Univ. of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

Latin: Universitas Pennsylvaniensis
Motto	Leges sine moribus vanae (Latin)
Motto in English	Laws without morals are useless
Type	Private research university
Established	November 14, 1740; 277 years ago (1740-11-14)
Founder	Benjamin Franklin
Endowment	US$12.2 billion (2017)
Budget	$8.78 billion (2017)
President	Amy Gutmann
Provost	Wendell Pritchett
Board Chair	David L. Cohen
Academic staff	4,638 faculty members
Administrative staff	2,489
Students	21,599 (2017)
Undergraduates	10,496 (2017)
Postgraduates	11,013 (2017)
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Campus	Urban, 1,085 acres (4.39 km2) total: 299 acres (1.21 km2), University City campus; 694 acres (2.81 km2), New Bolton Center; 92 acres (0.37 km2), Morris Arboretum
Colors	Red and Blue
Athletics	NCAA Division I – Ivy League Philadelphia Big 5 City 6
Nickname	Quakers
Affiliations	AAU COFHE NAICU 568 Group URA
Website	upenn.edu

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in the University City section of Philadelphia. Incorporated as The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, advocated an educational program that focused as much on practical education for commerce and public service as on the classics and theology, though his proposed curriculum was never adopted. The university coat of arms features a dolphin on the red chief, adopted directly from the Franklin family's own coat of arms. Penn was one of the first academic institutions to follow a multidisciplinary model pioneered by several European universities, concentrating multiple "faculties" (e.g., theology, classics, medicine) into one institution. It was also home to many other educational innovations. The first school of medicine in North America (Perelman School of Medicine, 1765), the first collegiate business school (Wharton School, 1881) and the first "student union" building and organization (Houston Hall, 1896) were founded at Penn. With an endowment of $12.21 billion (2017), Penn had the seventh largest endowment of all colleges in the United States. All of Penn's schools exhibit very high research activity. In fiscal year 2015, Penn's academic research budget was $851 million, involving more than 4,300 faculty, 1,100 postdoctoral fellows and 5,500 support staff/graduate assistants.