unitid 215062 · Philadelphia, PA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
University of Pennsylvania
Private university in Philadelphia, US
- founded
- 1740
- enrollment 2023
- 32,205
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- upenn.edu
The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of founder and first president Benjamin Franklin, who advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service. wikipedia rev 1364375497 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
5%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
10,650
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
17%
undergrads on Pell grants
14th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
97%
finish within 150% time
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$89,028
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$28,699
after aid, aided students
76th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$111,371
after entry, Title IV students
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$15,715
11th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $-3,012 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k25%
- 30-48k16%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110k10%
- 110k+34%
- Median family income
- $39,832
- First-generation students
- 19%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $68,686
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 7.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 694 | $279,525 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 581 | $253,891 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 348 | $265,790 | — |
| Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations. | 330 | $239,096 | — |
| Data Analytics. | 261 | — | — |
| Law. | 248 | $290,543 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 241 | $136,122 | — |
| Economics. | 238 | $152,236 | $14,000 |
| Social Work. | 225 | $66,376 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 200 | — | $15,750 |
| Architectural Sciences and Technology. | 196 | $69,629 | — |
| Computer Science. | 194 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 8,617 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,589) · university teacher (1,022) · basketball player (541) · writer (357) · politician (356) · economist (315) · historian (238) · lawyer (236)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Christian B. Anfinsen Chemistry 1972
- Lawrence Klein Economics 1980
- Ahmed Zewail Chemistry 1999
- Hideki Shirakawa Chemistry 2000
- Edmund Phelps Economics 2006
- George E. Smith Physics 2009
- Ei-ichi Negishi Chemistry 2010
- Thomas J. Sargent Economics 2011
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364375497), CC BY-SA 4.0.