PENN - An Employer of Choice
Come work at Penn, the nation's first University with a world-renowned reputation. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia's largest private employer, is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities. There are currently over 500 positions available at Penn in a wide variety of fields ranging from Accountants to Box Office Tellers to Dental Assistants to Gardeners to Medical Researchers to IT Specialists to Physicians and more! View our many positions and apply on-line at www.hr.upenn.edu.

Benefits
Penn's benefit program, combined with the exceptional resources of the University, is among the many advantages the University offers to faculty and staff. Penn provides a flexible benefits package which lets you select the medical, dental, life insurance coverages and pre-tax expense accounts that best meet your needs and those of your family. The University provides a generous retirement matching program as well as tuition assistance for you and your family members. Penn offers a diverse, multicultural learning community, widespread use of information technology, generous professional development opportunities and flexible work options.

About Penn
Founded in 1740 as a charity school for Philadelphia children, the University of Pennsylvania is America's first university and one of its foremost institutions of higher education. Located in West Philadelphia, Penn offers its employees the resources of an Ivy League and of a major metropolis rich in history, tradition and culture. Penn is the largest private employer in the city of Philadelphia and the fourth largest in the state. 22,934 people work at Penn, including the faculty. The University of Pennsylvania Health System, which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, employs an additional 8,612 people.

Penn has a history of educational innovation, in keeping with founder Benjamin Franklin's vision of a school whose students would learn "everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental." The nation's first medical school, its first collegiate business school, the first journalism program, the first university teaching hospital and the first modern liberal-arts curriculum were all established here.

In addition to being Philadelphia's largest private employer, Penn is also an integral part of the West Philadelphia community. The University is a key partner in a model university-community-school program that is being emulated nationally. Through the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps, community residents and public-school pupils receive enhanced educational opportunities, and Penn students incorporate real-world research into their academic studies. Penn also participates in a number of other programs designed to preserve the livability and economic health of the community.

Penn's 262-acre campus in West Philadelphia includes a number of notable landmarks, including Houston Hall, the nation's first student union; the University of Pennsylvania Museum, one of the finest archaeology and anthropology museums in the country; and Franklin Field, the oldest collegiate football field still in use and the country's first double-decked college stadium.

FACULTY:
Members of Penn's internationally acclaimed faculty have earned Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and Fulbright Fellowships. Six current faculty members have received MacArthur Fellowships. 21 Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded to Penn faculty since 1990. The student-faculty ratio is 11:1.

SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS:
Arts and Sciences: Departments in top 10 nationwide include anthropology, art history, economics, English, linguistics, music, psychology, religious studies, and Romance languages.

Engineering and Applied Science:
Birthplace of ENIAC, the world's first electronic general-purpose computer, Penn's Engineering School today houses programs in bioengineering, chemical engineering, and materials science that rank in the top 15 nationally.

Medicine:
Top 10 departments in the School of Medicine include dermatology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, pathology and laboratory medicine, pharmacology, physiology, radiology/radiation oncology, rehabilitation medicine, and surgery.

Nursing:
Among the top three nursing schools in the country, and the only Ivy League school to offer bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.

Veterinary Medicine:
One of only two private veterinary schools in the nation and the only vet school in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Penn's Veterinary Hospital has the largest caseload of any veterinary teaching hospital in the country and the School's large-animal facility, New Bolton Center, is a major resource for Pennsylvania's agricultural industry.

Wharton:
The nation's top-ranked business school, Wharton also has what is considered to be the world's best undergraduate business program. Ranked first nationally in finance, real estate, entrepreneurship, finance, insurance/risk management. Departments in top five nationwide: accounting, marketing, non-profit management, quantitative studies, business ethics, global management.

ATHLETICS:
An Ivy League member with 32 men's and women's varsity teams. Penn's Quakers won Ivy League championships during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons in basketball and football, with football undefeated for both seasons (an Ivy record); during the 1995 season in baseball; during the 1992-93 season in men's basketball, men's track and women's field hockey; during the 1990-91 season in women's fencing and men's crew (also national champs).