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Instructiondrexel is a comprehensive national research university dedicated to providing quality undergraduate, graduate and professional education featuring excellent academics, state-of-the-art technology and a focus on real-world learning and service. Drexel is classified as an r1 research university in the carnegie classification of institutions of higher education - a rank that denotes the highest level of research activity, held by just 37 private universities around the country. Drexel disclosed 49 new inventions and received 34 new united states patents in fiscal year 2024. The university's mission serves traditional, adult and online students. Drexel offers nationally accredited programs that meet the changing needs of society, including more than 100 bachelor's degree programs and more than 120 graduate and professional degree programs organized in 16 colleges and schools: college of arts and sciences; school of biomedical engineering, science and health systems; bennett s. Lebow college of business; college of computing & informatics; school of education; college of engineering; charles d. Close school of entrepreneurship; pennoni honors college; thomas r. Kline school of law; antoinette westphal college of media arts & design; college of medicine; college of nursing and health professions; richard c. Goodwin college of professional studies; dana and david dornsife school of public health; school of economics; and the graduate school of biomedical sciences and professional studies.most recently, following approval from the middle states commission on higher education (msche) accrediting body, drexel completed the first phase of a merger with salus university that will bring together the complementary strengths of both institutions in graduate health sciences education, research, and clinical practice. The next step of this two-step process is the approval of the u.s. Department of education for completion of the merger that will strengthen drexel's place as a leader in preparing future interprofessional health sciences practitioners by adding renowned salus graduate degree programs such as optometry, audiology, blindness and low vision studies, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and orthotics and prosthetics. In addition, the merger with salus will expand drexel's physician assistant program, graduate enrollment, and promote interdisciplinary research opportunities in new areas. Like drexel, salus has long been an educational pioneer. Its forerunner - the pennsylvania state college of optometry. Drexel's strategic efforts focus on investing further in academic excellence, serving more students while improving the student experience and enhancing the university's global impact. Drexel has grown to become an economic engine for philadelphia, serving as one of the city's largest employers, generating millions of dollars in wage taxes, attracting external funding for research and key real estate development projects, investing in public schools, and supporting important community organizations.drexel's academic enterprise helps strengthen the neighborhoods around its campuses. Drexel has led and supported a number of projects that bring resources to the community. This includes working to bring grants to support local schools and early childhood education in west philadelphia. The university established its digital navigators program in 2021 to provide access to low-cost internet, devices and digital skills training to community members who are lacking access. Drexel is currently renovating the former west philadelphia community center to preserve its longstanding role in serving the local neighborhood with publicly accessible programs and activities. As the united states transitions to an information economy and has dealt with unprecedented challenges brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, many jobs require the critical thinking and innovative problem-solving skills instilled at drexel. For 100 years, drexel has equipped students for the real world through its renowned cooperative education program. Expanding on this model, the university established the drexel solutions institute that has become the new gateway for industry partnerships - connecting drexel's 1,600 co-op employers, as well as other businesses and nonprofits, and linking them to drexel student talent, faculty expertise and world-class resources. Drexel is in the process of a merger with salus university that will see the university welcome more than 1,100 students, 362 faculty and 14,000 alumni to the drexel family. The move will significantly strengthen drexel's national leadership in preparing future interprofessional health sciences practitioners. The merger is expected to be completed in 2025. Drexel has made a strategic commitment to help improve the nation's global competitiveness by increasing students' international engagement to build cultural competencies. Drexel's office of global engagement contributes to the mission of transforming the university into a global hub of academic and professional excellence. It works with units across the university to build an ecosystem of global partnerships and programs both on and off campus through drexel's trademark programs in co-op, education abroad, research partnerships and industry relations.undergraduate enrollment for academic year 2023-2024 = 13,560graduate and professional enrollment for academic year 2023-2024 = 8,143 number of degrees conferred in academic year 2023-2024: associate degrees = 0 bachelor's degrees = 3,040 master's degrees = 2,147 doctoral degrees = 746 certificates and other = 500

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Researchdrexel researchers work across disciplines to increase the world's store of knowledge and translate that new knowledge into solutions with tremendous positive impact on society. Typically, the university receives about $110 million per year in research expenditures. The university is committed to using its research and technological expertise to become an even more powerful economic engine for greater philadelphia, helping to create new high-tech businesses and jobs. Drexel is creating an ecosystem of innovation in and around university city, while delivering on its public purpose as an anchor institution for philadelphia. This ecosystem will ultimately benefit students, through co-ops and career opportunities; faculty, through collaborative research and training; and the surrounding community, through the creation of pipelines to employment.this commitment is at the heart of schuylkill yards, a $3.5 billion mixed-use project with development partner brandywine realty trust on university real estate adjacent to philadelphia's amtrak 30th street station. In partnership with wexford science and technology, drexel is also extending ucity square, a multi-billion-dollar development, through a facility that houses k-8 public schools and an academic building that relocated the college of medicine and college of nursing and health professions to the university city campus.most recently, spark therapeutics broke ground on a $575 million state-of-the-art gene therapy innovation center on drexel's campus. Through a partnership with gattuso development partners, the campus will also boast what is expected to become the city's largest life sciences facility.during fy24, drexel university conducted research on the following research grants:federally sponsored research - 923 grantsstate of pennsylvania sponsored research - 93 grantscity of philadelphia contracts - 22 grantsprivate foundation sponsored research - 323 grantsindustry sponsored research - 92 grants

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Patient care/public serviceit is drexel university's patient care mission to serve the community through the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective health care services, including programs of health promotion and disease prevention. All clinical services are provided with careful regard for the individual patient and their family. Organized as drexel health, the university's clinical practices provide exceptional care in a variety of services including general internal medicine, HIV/AIDS, student health, addiction medicine, psychiatry, eating disorders, and optometry, among others.