patterson (cricketer)|George Patterson]] (class of 1888), who still holds the North American batting record and who went on to play for the professional [[Philadelphia Cricket Team]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Karpyn|first=Michael|date=2016|title=Cricket|url=https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/cricket/|access-date=December 18, 2021|website=The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia}}</ref>

Following the [[World War I]], cricket began to experience a serious decline,<ref name="struckout">{{cite web |url=https://www.historynet.com/how-cricket-struck-out.htm |title=How Cricket Struck Out |website=historynet.com |date=September 12, 2018 |access-date=April 17, 2021 }}</ref> such that in 1924 Penn fielded its last team in the twentieth century. Starting in 2009, however, Penn once again fielded a cricket team, albeit club, that ended up being the first winner of a tournament for teams from the Ivies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://americancollegecricket.com/category/universities/upenn/ |title=Universities: UPenn |website=americancollegecricket |access-date=December 24, 2021 }} and {{cite web |url=http://americancollegecricket.com/2011/03/09/college-sports-pioneer-upenn-cricket-names-its-team-for-nationals/ |title=College Sports Pioneer UPenn Cricket Names Its Team for Nationals! |website=americancollegecricket.com |access-date=March 28, 2021 }}</ref>

===Curling===
University of Pennsylvania [[Curling]] Club qualified for the 2023 National Championship at 6th place, the same ranking they qualified for the 2022 National Championship (where they finished in 2nd place), but in 2023 the team won the national championship by defeating arch rival [[Princeton University]] in the championship match (6 to 3).<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Jerez |first1=Roger |last2=Legler |first2=Sophie |date=March 14, 2023 |title=Penn Curling: 2023 National Champions |url=https://recreation.upenn.edu/news/2023/3/14/Curling.aspx |access-date=9 September 2023 |website=recreation.upenn.edu |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420013341/https://recreation.upenn.edu/news/2023/3/14/Curling.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/04/penn-curling-nationals-2023 | title=Penn Curling defeats reigning champs, brings home 2023 National Championship }}</ref> Penn Curling also won the National Championship in 2016 and is the only East Coast team to have won the Curling National Championship.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://bhamnow.com/2023/03/20/birmingham-native-member-of-penns-2023-college-national-curling-championship-team/ | title=Birmingham native member of Penn's 2023 College National Curling Championship team {{pipe}} Bham Now | date=March 20, 2023 }}</ref>

===Football===
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[[File:ChuckBednarik1952Bowman.jpg|thumb|[[Chuck Bednarik]], also known as Concrete Charlie, was a three-time All-American at Penn who was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]], the first player selected in the [[1949 NFL draft]] by the [[Philadelphia Eagles]], where he went on to win the 1960 NFL Championship and was inducted into [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]].]]

Penn first fielded a football team against [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]] at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia on November 11, 1876.<ref name="Fight song"/>

During the 1890s, Penn's coach and alumnus [[George Washington Woodruff]] introduced the quarterback kick, a forerunner of the [[forward pass]], as well as the [[Placekicker|place-kick]] from scrimmage and the delayed pass.

The achievements of two of Penn's other outstanding players from that era, John Heisman, a Law School alumnus, and [[John Outland]], a [[Penn Med]] alumnus, are remembered each year with the presentation of the Heisman Trophy to the most outstanding college football player of the year, and the [[Outland Trophy]] to the most outstanding college football [[Lineman (gridiron football)|interior lineman]] of the year.

The [[Bednarik Award]], named for [[Chuck Bednarik]], a three-time [[All-America]]n [[Center (American football)|center]] and [[linebacker]] who starred on the 1947, is awarded annually to college football's best defensive player. Bednarik went on to play for 12 years with the [[Philadelphia Eagles]], and was elected to the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in 1969.

Penn's game against [[University of California, Berkeley]] on September 29, 1951, in front of a crowd of 60,000 at [[Franklin Field]], was first college football game to be broadcast in color.<ref name="eyesofageneration.com">{{cite web |access-date=August 4, 2021 |title=September 29, 1951 ... Two College Football Television Firsts |url=https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an/ |website=Eyes Of A Generation – Television's Living History |date=29 September 2016 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804063937/https://eyesofageneration.com/september-29-1951-two-college-football-television-firstsdid-you-know-cbs-an/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2021/03/penn-football-first-televised-color-game-ncaa-history |title=Highlighting Penn football's small role in color television broadcasting |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Frank |first=Matthew |date=March 28, 2021 |access-date=August 4, 2021 }}</ref>

===Ice hockey===
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[[File:University of Pennsylvania Hockey Team 1897.jpg|thumb|right|University of Pennsylvania Hockey team in front of photo of College Hall in 1896–97, its first season of existence, featuring [[George Orton]], future winner of gold medal in the [[1900 Summer Olympics]] in 2500 meter steeplechase (top row, second from the end of the right side) and who was the first disabled person to compete in the Olympics]]

Penn's first ice hockey team competed during the 1896–97 academic year, and joined the nascent [[Intercollegiate Hockey Association]] (IHA) in 1898–99. On the first team in 1896–97 were several players of [[Canada|Canadian]] background, among them middle-distance runner and Olympian [[George Orton]] (the ''first disabled person to compete in the Olympics''). Penn fielded teams intermittently until 1965 when it formed a varsity squad that was terminated in 1977. Penn now fields a club team that plays in the [[American Collegiate Hockey Association]] Division II,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://achahockey.org/view/achahockey/divisions/men-s-d2-1/stats-431?type=standings&level=conference&id=1151&league_id=1800&conference_id=1151|title=Stats – ACHA|website=achahockey.org|access-date=April 20, 2023|archive-date=July 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701172419/http://achahockey.org/view/achahockey/divisions/men-s-d2-1/stats-431?type=standings&level=conference&id=1151&league_id=1800&conference_id=1151|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a member of the [[Colonial States College Hockey Conference]], and continues to play at the [[Class of 1923 Arena]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/icerink/ice-hockey/college-hockey.html|title=College Hockey|website=cms.business-services.upenn.edu}}</ref>

=== Olympic athletes ===
[[File:Track (men's), 1907 ICAA point winners UPenn.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Pennsylvania men's track team was the 1907 [[IC4A]] point winner. Left to right: Guy Haskins, R.C. Folwell, T.R. Moffitt, [[John Taylor (relay runner)|John Baxter Taylor, Jr.]], the first black athlete in the U.S. to win a gold medal in the Olympics,<ref name="johntaylor">{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/79112 |title=John Taylor |work=Olympedia |access-date=March 5, 2021}}</ref> [[Nathaniel Cartmell]], and J.D. Whitham (seated).]]

