Temple University
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public research university in Philadelphia, United States
Key facts
- Former names
- The Baptist Temple (1884–1888), The Temple College of Philadelphia (1888–1907), Philadelphia Dental College (1863–1907), Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women (1910–1958), Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (1963–1998)
- Motto
- Perseverantia Vincit ( Latin )
- Motto in english
- Perseverance Conquers
- Type
- Public state-related research university
- Established
- May 12, 1888 ; 138 years ago ( May 12, 1888 ) (official date it was chartered; institution roots began 1884 with church classes)
- Founder
- Russell Conwell
- Accreditation
- MSCHE
- Academic affiliations
- CUMU GCU ORAU USU Space-grant
- Endowment
- $1.05 billion (2025)
- Chancellor
- Richard M. Englert (honorary)
- President
- John Fry
- Provost
- Gregory Mandel
- Academic staff
- 1,327 part-time;, 2,125 full-time (fall 2024)
- Administrative staff
- 3,805 (fall 2024)
- Students
- 30,005 (fall 2024)
- Undergraduates
- 21,747 (fall 2024)
- Postgraduates
- 8,258 (fall 2024)
- Location
- Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Education, Funder
- Founded
- 1884
- Location
- Philadelphia, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- collection
- Official name
- Temple University
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Philadelphia
- Founded by
- Russell Conwell
- Employees
- 8779
- Official website
- www.temple.edu
- Image
- WTP B20 Audrey 1.jpg
- Students count
- 32537
- Admission rate
- 0.71
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- web feed URL
- www.temple.edu/rss.xml
- category of associated people
- Category:Temple University people
- athletics program
- Temple Owls
- Commons category
- Temple University
- topic's main category
- Category:Temple University
- inception
- 1884-00-00
- postal code
- 19122-6096
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Temple University alumni
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:Temple University faculty
- API endpoint URL
- fim.temple.edu/idp/shibboleth
- social media followers
- 162337
- native label
- Temple University
- total assets
- 5453339000
- endowment
- 835240942
- admission yield rate
- 0.2
- language used
- English language
- academic calendar type
- semester
- P12749
- IBM Fellow
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Encyclopedic overview
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, then called Baptist Temple. Today, Temple is the third-largest university in Pennsylvania by enrollment and awarded 9,128 degrees in the 2023–24 academic year. It has a worldwide alumni base of 378,012, with 352,175 alumni residing in the United States.
The university consists of 17 schools and colleges, including five professional schools, offering over 640+ academic programs and over 160 undergraduate majors. As of 2024, about 30,005 undergraduate, graduate and professional students were enrolled at the university. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity," spending $301,395,000 on research and development in 2022 according to the National Science Foundation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Temple University” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.