Temple University
public research university in Philadelphia, United States
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Summary
Temple University is a university[1]. It ranks in the top 0.073% of university entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,667 views/month, #6 of 8,192).[2]
Key Facts
- Member of: ORCID, Inc.[3], Digital Library Federation[4], Association of Research Libraries[5], Shibboleth Consortium[6], DataCite[7], Association of American Colleges and Universities[8], American Council on Education[9], National Humanities Alliance[10], Open Education Network[11], Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship[12], Coalition for Networked Information[13], Association of Public and Land-grant Universities[14], Center for Research Libraries[15], Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition[16]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Philadelphia[17]
- Country: United States[18]
- Instance of: public educational institution of the United States[19], collection[20]
- Founder: Russell Conwell[21]
- Postal code: 19122-6096[22]
- Child organization or unit: Temple University Ambler[23]
- Commons category: Temple University[24]
- Inception: 1884[25]
- Located on street: Broad Street[26]
- Official website: https://www.temple.edu/[27]
- Topic's main category: Category:Temple University[28]
- Web feed URL: https://www.temple.edu/rss.xml[29]
- Employees: 8779[30]
- Topic has template: Template:Temple University[31]
- Official name: Temple University[32]
- Legal form: Nonprofit Corporation[33]
- Native label: Temple University[34]
- Category of associated people: Category:Temple University people[35]
- Count of students: 37,367[36], 32,537[37]
- Total assets: 5,453,339,000 US dollars[38]
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: doctoral universities: very high research activity[39], high undergraduate[40], research doctoral: comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school[41], four-year, large, primarily nonresidential[42], four-year, full-time, more selective, higher transfer-in[43], professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence[44]
- Language used: English[45]
Why It Matters
Temple University has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]