16. University of Pennsylvania
City: Philadelphia, PA
Category: Education
Telephone: (215) 898-7507
Address: 3451 Walnut St.
Description: Benjamin Franklin founded this world-renowned institution, the country’s first university. The student body consists of 10,000 students in its undergraduate program plus another 10,000 attending its 12 graduate and professional schools. Penn is probably most well known for its Wharton School of Business, and its schools of law, medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, and the Annenberg School for Communications are equally strong. Cross-disciplinary programs make it possible to design dual degrees in such areas as management and engineering or management and technology.
17. University of the Arts
City: Philadelphia, PA
Category: Education
Address: 320 S. Broad St.
Description: Founded over 130 years ago, University of the Arts was the first and remains the only university in the US dedicated to offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the visual, performing, and communication arts.
18. Lincoln University
City: Philadelphia, PA
Category: Education
Telephone: (610) 932-8300
Address: 1570 Baltimore Pike
Description: Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall were among the luminaries who graduated from Lincoln. For the first 100 years after its founding in 1854, this 2,000-student institution graduated approximately 20 percent of the black physicians and more than 10 percent of the black attorneys in the US.
19. Bryn Mawr College
City: Philadelphia, PA
Category: Education
Telephone: (610) 526-5000
Address: 101 N. Merion Ave.
Description: The Wall Street Journal ranked this all-women’s institution among the nation’s top 10 feeder schools to the nation’s top law, medical, and business schools as well as in percentage of graduates going on to earn a Ph.D. Bryn Mawr offers 36 majors; 30 percent of students pursue majors in the natural sciences or mathematics (compared to 7 percent national average). Students have a 75 percent rate of acceptance to medical schools.