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Overview

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 26th 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. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Temple has five regional campuses, including the flagship Main Campus, Health Sciences Center, and Center City Campus in Philadelphia; a major suburban campus -- Temple University at Ambler; and a suburban art campus -- Tyler School of Art -- in Elkins Park. The University has education centers in Harrisburg and Fort Washington, and international campuses in Tokyo, Japan, and Rome, Italy. Temple also offers educational programs in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Greece, Great Britain, France and other countries throughout the world.

Through its various schools and colleges, Temple University offers degree programs in 2 associate degree areas, 125 bachelor's degree areas, 108 master's degree areas, 52 doctoral degree areas, and 8 first professional degree areas. Dr. Russell H. Conwell founded the institution in 1884, chartered as Temple College in 1888 and incorporated as Temple University in 1907. In 1965, by the Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Temple University became a state-related institution in the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.

Culture

Temple University desires to attract, retain and motivate competent and dedicated employees who can share in the successful growth of the University and attain their individual career objective, consistent with an overall University emphasis on the pursuit of professional and academic excellence. Pay is based upon internal equity (order of importance of jobs within the University) and external competitiveness (overall wage and salary levels reasonably comparable to the marketplace). In support of this philosophy, Temple University has established a Compensation program with processes and procedures that provide support to departments to assure efficient pay delivery.

Benefits

Temple University offers an array of benefits. Helping employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle and invest wisely in their future is the foremost concern. The Benefits Division continually focuses on enhancing their comprehensive benefits package.

Vision

Temple University is a national center of excellence in teaching and research with an international presence.

Temple’s talented faculty and its broad curriculum of nearly 300 academic programs provide superior educational opportunities for academically talented and highly motivated students, without regard to their status or station in life. Temple’s richly diverse student population and the dramatic growth of Temple’s residential campus community of student scholars enrich the educational and extracurricular life of all Temple’s people.

While the University especially serves students from Greater Philadelphia, it is enlivened by a rapidly increasing number of students from across Pennsylvania, throughout the nation, and around the world. Temple maintains an international presence with campuses in Tokyo and Rome and prestigious programs in London, Beijing, and six other locations worldwide.

A long-time leader in professional education, Temple prepares the largest body of practitioners in Pennsylvania and is among the nation’s largest educators in the combined fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry and law. In addition, Temple offers more than four dozen doctoral and more than 100 master’s degree programs that contribute to research and scholarship. Temple seeks to create new knowledge that improves the human condition and uplifts the human spirit. To achieve this goal, Temple maintains its commitment to recruiting, retaining, and supporting outstanding faculty that prize diversity of thought, excel in scholarly endeavors, and support the aspirations of capable students.

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Temple University offers 295 academic degree programs.
There are two associate degree programs (Horticulture
and General Studies), 125 bachelors programs, 108
masters programs, 52 doctoral programs, and eight firstprofessional
degree programs in the fields of dentistry,
law, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine.
There are also eight certificate programs.