At least 43 Penn alumni have earned 81 Olympic medals (26 gold).<ref name="pennolympics"/>{{refn|group=note|See [[list of University of Pennsylvania people]] athletics section for list of Penn Olympic medal winners, replete with hyperlinks.}} Penn won more of its "medals"<ref name="pennolympics"/> (which were actually cups, trophies, or plaques, as medals were not introduced until a later Olympics) at [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics|1900 Summer Olympics]] held in Paris than at any other Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-put-show-1900-olympics |title=Penn put on a show at the 1900 Olympics |work=Penn Today |last=Johnson |first=Greg |date=August 4, 2021 |access-date=August 5, 2021 }}</ref>
In the [[2024 Summer Olympics]] in Paris, 13 Penn present students or alumni participated in 5 sports (athletics [4], breaking [1], fencing [3], rowing [4], and swimming [1] for 7 countries ([[Australia]] [1], [[Bermuda]] [1], [[Canada]] [2], [[Egypt]] [1], [[Nigeria]] [1], [[Slovenia]] [1], and USA [6])<ref>{{cite web |title=114 Ivies Bound for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris |url=https://ivyleague.com/news/2024/7/15/olympics-113-ivies-bound-for-2024-olympic-and-paralympic-games-in-paris.aspx |website=[[Ivy League]] |access-date=3 August 2024 |location=[[Princeton, New Jersey]] |date=17 July 2024}}</ref>

===Rowing===
[[File:1901 University of PA Crew.jpg|thumb|Penn's eight-oared crew in 1901, the first foreign crew to reach the final of the [[Grand Challenge Cup]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/crew/killarney-1901 |title=1901 Killarney Regatta |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 30, 2021 }}</ref> at [[Henley Royal Regatta]]]]

[[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]] at Penn dates back to at least 1854 with the founding of the [[University Barge Club]]. The university currently hosts both heavyweight and lightweight men's teams and an open weight women's team, all of which compete as part of the [[Eastern Sprints]] League. [[Ellis Ward]] was Penn's first intercollegiate crew coach from 1879 through 1912.<ref>With a one-year gap in 1887 and a four-year gap from 1892 to 1895.</ref> During the course of Ward's coaching career at Penn his .".. Red and Blue crews won 65 races, in about 150 starts."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41543330/ellis-ward-former-penn-coach-dies/ |title=Ellis Ward, Former Penn Coach, Dies |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=August 26, 1922 |page=9 |access-date=March 30, 2021 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Ward coached Penn's 8-oared boat to the finals of the [[Grand Challenge Cup]] (the oldest and most prized trophy) at the [[Henley Royal Regatta]] (but in that final race was defeated by the champion [[Leander Club]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/crew/henley-1901 |title=1901 Henley Regatta |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=December 24, 2021 }} and {{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/ellis-ward |title=Ellis Ward |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 30, 2021 }}</ref>

Penn Rowing has produced a long list of famous coaches and Olympians. Members of Penn crew team, rowers Sidney Jellinek, Eddie Mitchell, and coxswain, John G. Kennedy, won the bronze medal for the United States at [[1924 Summer Olympics|1924 Olympics]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news|last=March|first=Lochlahn|title=Penn rowing at the Olympics: Nearly a century of history and a recent flourish of success|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/11/penn-mens-womens-rowing-olympics-century-history-recent-flourish-success|access-date=July 26, 2021|work=The Daily Pennsylvanian}}</ref>

[[Joe Burk]] (class of 1935) was captain of Penn crew team, winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls twice, named recipient of the [[James E. Sullivan Award]] for nation's best amateur athlete in 1939, and Penn coach from 1950 to 1969. The 1955 Men's Heavyweight 8, coached by [[Joe Burk]], became one of only four American university crews in history to win the [[Grand Challenge Cup]] at the [[Henley Royal Regatta]]. The outbreak of [[World War Two]] canceled the 1940 Olympics for which Burk was favored to win the gold medal.

Other Penn Olympic athletes and or Penn coaches of such athletes include:
(a) [[John Pescatore|John Anthony Pescatore]] (who competed in the [[1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul Olympic Games]] for the United States as stroke of the men's coxed eight which earned a bronze medal<ref>{{cite web |author=Ralph Hickok |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olrowing.shtml |title=History – Olympic Rowing Medalists |website=HickokSports.com |date=February 18, 2009 |access-date=December 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215002539/http://hickoksports.com/history/olrowing.shtml |archive-date=December 15, 2011}}</ref> and later competed at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona Olympic Games]] in the men's coxless pair),
(b) [[Susan Francia]] (winner of gold medals as part of the women's 8 oared boat at [[2008 Olympics]] and [[2012 Olympics]]),
(c) Regina Salmons (member of 2021 USA team),<ref>{{cite web|title=Regina Salmons – 2019 – Senior National Team|url=https://usrowing.org/sports/senior/roster/regina-salmons/207|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=USRowing|language=en}}</ref> 
(d) Rusty Callow, 
(e) [[Harry Parker (rower)|Harry Parker]],
(f) [[Ted Nash (rower)|Ted Nash]],<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and
(g) [[John B. Kelly Jr.]], son of [[John B. Kelly Sr.]] (winner of three medals at [[1920 Summer Olympics]]) and brother of [[Princess Grace of Monaco]], was the second Penn Crew alumnus to win the [[James E. Sullivan Award]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/79/24/article214082479.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709113350/http://en.beijing2008.cn/79/24/article214082479.shtml |archive-date=July 9, 2009 |title=USOC seeks nominations for Jack Kelly Fair Play Award |work=Xinhua.net |date=May 25, 2007 |via=beijing2008.cn |access-date=April 19, 2021}}</ref> for being nation's best amateur athlete (in 1947), who was winner of a bronze medal at the [[1956 Summer Olympics]]).

