University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Ivy League

The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, founded in 1740.

Commonly called Penn or UPenn to distinguish it from Penn State, it includes the Wharton School of Business: She got her MBA from Penn.

The athletic teams are the Quakers.

academics

Wharton

Top-ranked management school

professor · syllabus · lectures · seminar · major · minor · degree · tuition · scholarship · research

Ivy-League

Harvard

Prestigious Cambridge university

Brown · Dartmouth · Cornell · elite · selective · endowment · tradition · prestigious · renowned · Quaker

Philadelphia

SEPTA

Philadelphia metro transit

campus

quad

Enclosed campus lawn

research

laboratory

Facility for scientific investigation

grant · funding · neuroscience · genomics · CRISPR · veterinary · dental · patent · collaboration · interdisciplinary

Opposites
institutional identity confusion

University of PennsylvaniaPenn State

Large Pennsylvania public university

community college · state university · public university · Temple University · land-grant university

ivy league prestige hierarchy

University of PennsylvaniaHarvard University

Elite Cambridge-based academic institution

Yale University · Princeton University · Cornell University · Brown University · community college

higher education access

University of Pennsylvaniacommunity college

Two-year public institution

for-profit college · vocational school

Family

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