Drexel University

Programs: 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. 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 80 bachelor's degree programs and more than 120 graduate and professional degree programs organized in 17 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; graduate college; pennoni honors college; center for sport management; center for food and hospitality management; 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 and dana and david dornsife school of public health. A strategic plan through 2019, "transforming the modern urban university," guides drexel's efforts to invest further in academic excellence, serve more students while improving the student experience and enhance the university's global impact. The plan pays special attention to ensuring that drexel's academic enterprise helps strengthen the neighborhoods around its campuses. Drexel is the lead academic partner in the application and implementation process for the federal promise zone in west philadelphia, one of the first five locations chosen for a white house initiative to direct resources to the nation's most persistently poverty-stricken communities. As the united states transitions to an information economy, many jobs require the critical thinking and problem-solving skills instilled by graduate education. Drexel launched its graduate college in 2015 to better coordinate graduate education at the university and ensure graduate student success. Drexel has made a strategic commitment to help improve the nation's global competitiveness by increasing students' international engagement to build cultural competencies. In recent years, the university has grown the number of study abroad opportunities by more than a quarter and the number of global positions in drexel's signature cooperative education program by a third, while tripling both the programming of the office of international programs and the total number of initiatives at drexel that support cross-cultural education and engagement. Undergraduate enrollment for academic year 2016-2017 = 15,498graduate and professional enrollment for academic year 2016-2017 = 8,692 number of degrees conferred in academic year 2016-2017: associate degrees = 2 bachelor's degrees = 3,735 master's degrees = 2,422 doctoral degrees = 698 certificates and other = 426

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. In 2017, drexel university was recognized by independent economic think tank the milken institute as one of the top 50 universities for commercialization in the united states, or 46th out of 225 institutions. Drexel scored high in terms of actual numbers of inventions and when those numbers were adjusted per research dollars. Typically, the university receives about $110 million per year in research expenditures, but its output rivals that of universities that receive anywhere from three to five times that amount. During the past year alone, the university's accelerator drexel ventures negotiated 24 license and option agreements, including four startups, to advance the commercialization of promising technologies. Drexel researchers reported 119 new inventions, and the university received 52 issued u. S. Patents, an all-time record for the institution. Drexel 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 launched two new accelerator programs in 2015, in collaboration with the state-funded ben franklin technology partners of southeastern pennsylvania and the city of philadelphia, to help grow new businesses in technology and medical devices and therapeutics. These accelerators are among the first building blocks of schuylkill yards, a drexel and brandywine realty trust initiative to drive university city's ascendancy as a global innovation district. Drexel's researchers continue to build partnerships that are critical to creating 21st-century solutions to america's challenges. In april 2016, the u. S. Department of defense tapped drexel as a key leader in the creation of a $75 million national research institute that will support american textile manufacturers in bringing sophisticated new materials and textiles to the marketplace. The institute, called advanced functional fabrics of america, will be a national manufacturing resource center for industry and government to draw on academic expertise in new fibers and textiles. The result will be fabrics engineered to see, hear, sense and communicate; serving an array of industries including aerospace, apparel, architecture and health. During fy17, drexel university conducted research on the following research grants:federally sponsored research - 971 grantsstate of pennsylvania sponsored research - 109 grantscity of philadelphia contracts - 43 grantsprivate foundation sponsored research - 366 grantsindustry sponsored research - 185 grants

patient care/public serviceit is the college'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 such services provided with regard for the individual patient and his or her family. Drexel university's clinical practices lead the way in pioneering treatments and provide exceptional care in the areas of specialty including infectious disease, sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, and women's health.