Penn men's crew team won the [[National Collegiate Rowing Championship]] in 1991. A member of that team, [[Janusz Hooker]] ([[Wharton School]] class of 1992)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://about.ljhooker.com.au/about/people---executive-and-profile/board-of-directors |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529062454/http://about.ljhooker.com.au/about/people---executive-and-profile/board-of-directors |archive-date=May 29, 2012 |title=Board of Directors |website=ljhooker.com.au |access-date=August 17, 2021}}</ref> won the bronze medal in Men's Quadruple Sculls for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/athlete/c07f6c30-e23d-4acb-9600-5ca28d213662 |title=Robert Williams |website=worldrowing.com |access-date=August 17, 2021 }}</ref> The Penn teams presently row out of [[College Boat Club]], No. 11 [[Boathouse Row]].

===Rugby===
[[File:HeismanPose.jpg|thumb|[[John Heisman]], a [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]] class of 1892 alumnus and [[rugby football]] player, posing at Penn in 1891 holding an elongated ellipsoidal [[rugby ball]] and gestures resembling the famed "Heisman Pose" associated with the [[Heisman Trophy]], named in his honor<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wvnews.com/morgantownnews/sports/the-heisman-remains-the-most-iconic-pose-in-sports/article_a529b513-567c-57aa-ac3f-e047dd4146e0.html |title=The Heisman remains the most iconic pose in sports |last=Hertzel |first=Bob |work=The Morgantown News |date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=April 14, 2021 }}</ref>]]

The Penn men's [[rugby football]] team is one of the oldest collegiate rugby teams in the United States. Penn first fielded a team in mid-1870s playing by rules much closer to the [[rugby union]] and [[association football]] code rules relative to [[American football]] rules (as such American football rules had not yet been invented<ref name="SASH-Farnsworth"/>). Among its earliest games was a game against the College of New Jersey, which became [[Princeton University|Princeton]] in 1895, played in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 11, 1876, which was less than two weeks before Princeton met on November 23, 1876, with [[Harvard rugby|Harvard]] and [[Columbia University|Columbia]] to confirm that all their games would be played using the rugby union rules.<ref name="Fight song">[[Rottenberg, Dan]] (1985) "Fight On, Pennsylvania" Trustees of University of Pennsylvania pp. 25, 28, 33, 34.</ref><ref name="SASH-Farnsworth" /> Princeton and Penn played their November 1876 game per a combination of rugby (there were 20 players per side and players were able to touch the ball with their hands) and Association football codes. The rugby code influence was due, in part, to the fact that some of their students had been educated in [[English public schools]].<ref name=CompleterugbyUSA>Bath (1977) p77</ref> Among the prominent alumni to play in a 19th-century version of rugby in which rules then did not allow forward passes or center snaps was [[John Heisman]], namesake of the [[Heisman Trophy]] and an 1892 graduate of the [[University of Pennsylvania Law School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heisman.com/about-the-heisman/john-w-heisman/|title=John W. Heisman|accessdate=April 5, 2024}}</ref>

Heisman was instrumental in the first decade of the 20th century in changing the rules to more closely relate to the present rules of American football.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biletnikoffaward.com/fredbiletnikoff|title=History of the Forward Pass|website=biletnikoffaward.com|access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> One of Heisman's teammates (who was unanimously voted Captain in the fall after Heisman graduated) was [[Harry Arista Mackey]], [[Penn Law]] class of 1893<ref>{{cite news |title=Mackey Their New Captain. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/12/06/104102219.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 6, 1892 |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref> (who subsequently served as [[List of mayors of Philadelphia|Mayor of Philadelphia]] from 1928 to 1932).<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883116,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826072846/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883116,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 26, 2010|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]]|title=Milestones, Oct. 31, 1938|date=October 31, 1938}}</ref>
In 1906, Rugby per [[Rugby Union]] code was reintroduced to Penn<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Athletic Notes |magazine=Old Penn Weekly |volume=V |number=4 |date=October 19, 1906 |page=19 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=43&q1=rugby |via=Hathi Trust}} and {{cite magazine |title=Athletic Notes |magazine=Old Penn Weekly |volume=V |number=5 |date=October 27, 1906 |page=10 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=54&q1=rugby |via=Hathi Trust}}</ref> (as Penn last played per Rugby Union Code in 1882 as Penn played rugby per a number of different rugby football rulebooks and codes from 1883 through 1890s<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxuEYG6WmOsC&pg=PA53|title=Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season|author=Melvin I. Smith|year=2008|publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=9781434362476}}</ref>) by [[Frank Nicholson (rugby union)|Frank Villeneuve Nicholson]] ([[University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine|Penn Dental School]] (class of 1910)),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/&#91;slug|title={{pipe}} Rugby Union {{pipe}} Player {{pipe}} Classic Wallabies|website=classicwallabies.com.au|access-date=May 11, 2022|archive-date=January 22, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122101012/https://classicwallabies.com.au/players/%5Bslug|url-status=dead}}</ref> who in 1904 had captained the Australian national rugby team in its match against England.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=penn.ark:/81431/p3sb3x504&view=1up&seq=43&q1=Rugby|title=Old Penn; weekly magazine of the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 5 (1906–1907).|website=HathiTrust|year=1902}}</ref>

