Temple University

Temple University (commonly referred to as Temple) is a absolute state-related analysis university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Abbot Russell Conwell. Temple is classified as a "Doctoral University: Highest Analysis Activity." In 2013, Temple accustomed over $224 actor in analysis funding, baronial it 94th out of 643 institutions in the NSF’s Higher Apprenticeship Analysis and Development Survey.

As of 2014, added than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and able acceptance are enrolled in over 400 bookish amount programs offered at seven campuses and sites in Pennsylvania, and all-embracing campuses in Rome, Tokyo, Singapore and London.Temple is a part of the nation's better providers of able apprenticeship (law, medicine, podiatry, pharmacy, dentistry, and architecture), advancing the better physique of able practitioners in Pennsylvania.

History
Temple University was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell, a Yale-educated Boston lawyer, orator, and advancing Baptist minister, who had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Conwell came to Pennsylvania in 1882 to advance the Grace Baptist Church while he began apprenticeship alive chic citizens backward at night to lath their plan schedules. These students, after dubbed "night owls," were accomplished in the basement of Conwell's Baptist Temple, appropriately the agent of the university's name and mascot. The Grace Baptist Church bound grew accepted aural the North Philadelphia area. A acting lath of advisers was created to handle the rapidly growing formalities associated with the church's programs. When the lath conducted its aboriginal affair they called Russell H. Conwell admiral of "The Temple College." Aural the afterward months, Grace Baptist Church appointed a new lath of trustees, printed official admissions files, and issued banal to accession funds for new teaching facilities. Regardless of whether they had the assets to abutment the school, Conwell’s admiration was “to accord apprenticeship to those who were clumsy to get it through the accepted channels.

Philadelphia accepted a allotment in 1888 to authorize “The Temple Academy of Philadelphia”, but the city-limits banned to admission ascendancy to accolade bookish degrees. By 1888, the acceptance of the academy was about 600. It was in 1907 that Temple Academy revised its institutional cachet and congenital as a university. Legal acceptance as a university added Temple in apparent means including its reputation, able and alum programs, all-embracing enrollment, and banking support.
Over time, Temple expanded: Samaritan Hospital was founded, a Medical Academy was added, and Temple alloyed with the Philadelphia Dental College.[11] After the merger, Temple clearly reincorporated as Temple University on December 12, 1907.

Today, Temple is a Pennsylvania state-related university, acceptation the university receives accompaniment funds, accountable to accompaniment appropriations, but is apart operated.

Academics
Temple University offers added than 400 amount programs at 17 schools and colleges and 5 able schools, including programs in art, business, communications, education, engineering, advanced arts, music, science, and the bloom professions.

In U.S. News & Apple Report's 2016 rankings, Temple is 55th a part of U.S. accessible universities, angry for 115th a part of all civic universities and ranked 356th globally. Temple undergraduate academy is a part of the top colleges profiled in The Princeton Review's The Best 379 colleges (2015). Temple's Arts and Humanities faculty, Social Science and Management faculty, Life Science and Anesthetic adroitness are ranked 182nd, 339th, 350th appropriately in the apple in 2014 by QS Apple University Rankings.Temple's Social Science adroitness is aswell ranked 76-100 in the apple in 2015 by ARWU.Temple is ranked 94th out of 643 US institutions in Civic Science Foundation's 2013 Higher apprenticeship Analysis and Development Survey.

Campuses
Temple University has seven campuses and sites beyond Pennsylvania, additional all-embracing campuses in London, Rome, Spain, and Tokyo.

Temple University Japan
Temple University Japan is a annex campus in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Temple University Japan is the oldest and better campus of any adopted university in Japan, with about 1,000 acceptance in amount programs. Forty percent of the undergraduate acceptance are Japanese, 40% are from United States and 20% are from added than 50 added countries (as of Fall 2012). Non-degree acceptance is about 830 including Bookish English and Continuing Apprenticeship programs.

The campus offers ten undergraduate majors as able-bodied as M.S.Ed., Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, EMBA and LL.M programs. It aswell offers division and year-long abstraction away programs for U.S. undergraduates and law acceptance (the closing is the aboriginal American Bar Association-accredited abstraction away affairs in Asia). In addition, Temple University Japan has non-degree English-language, continuing developed education, and accumulated apprenticeship programs.
After continued negotiations involving the U.S. and Japanese governments, Temple University Japan became the aboriginal accustomed adopted university campus in Japan. As a result, its credits and degrees are accustomed as getting agnate to those of Japanese universities and can sponsor visas for all-embracing students. Acceptance are aswell accustomed Japanese apprentice identification cards and can access apprentice discounts on alternation passes, adaptable buzz contracts, and added items.