unitid 216339 · Philadelphia, PA · public 4-year · city (large)
Temple University
Public university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- founded
- 1884
- enrollment 2023
- 35,985
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- temple.edu/
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, then called Baptist Temple. Today, Temple is the third-largest university in Pennsylvania by enrollment and awarded 9,128 degrees in the 2023–24 academic year. It has a worldwide alumni base of 378,012, with 352,175 alumni residing in the United States. wikipedia rev 1363056888 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
80%
44th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
20,970
88th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
32%
undergrads on Pell grants
50th pctl among public 4-years
completion
75%
finish within 150% time
92nd pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$40,903
99th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$28,198
after aid, aided students
99th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$63,727
after entry, Title IV students
84th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$24,395
86th pctl among public 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 $22,694 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k22%
- 30-48k13%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110k17%
- 110k+33%
- Median family income
- $59,850
- First-generation students
- 30%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $23,011
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.6× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 355 | $50,596 | $26,000 |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 299 | $104,762 | $26,000 |
| Medicine. | 255 | $136,928 | — |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 253 | $63,387 | $26,000 |
| Biology, General. | 245 | $73,979 | $26,000 |
| Marketing. | 237 | $74,250 | $26,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 235 | $82,053 | $26,000 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 231 | $138,380 | — |
| Law. | 210 | $107,536 | — |
| Public Health. | 190 | $56,494 | $27,000 |
| Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General. | 189 | — | $25,998 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 182 | $63,192 | $26,000 |
— 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 · 2,338 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 occupationsbasketball player (501) · researcher (440) · university teacher (146) · politician (110) · writer (107) · American football player (78) · journalist (68) · actor (61)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Bill Cosby
84 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Ted Bundy
81 wikis · Public domain
Bob Saget
70 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Hage Geingob
54 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Robert K. Merton
53 wikis · CC0
Kunal Nayyar
47 wikis · Public domain
Adam McKay
44 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tom Sizemore
43 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Paul F. Tompkins
43 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Richard Brooks
40 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Irvin Kershner
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Diplo
38 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nika Gilauri
37 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Jesse Williams
36 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: Mark Margolis.
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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 1363056888), CC BY-SA 4.0.