Penn played per rugby union code rules at least through 1912, contemporaneously with Penn playing American gridiron football. Evidence of such may be found in an October 22, 1910, ''[[Daily Pennsylvanian]]'' article (quoted below) and a yearbook photo<ref name="Penn Men">{{cite web|date=August 17, 2017|title=Penn Men|url=https://www.ivyrugby.com/penn-men|access-date=July 8, 2020|website=Ivy Rugby Conference|language=en}}</ref> that rugby per rugby union code was played.{{cquote|Such is the devotion to English rugby football on the part of University of Pennsylvania's students from New Zealand, Australia, and England that they meet on [[Franklin Field]] at 7 o'clock every morning and practice the game. The varsity track and football squads monopolize the field to such an extent that the early hours of the morning are the only ones during which the rugby enthusiasts can play. Any time except Friday, Saturday and Sunday, a squad of 25 men may be seen running through the hardest kind of practice after which they may divide into two teams and play a hard game. Once a week, captain CC Walton, ('11), dental, who hails from New Zealand, gives the enthusiastic players a blackboard talk in which he explains the intricacies of the game in detail.<ref>October 22, 1910, ''The Daily Pennsylvanian''</ref>}}

The player-coach of United States Olympic gold-winning rugby team at the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] was [[Alan Valentine]], who played rugby while at Penn (which he attended during 1921/1922 academic year) as he was getting a master's degree at Wharton.<ref name="pennolympics"/>

Though Penn played rugby per rugby union rules from 1929 through 1934,<ref>as reported in ''Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: (see EASTERN USA RUGBY UNION TEAMS 1929/30-1950/51)'' by Melvin I. Smith ([[Library of Congress]] Control Number 2008903251 first published December 2, 2008)</ref> there is no indication that Penn had a rugby team from 1935 through 1959 when Penn men's rugby became permanent due to leadership of Harry "Joe" Edwin Reagan III<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/media/2017/06/1960record.pdf |title=The Record of 1960 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |page=217}} Note: a team photo and erroneous report that the then newly founded rugby club was first rugby team Penn had ever fielded</ref> Penn's College class of 1962 and Penn Law class of 1965, who also went onto help create and incorporate (in 1975) and was Treasurer (in 1981) of [[USA Rugby]] and Oreste P. "Rusty" D'Arconte Penn's College class of 1966.<ref name="Penn Men"/> Thus, with D'Arconte's hustle and Reagan's charisma and organizational skills, a team, which had fielded a side of fifteen intermittently from 1912 through 1960, became permanent.

In spring of 1984, Penn women's rugby,<ref>The Daily Pennsylvanian, Volume C, Number 71, September 12, 1984</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dparchives.library.upenn.edu/?a=d&d=tdp19840912-01.2.47&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Rugby+Seligson+sohn------|title =Penn women tackle a male-dominated sport |last=Ashley |first=Marc |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |date=September 12, 1984 |via=Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives}}</ref> led by Social Chair Tamara Wayland (College class of 1985,<ref>{{cite web |title=Tamara Wayland |url=https://www.waylandlawpc.com/tamara-wayland |website=Wayland Law }}; {{cite web |title=Meet Tamara Wayland, Attorney |url=http://bethlynnandersenjd.com/about-andersen-law-pc/tamara-wayland-attorney/ |access-date=January 26, 2021 |website=Andersen Law |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115165716/http://bethlynnandersenjd.com/about-andersen-law-pc/tamara-wayland-attorney/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> who subsequently became the women's representative to and vice president of [[USA Rugby]] South from 1996 to 1998); club president Marianne Seligson; and [[Penn Law]] student [[Gigi Sohn]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.benton.org/blog/flexibility-humility-connectivity-three-ingredients-successful-career|title=Flexibility, Humility, Connectivity: Three Ingredients for a Successful Career|date=February 7, 2019|website=Benton Foundation}}</ref> began to compete. Penn women's rugby team is coached, as of 2020, by (a) Adam Dick,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennwrfc.wixsite.com/home/untitled-c1nhz|title=ABOUT|website=home}}</ref> a 300-level certified coach with over 15 years of rugby coaching experience including being the first coach of the first women's rugby team at the [[University of Arizona]] and who was a four-year starter at University of Arizona men's first XV rugby team and (b) Philly women's player Kate Hallinan.

Penn's men's rugby team plays in the [[Ivy Rugby Conference]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upennrugby.com/|title=The Official Website of the University of Pennsylvania's Men's Rugby Football Club|website=upennrugby.com}}</ref> and have finished as runners-up in both 15s and 7s in the Conference and won the Ivy Rugby Tournament in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |work=Rugby Mag |title=College 7s Looks to CRC |date=December 12, 2012 |url=http://www.rugbymag.com/tournaments-special/crc/6668-college-7s-looks-to-crc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116181127/http://www.rugbymag.com/tournaments-special/crc/6668-college-7s-looks-to-crc.html |archive-date=January 16, 2013 }}</ref> {{as of|2011}}, the club uses the state-of-the-art facilities at [[Penn Park]]. The Penn Quakers' rugby team played on national TV at the 2013 [[Collegiate Rugby Championship]], a college rugby tournament that for a number of years had been played each June at [[Subaru Park]] in Philadelphia, and was broadcast live on [[NBC]]. In their inaugural appearance in the tournament, the Penn men's rugby team won the Shield Competition, beating local [[Philadelphia Big 5|Big Five]] rival, [[Temple University]], 17–12 in the final. In the semifinal match of that Shield Competition, Penn Rugby became the first Philadelphia team to beat a non-Philadelphia team in CRC history, with a 14–12 win over the [[University of Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usasevenscrc.com/fixtures-and-results/|title=Fixtures and Results|work=usasevenscrc.com|access-date=June 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616152700/http://www.usasevenscrc.com/fixtures-and-results/|archive-date=June 16, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of 2020, Penn men's rugby team is coached by Tiger Bax,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://upennrugby.org/team |title=Team: Coaching staff |website=University of Pennsylvania Men's Rugby Football Club}}</ref> a former professional rugby player hailing from [[Cape Town, South Africa]], whose playing experience includes stints in the [[Super Rugby]] competition with the [[Stormers]] (15s) and Mighty Mohicans (7s), as well as with the [[Gallagher Premiership Rugby]] side, [[Saracens F.C.|Saracens]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/my_club/saracens/9409872.stm|title=Saracens sign South African Bax|date=February 28, 2011|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> and whose coaching experience includes three successful years as coach at Valley Rugby Football Club in [[Hong Kong]]; and Tyler May, from [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey]], who played rugby at [[Pennsylvania State University]] where he was a first XV player for three years.

