Temple University Today
Temple University is thriving as a national center of excellence in teaching, research and community service. Temple today is:
• attracting record numbers of students with unprecedented academic credentials from an ever-broadening geographic reach
• widely recognized has having one of America’s most diverse student bodies
• creating a vibrant campus life with more than 37,000 students universitywide and 11,000 students living on or adjacent to Main Campus
• ranked as a national leader in campus technology, including one of the largest on-campus computer facilities in the nation, with 600 workstations and 100 laptops
• in the process of recruiting more than 300 scholars from the world’s leading educational institutions
• growing its research enterprise in medicine, technology, science and other areas
• a global university, with campuses in Rome and Tokyo and study-abroad programs in London, Beijing, Brazil, Senegal, India and other locations
• undertaking more than $500 million in campus construction and renovation projects, attracting more than $200 million in private investment to the neighborhood
• the third largest private employer in the City of Philadelphia, with direct expenditures generating more than $3 billion per year for Pennsylvania’s economy• in the midst of its first comprehensive fundraising campaign, Access to Excellence: The 125th Anniversary Campaign for Temple, raising $350 million for students, faculty, facilities, research and community initiatives