Drexel

Penn's institutional neighbor

Drexel is a proper name, most commonly associated with Drexel University in Philadelphia.

The name also appears in street names and institutions across the United States, often honoring the Drexel family of Philadelphia bankers and philanthropists: She's studying engineering at Drexel.

university

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania's largest metropolis

  • engineeringDesigning functional systems scientifically
  • co-opMember-owned organization
  • dragonsMythical fire-breathing reptiles

nursing · architecture · business · medicine · tuition · campus · undergrad · graduate · STEM · research

finance

Burnham

investment · banking · securities · trading · leveraged buyouts · scandal · insider · merger · acquisition · eighties

surname

Burnham

  • LambertFranco-Germanic hereditary name
  • financierManager of substantial funds
  • bankingFinancial institution transactions

Anthony · family · heritage · lineage · American · philanthropist · dynasty · founder · namesake · industrialist

Opposites
academic prestige/selectivity

DrexelHarvard

Prestigious Cambridge university

Yale · Princeton · Penn · Columbia · Stanford

educational philosophy

DrexelSwarthmore

Elite Pennsylvania liberal arts college

Williams · Amherst · liberal arts college

institutional type

DrexelPenn State

Large Pennsylvania public university

state university · public university · Temple · community college · Rutgers

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G