Penn's graduate business and law schools also fielded rugby teams. The Wharton rugby team has competed from 1978 to the present.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wharthogs.com/ |title=Wharton Rugby Football Club |website=wharthogs.com/ |access-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806044430/http://www.wharthogs.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Penn Law Rugby team (1985 through 1993) counts among its alumni Walter Joseph [[Jay Clayton (attorney)|Jay Clayton]], III<ref>{{cite web|title=U.S. SEC chairman speaks at Ocean City H.S.|url=http://www.ocsentinel.com/news/u-s-sec-chairman-speaks-at-ocean-city-h-s/article_b8c160b0-821b-11e9-bf75-77961af868b1.html|access-date=July 26, 2019|website=Ocean City Sentinel|archive-date=July 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726204351/http://www.ocsentinel.com/news/u-s-sec-chairman-speaks-at-ocean-city-h-s/article_b8c160b0-821b-11e9-bf75-77961af868b1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Penn Law class of 1993, and chair of the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]] from May 4, 2017, until December 23, 2020, Raymond Hulser, former Chief of [[Public Integrity Section]] of [[United States Department of Justice]]<ref name=gao>{{cite journal|last=Ekstrand|first=Laurie E. |title=DOJ's Public Integrity Section: Case Management Policies Followed, but Closing Some Matters Took Too Long |journal=[[U.S. Government Accountability Office|U.S. General Accounting Office]] |date=January 2001|series=Report to the Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (GAO-01-122) |url=http://www.gao.gov/assets/160/157010.pdf}}</ref> (who also was hired by [[Smith special counsel investigation|DOJ special counsel Jack Smith to investigate the alleged mishandling by former President Donald J. Trump of certain top secret documents]]),<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Zachary |last2=Polantz |first2=Katelyn |last3=Sneed |first3=Tierney |last4=Murray |first4=Sara |last5=Reid |first5=Paula |date=2023-01-06 |title=Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/politics/january-6-justice-department-jack-smith-trump-investigation/index.html |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=[[CNN Politics]] |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106161349/https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/politics/january-6-justice-department-jack-smith-trump-investigation/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[United States magistrate judge|Magistrate Judge]] Bruce Reinhart<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/content/judge-bruce-e-reinhart | title=Judge Bruce e. Reinhart {{pipe}} Southern District of Florida {{pipe}} United States District Court }}</ref> who approved the [[FBI search of Mar-a-Lago|search of Mar-a-Lago]], the residence of current U.S. president [[Donald Trump]] in [[Palm Beach, Florida]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/us/politics/judge-bruce-reinhart-trump-mar-a-lago.html | title=Bruce Reinhart, the Magistrate Judge Who Approved the Mar-a-Lago Search | work=The New York Times | date=August 18, 2022 | last1=Montague | first1=Zach | last2=Robles | first2=Frances }}</ref>

Undergraduate Penn Rugby Alumni include (1) [[Conor Lamb]] (Penn College class of 2006 and Penn Law class of 2009), who played for undergraduate team, and, as of 2021, is a member of [[United States House of Representatives]], elected originally to [[Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district]], since 2019 is a former [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district]] and (2) Argentina's richest person,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Meet Argentina's richest man |url=https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/meet-argentinas-richest-man |access-date=30 June 2024 |magazine=The Economist |url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[Marcos Galperin]] (Wharton Undergraduate Class of 1994), a premier player on the 1992 Ivy League Tournament championship team,<ref>{{cite news |work=Miami Herald |title=Miami Sharks pro rugby team has deep Argentina ties, will play at Inter Miami ... |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mls/inter-miami/article279381349.htmlports/mls/inter-miami/article279381349.html |url-access=subscription}}</ref> who founded [[Mercado Libre]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Profile: Marcos Galperin|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/marcos-galperin|access-date=3 September 2021|work=Forbes}}</ref> an [[online marketplace]] dedicated to [[e-commerce]] and [[online auction]], which, as of 2016,<ref name="lar">{{Cite web |date=March 6, 2017 |title=The Free Market portal sold 181.2 million products in 2016 |url=http://www.larepublica.co/el-portal-mercado-libre-vendi%C3%B3-1812-millones-de-productos-en-2016_479791 |publisher=La Republica}}</ref> is the most popular e-commerce site in South America by number of visitors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Most popular online retailers in Latin America |url=http://www.statista.com/statistics/321543/latin-america-online-retailer-visitors |access-date=2016-04-28 |publisher=[[Statista]]}}</ref>

===Facilities===
[[File:Penn - Franklin Field - 1922.jpg|thumb|right|Penn's Franklin Field, in photograph taken shortly after completion of the upper deck in 1925]]

