Temple University, of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, is a comprehensive public research university with more than 34,000 students. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Dentistry, and a renowned Health Sciences Center. Temple is one of Pennsylvania's three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.
Temple University is the 28th largest university in the United States, and it is the 6th largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country.
Founded - 1884
Campus setting - Urban 110 acre campus
Endowment - $166.1 million
Student/faculty ratio - 18 : 1
Type - State related university
DRS administers scholarship grants from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, Julia and Erling Indahl Foundation, and the Bertha Pasternak Feldman Scholarship Fund. Awards to matriculated students with permanent physical disabilities who have financial need are available each semester. These individual, need-based scholarship help pay for disability-related academic support services, transportation, internship costs, housing and tuition expenses. Students can apply for these scholarships at the beginning of each semester through DRS.
