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Education

Education in Philadelphia is provided by many private and public institutions. The School District of Philadelphia runs the city's public schools. The Philadelphia School District is the eighth largest school district in the United States with 163,064 students in 347 public and charter schools.

Philadelphia has the second-largest student concentration on the East Coast, with over 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area. There are over 80 colleges, universities, trade, and specialty schools in the Philadelphia region. The city contains three major research universities: the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and Temple University; and the city is home to five schools of medicine: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Other institutions of higher learning within the city's borders include:

  • Saint Joseph's University
  • La Salle University
  • Peirce College
  • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
  • The University of the Arts
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
  • Curtis Institute of Music
  • Thomas Jefferson University
  • Moore College of Art and Design
  • The Art Institute of Philadelphia
  • The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College
  • Philadelphia University
  • Chestnut Hill College
  • Holy Family University
  • Community College of Philadelphia
  • Messiah College Philadelphia Campus.

The Philadelphia Suburbs, especially those along the Main Line, are home to a number of other colleges and universities, including Villanova University, Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Cabrini College, and Eastern University.

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