[[Franklin Field]], with a present seating capacity of 52,593,<ref name="pennathletics.com">{{cite web |title=Historic Moments |url=https://pennathletics.com/news/2018/12/21/general-historic-moments.aspx |website=University of Pennsylvania Athletics |access-date=October 6, 2022 |language=en |date=21 December 2018}}</ref> is where the Quakers play football, [[lacrosse]], [[sprint football]] and track and field (and formerly played baseball, [[field hockey]], soccer, and rugby). It is the oldest stadium still operating for college football games,<ref name="10 old">{{cite web |last=Northam |first=Mitchell |date=July 26, 2022 |title=These are the 10 oldest stadiums in Division I college football |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-07-26/these-are-10-oldest-stadiums-division-i-college-football |website=NCAA |language=en |access-date=September 13, 2023 |archive-date=October 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004183549/https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2022-07-26/these-are-10-oldest-stadiums-division-i-college-football?amp |url-status=dead }}</ref> first stadium to sport two tiers,<ref>{{cite web |title=Penn Athletics in the 19th Century |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/19th-century-athletics/ |website=archives.upenn.edu |publisher=Penn Libraries |access-date=1 October 2025}}</ref> first stadium in the country to have a scoreboard, second stadium to have a radio broadcast of football, first stadium from which a commercially televised football game was broadcast,<ref name="pennathletics.com"/> and first stadium from which college football game was broadcast in color.<ref name="eyesofageneration.com"/> Franklin Field also played host to the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] from 1958 to 1970.<ref name="pennathletics.com"/> Since 1895, Franklin Field has hosted the annual collegiate track and field event "the [[Penn Relays]]", which is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States.<ref>"History of the Penn Relays". Official Site of the Penn Relay Carnival. https://web.archive.org/web/20100427063802/http://www.thepennrelays.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1720&KEY=&ATCLID=1403812
Retrieved September 13, 2023</ref>

[[File:Palestra 1.jpg|thumb|right|Penn's [[Palestra]] is often referred to as the Cathedral of College Basketball.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/attractions/palestra/|title=Visit The Palestra}}</ref>]]

Penn's Palestra is home gym of the [[Penn Quakers]] men's and women's [[basketball]] and [[volleyball]] teams, [[collegiate wrestling|wrestling]] team, [[Philadelphia Big Five]] basketball, and other high school and college sporting events, and is located mere yards from [[Franklin Field]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULi42N9Epw8|title=Take a Tour of College Basketball Mecca The Palestra|date=July 3, 2008|via=YouTube}}</ref> The Palestra has been called "the most important building in the history of college basketball" and "changed the entire history of the sport for which it was built".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.si.com/fannation|title=HomePage - OnSI - Sports Illustrated|website=On SI}}</ref> The Palestra has hosted more NCAA Tournament basketball games than any other facility.

Penn's River Fields hosts a number of athletic fields including the Rhodes Soccer Stadium, the Ellen Vagelos C'90 Field Hockey Field, and Irving "Moon" Mondschein Throwing Complex.<ref>{{cite web|date=December 20, 2012|title=River Fields|url=https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/locations/river-fields|access-date=July 26, 2021|website=University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate Services|language=en}}</ref> Penn baseball plays its home games at [[Meiklejohn Stadium]] at Murphy Field.

Penn's [[Class of 1923 Arena]] (with seating for up to 3,000 people) was built to host the [[Penn Quakers men's ice hockey|University of Pennsylvania Varsity Ice Hockey Team]], which has been disbanded, and now hosts or in the past hosted: Penn's Men's and Penn Women's club ice hockey teams, practices or exhibition games for the [[Philadelphia Flyers]], [[Colorado Avalanche]] and [[Carolina Hurricanes]], roller hockey for the Philadelphia Bulldogs professional team, and rock concerts such as one in 1982 featuring Prince.<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/11/colorado-avalanche-practice-on-penn-campus
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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
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| title = Practice at the Class of 1923 Arena in Philadelphia – 01/22/2010 – Carolina Hurricanes – Photo Galleries
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/icerink/ | title=Penn Ice Rink at the Class of 1923 Arena Philadelphia PA }}</ref>
[[File:Penn Rowing Club at Boathouse Row.jpg|thumb|Penn's three rowing teams use [[College Boat Club|Number 11 Boathouse Row]] as their headquarters.]]

==People==
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=== Notable people ===
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Penn alumni, faculty and trustees include those who have distinguished themselves in the sciences, academia, politics, business, military, sports, arts, and media.

Since its founding, Penn alumni, trustees, and faculty have included eight [[Founding Fathers of the United States]] who signed the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]],<ref name="upenn2" /> seven who signed the [[United States Constitution]],<ref name="upenn2" /> and 24 members of the [[Continental Congress]].

Penn alumni include two [[List of presidents of the United States|presidents of the United States]] ([[William Henry Harrison]],{{refn|group=note|name="Harrison"|[[William Henry Harrison]] studied medicine at Penn from 1790 until his father died in 1791; after his father's death Harrison left the University to join the army.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=William H. Harrison |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=190|encyclopedia=Ohio History Central An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History|publisher=Ohio Historical Society|access-date=August 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231916/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=190|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>}} and [[Donald Trump]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-the-first-upenn-wharton-graduate-to-become-president-2016-11|title=Trump is the first UPenn graduate to make it to the White House — here are the colleges that have produced the most US presidents|last=Jackson|first=Abby|date=November 16, 2016|website=[[Business Insider]]|access-date=December 17, 2025}}</ref> 32 [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]], 163 members of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], 19 [[Cabinet of the United States|U.S. Cabinet Secretaries]], 46 [[Governor (United States)|governors]], and 28 [[State supreme court|State Supreme Court]] justices, 36 billionaires,<ref name="quartz" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Top Colleges for Billionaires |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardjchang/2024/06/09/top-colleges-for-billionaires/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> and {{As of|2023|lc=y}} there have been 38 Nobel laureates affiliated (see [[List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation]]) with the University.<ref name="UPennLaureates">{{cite web |title=Nobel Laureates at Penn |url=http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/awards/nobel.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103064008/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/notables/awards/nobel.html |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |access-date=October 20, 2008 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref><ref name=":1">[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004182045/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/health/nobel-prize-medicine.html?smid=nytcore-android-share|date=October 4, 2023}} accessed October 2, 2023</ref>

