Temple University

Temple University commonly referred to as Temple is a comprehensive state related formerly private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Minister Russell . Temple University is ranked by the Carnegie Classification of of Institutions of Higher Education as 

a "Doctoral University: Highest Research Activity" or R1, placing it among the top four percent of all four-year institutions in the nation. In 2013, Temple received over $224 million in research funding, ranking it 94th out of 643 institutions in the Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

As of 2014, more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are enrolled in over 400 academic degree programs offered at seven campuses and sites in Pennsylvania, and international campuses in Rome, Tokyo, Singapore and London.

 Temple is among the nation's largest providers of professional education law, medicine, podiatry, pharmacy, dentistry, and architecture preparing the largest body of professional practitioners in 

Temple University offers more than 400 degree programs at 17 schools and colleges and five professional schools, including programs in art, business, communications, education, engineering, liberal arts, music, science, and the health professions.

In U.S. News & World Report's 2016 rankings, Temple is 55th among U.S. public universities, tied for 115th among all national universities and ranked 356th globally Temple undergraduate college is among the top colleges profiled in The Princeton Review's The Best 379 colleges .Temple's Arts and Humanities faculty

 Social Science and Management faculty, Life Science and Medicine faculty are ranked 182nd, 339th, 350th respectively in the world in 2014 by World University Rankings. Temple's Social Science faculty is also ranked 76-100 in the world in 2015 by 

. Temple is ranked 94th out of 643 US institutions in National Science Foundation's 2013 Higher education Research and Development Survey.
Forbes placed Temple University 396th in its 2015 college rankings

Temple's Fox School of Business, founded in 1918, is one of the largest business schools in the country. Its undergraduate program is ranked 62nd in the country by US News & World Report, with its programs in International Business, Management Information Systems and Insurance rank 13th, 13th and 4th

 respectively. The Fox School of Business is also ranked as the 41st best graduate program in the nation for business by U.S. News and World Report with International Business being 15th, Information Systems Program being 16th and Part-time MBA Program being 20th in the U.S. The Fox School offers 13

 undergraduate majors, 10 professional masters programs, two PhD programs, and the school has a variety of international partnerships. Fox Business School is considered as a 4 Of Excellent Business School by Temple's Economics Business program is ranked 51 75 in the world by in 2015. The Fox School of 

Business's Executive MBA program is ranked 13th in the U.S. programs and 58th in the world by Financial Times in 2014, 45th in the world and 28th in the US by The Economist in 2015. Other MBA offerings include the Full-time MBA 41st among US programs by US News and World Report, 33rd among US

 programs and 57th in the world by The Economist and 32nd in North America by , Part-time MBA top 20 among U.S. programs by U.S. News & World Report and an Online MBA, which is ranked 1st in the US by U.S. News & World Report and is one of 14 honor roll recipients among graduate business programs

 Fox's Actuarial Science program is among 21 North American universities in Center of Actuarial Excellence by Society of Actuaries. Fox's Insurance department is also ranked 30th in the world for its Graduate Actuarial Science program by Fox's Actuarial Science program is currently ranked 4th in the US.

Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice, in the College of Liberal Arts, hosts one of the top graduate programs in criminal justice and criminology. U.S. News & World Report ranked the graduate department 11th in the U.S. in 2015. The department is also nationally and internationally known for its

 research, and has received more than $5 million in external funding for research. The The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked it number 6 in the 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Temple's English Literature program is also ranked 63rd in the US by U.S. News & World Report and 251-300 in the world

 by World University Rankings in 2015. Other programs such as Psychology, History, Political Science are ranked 52nd, 64th and 76th in the US respectively by U.S. News & World Report.