Temple University (TU)

Instruction - as a comprehensive state related research University, our 40,000 students can choose from 8 campuses and more than 500 academic degree programs including: associate degree programs, bachelors programs, masters programs, doctoral programs and first-professional degree programs in dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine.

RESEARCH - Temple University is classified as a Doctoral University-Very High Research Activity, also known as R1, by the Carnegie Classification of Higher Education. This assessment is based on a combination of measures to reflect the institution's research productivity and academic profile. Temple University is one of 130 institutions that receive the R1 designation, indicating that it is a top university in the nation with comprehensive curricula and nationally recognized research and doctoral education programs. Temple University receives research funding from federal, state, and local government sources as well as foundations and industry sponsors. Federal funding comes from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation along with the Departments of Defense, Education, Energy, Justice and NASA. Funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania comes from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Departments of Aging, Education, Community and Economic Development and Public Welfare.

Patient care - Temple University has approximately 500 full-time and part-time faculty members in the lewis katz school Of medicine at Temple University . Temple physicians have a long standing reputation for extraordinary capabilities in virtually every subspecialty in modern medicine. Temple University brings together the physician expertise necessary for the full range Of tertiary and quaternary services. Increasingly, the University is deploying its physicians in the community and throughout the region. Additionally, the University provides care without charge or for amounts less than its established rates, to patients who meet certain criteria under the University's charity care policy. Some patients qualify for charity care based on federal poverty guidelines or their financial condition being such that requiring payment would impose hardship. During the year, the estimated costs incurred to provide charity care, net Of payments from medical assistance programs, were $61,621,000.