Prior to becoming [[President of United States|president of the United States]], [[Joe Biden]] was a [[Benjamin Franklin]] Presidential Practice Professor at University of Pennsylvania, where he led the [[Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement]], a center focused principally on diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://amc.sas.upenn.edu/people/senior-fellow-joe-biden | title=Joe Biden &#124; the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy }}</ref>

Nine foreign [[Head of state|heads of state]] attended Penn (including former prime minister of the Philippines, [[Cesar Virata]]; first president of [[Nigeria]], [[Nnamdi Azikiwe]]; first president of [[Ghana]], [[Kwame Nkrumah]], former Prime Minister of [[Latvia]], [[Krišjānis Kariņš]], former President of [[Panama]], [[Ernesto Pérez Balladares]], former [[President of Argentina]], [[Mauricio Macri]], former President of [[Estonia]], [[Toomas Hendrik Ilves]],
and the current president of [[Ivory Coast]], [[Alassane Ouattara]].<ref> clock on hyperlink to see sources: [[List of heads of state and government educated in the United States]]</ref>   {{Source needed|date=June 2025}}

Penn alumni or faculty also include three [[United States Supreme Court]] justices ([[William J. Brennan]], [[Owen J. Roberts]], and [[James Wilson (Founding Father)|James Wilson]]) and four Supreme Court justices of foreign nations, (including [[Ronald Wilson]] of the [[High Court of Australia]], [[Ayala Procaccia]] of the [[Israel Supreme Court]], [[Yvonne Mokgoro]], former justice of the [[Constitutional Court]] of [[South Africa]], and Irish [[Court of Appeal (Ireland)|Court of Appeal]] justice [[Gerard Hogan]]).{{Source needed|date=June 2025}}

Penn alumni in [[business]], [[finance]] and [[investment banking]] include [[Warren Buffett]]{{refn|group=note|Buffett studied at Penn for two years before he transferred to the [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln|University of Nebraska]].}} (CEO of [[Berkshire Hathaway]]), [[Charles Butt]] (Chairman and CEO of [[H-E-B]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://magazine.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/anniversary-issue/hbe-express-checkout/|title=Express Checkout For Retailing Innovations: Charles Butt, W’59|website=Wharton Magazine|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref> [[Richard Bloch]] (Co-founder of [[H&R Block]]), [[Josh Harris (businessman)|Josh Harris]] (Co-founder of [[Apollo Global Management]]), [[Leonard Lauder]] (Chairman & CEO of [[The Estée Lauder Companies]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/business/leonard-a-lauder-dead.html|title=Leonard A. Lauder, Philanthropist and Cosmetics Heir, Dies at 92|last=McFadden|first=Robert|date=June 15, 2025|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref> [[Elon Musk]] (CEO of [[Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]], cofounder of [[OpenAI]] and [[Neuralink]], founder of [[SpaceX]], [[The Boring Company]] and [[xAI (company)|xAI]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/11/penn-trump-elon-musk-administration-government-efficiency|title=Inside Elon Musk and Trump’s friendship: The two Penn alumni jointly revamping government|last=Rawiszer|first=Paige|date=November 14, 2024|website=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref> [[Edmund T. Pratt Jr.]] (Chairman & CEO of [[Pfizer]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/business/edmund-taylor-pratt-jr-75-a-former-chairman-of-pfizer.html|title=Edmund Taylor Pratt Jr., 75, A Former Chairman of Pfizer|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=September 7, 2002|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref> and [[Sundar Pichai]] (CEO of [[Alphabet, Inc.|Alphabet]] and [[Google]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Long|first=Heather |date=October 2, 2014 |title=Want a job on Wall Street? Go to UPenn or Georgetown|url=https://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/investing/investment-banking-job-linkedin-upenn-georgetown-yale/index.html|access-date=August 26, 2020|website=CNNMoney}}</ref>

Penn alumni have won 53 [[Tony Awards]],<ref>{{Citation | last = Siegel | first = Tatiana | title = NY Comic-Con: Beatles Manager Getting Biopic From Broadway's Vivek J. Tiwary | newspaper = The Hollywood Reporter | date = October 10, 2012 | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fifth-beatle-vivek-j-tiwary-brian-epstein-377904 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pilambdaphi.org/news/vivek-tiwary-award-winning-broadway-producer-who-brought-punk-to-broadway-96-penn/ | title=Vivek Tiwary: Award winning producer who brought punk to Broadway - '96 Penn | date=August 9, 2022 }}</ref> 17 [[Grammy Awards]],<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-03-17 |title=Indian American Vivek Tiwary Wins Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for 'Jagged Little Pill' |url=https://americankahani.com/entertainment/indian-american-vivek-tiwary-wins-grammy-for-best-musical-theater-album-for-jagged-little-pill/ |access-date=2023-09-09 |website=American Kahani |language=en-US}}</ref> 25 [[Emmy Awards]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foxsports.com/personalities/tom-rinaldi/bio | title=Tom Rinaldi Bio & Career Accomplishments }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.profootballnetwork.com/who-is-tom-rinaldi-breaking-down-the-award-winning-journalists-career/ | title=Who is Tom Rinaldi? Breaking Down the Award-Winning Journalist's Career | date=February 12, 2023 }}</ref> 13 [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], and 1 [[EGOT]] ([[John Legend]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.businessinsider.com/egot-how-long-it-took-every-winner-and-john-legend-to-get-all-awards-2018-9 | title=This chart shows how long it took all 15 EGOT winners to get their awards, and John Legend was one of the fastest | website=[[Business Insider]] }}</ref>).{{refn|group=note|See [[List of University of Pennsylvania people]] 'Arts, media, and entertainment' section for list of Penn alumni who earned Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award winners, replete with hyperlinks.}}

