Type: Private
State: Pennsylvania
Website: www.upenn.edu


Quick Overview:
Great infrastructures, library and athletic facilities, good food off-campus, satisfied students.


The word from: the Students

At UPenn, everyone shares the same intellectual curiosity and the top-notch resources offered. It's strong academic reputation and large alumni network are enough reasons to be proud of the school. Students are very passionate about what they do in and out of class and take all the opportunities given at UPenn. Its four undergrad schools are very focused on the future of their students, for instance Wharton has a great professional atmosphere. Students are kept motivated and competitive in their studies during the week. This career centered attitude is well noted among students, with more space for creativity than to step on each other.

Professors can get caught in their own research and leaving classes a bit behind, but there are not many places where you can be taught by people that are references in their fields of knowledge. If you put time and effort into it professors will gladly aid in whatever they can. They can be however quite challenging academically. The administration is very professional and helpful, really concerned about their students.
In short UPenn offers academic opportunities like no where else.


Partying at UPenn can be the most intense out of all ivy league universities or colleges. There is a clear effort not to have classes on Friday so that the weekend starts earlier. When it comes to mid terms and finals though, people get into it seriously and study. Besides the entertainment offered by New York and Philadelphia on the weekends, there's also plenty of restaurants, shopping, concerts and sports games, as well as just hanging with fellow students to play console games. The school makes it so that there are always plenty guest speakers, cultural events, clubs and organizations for students to keep themselves busy and so
people are always trying to balance school work during the week and all the activity during weekends.

The general population of UPenn is very career-focused, takes classes pretty seriously, politically tends to be left and the majority is of type A personality. The sense of personal style is very strong among students and no group deviates much from the typical stereotypes.