Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Educ

Programs: Instruction - as a comprehensive state related research university, our 40,000 students can choose from 9 campuses and over 500 academic degree programs including: 2 associate degree programs, 153 bachelors programs, 167 masters programs, 64 doctoral programs and first-professional degree programs in dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine.

patient care - temple university has over 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 $56,917,000.

research - the carnegie foundation has designated temple as a research university-high research activity, including it among the top universities in the nation with comprehensive curricula and nationally recognized research programs. Temple receives research funding from federal, state, and local government sources, as well as foundations and other private sources. Federal funding comes largely from the national institutes of health, with additional support from the departments of defense, education, agriculture, energy, and justice. State funding comes from a number of departments, including aging, education, health, community and economic development, and public welfare.

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