In the military, Penn alumni include [[Samuel Nicholas]], "founder" of [[United States Marine Corps]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ns_nicholas/ | title=Major Samuel Nicholas, Continental Marines (Ca. 1744 –1790) }}</ref> and [[William A. Newell]], whose congressional action formed a predecessor to the current [[United States Coast Guard]].<ref name="MJ-obit">{{Cite news |url=http://www.digifind-it.com/data/matawan/journal/1901/1901-08-15.pdf |title=Death of Governor Newell |newspaper=The Matawan Journal |date=August 15, 1901 |volume=33 |number=7 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723221754/http://www.digifind-it.com/data/matawan/journal/1901/1901-08-15.pdf  |url-status=dead |at=p. 1, col. 5; p. 2 col. 1}}</ref> Two Penn alumni have been [[NASA]] [[astronaut]]s,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biographical Data|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=October 14, 2023|archive-date=February 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212170249/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/bluford_guion.pdf}}</ref> and five Penn alumni have been awarded the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref name="MoH Recipients"/><ref name="na"/> 
[[File:All Wars memorial Penn.JPG|thumb|In 1952, in presence of then Penn President [[Harold Stassen]] Penn installed (near corner of 33rd Street and [[Edgar Fahs Smith|Smith Walk]]) "War Memorial Flagpole" (aka "All Wars Memorial to Penn Alumni"), which honors Penn faculty, students, and alumni who died in military service.<ref>{{cite web |title=War Memorial Flagpole (1951) |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/war-memorial-flagpole/ |website=[[Association for Public Art]] |access-date=3 December 2024}}</ref>]]

At least 43 different Penn alumni have earned 81 Olympic medals (26 gold).<ref name="pennolympics">{{cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/olympics/athletes |title=Penn in the Olympics |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821044816/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/olympics/athletes |url-status=live }}</ref>{{refn|group=note|See [[list of University of Pennsylvania people]] athletics section for list of Penn Olympic medal winners, replete with hyperlinks.}}

Penn's alumni also include poets [[Ezra Pound]] and [[William Carlos Williams]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/archive/john_timpane/penn-conference-on-ezra-pound-homecoming-for-a-bad-boy-genius-20170620.html|title=Penn conference on Ezra Pound: Homecoming for a bad-boy genius|last=Timpane|first=John|date=June 20, 2017|website=Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=December 26, 2025}}</ref> civil rights leader [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/martin-luther-king-jrs-time-studying-penn|title=Martin Luther King Jr.’s time studying at Penn|date=April 4, 2018|website=Penn Today|access-date=December 26, 2025}}</ref> linguist and political theorist [[Noam Chomsky]], athletes [[Jerome Allen (basketball)|Jerome Allen]], [[Chuck Bednarik]], [[Mark DeRosa]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/04/mark-derosa-manager-team-usa-2026-world-baseball-classic|title=Former dual-sport Penn athlete Mark DeRosa will serve as Team USA manager at 2026 World Baseball Cup|last=Katz|first=Emma|date=April 10, 2025|website=[[The Daily Pennsylvanian]]|access-date=December 24, 2025}}</ref> [[Doug Glanville]], and [[Justin Watson (wide receiver)|Justin Watson]], businesspeople [[Steve Cohen (businessman)|Steve Cohen]], [[J. D. Power III]], [[Donald Trump Jr.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-college-partying-womanizing/|title=Stay Away from Donnie Trump': Inside Don Jr.'s Drinking, Womanizing and Frat Guy Antics|last=McAfee|first=Tierney|date=July 19, 2017|website=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=December 26, 2025}}</ref> [[Ivanka Trump]] and [[George Herbert Walker IV]], journalist's [[Max Blumenthal]], [[Nancy Cordes]], [[Jeffrey Goldberg]], [[Andrea Mitchell]] and [[Ashley Parker]], architect [[Louis Kahn]], cartoonist [[Charles Addams]], actors and actresses  [[Candice Bergen]], [[Elizabeth Banks]], [[Bruce Dern]], [[Melissa Fitzgerald]], [[James McDaniel]] and [[Becki Newton]].

=== Alumni organizations ===
Penn has over 120 international alumni clubs in 52 countries and 37 states, which offer opportunities for alumni to reconnect, participate in events, and work on collaborative initiatives.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=400 | title=Alumni Regional Clubs }}</ref> In addition, in 1989, Penn bought a 14-story clubhouse building (purpose-built for [[Yale Club of New York City|Yale Club]]) in New York City from [[Touro College]] for {{USD|15 million|long=no}}<ref name=Historic>{{cite web |url=http://nycnpc.org/db/bb_files/2010-FormerYaleClubofNewYorkCityBuilding.pdf |title=(Former) Yale Club of New York City Building (now Penn Club of New York) |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York City |date=February 9, 2010 |access-date=July 24, 2022 |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219035002/http://nycnpc.org/db/bb_files/2010-FormerYaleClubofNewYorkCityBuilding.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> to house Penn's largest alumni chapter. After raising a separate {{USD|25 million|long=no}} (including {{USD|150,000|long=no}}+ donations each from such alumni as [[Estée Lauder (businesswoman)|Estee Lauder]] heirs [[Leonard Lauder]] and [[Ronald Lauder]], [[Saul Steinberg (businessman)|Saul Steinberg]], [[Michael Milken]], [[Donald Trump]], and [[Ronald Perelman]]) and two years of renovation,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/14/garden/currents-clubhouse-for-penn.html|title=CURRENTS; Clubhouse for Penn (Published 1994)|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 14, 1994|last1=Moonan|first1=Wendy}}</ref> the [[Penn Club of New York]] moved to its current location at [[30 West 44th Street]] on NYC's Clubhouse Row.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/realestate/penns-racing-to-join-clubhouse-row.html |title=Penn's Racing to Join Clubhouse Row|work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Peter|last=Slatin|date=May 9, 1993|access-date=November 2, 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Education in Philadelphia]]
* [[List of universities by number of billionaire alumni]]
* [[Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)]]
* [[University of Pennsylvania Press]]

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