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===Higher education=== {{See also|List of colleges and universities in Philadelphia}} [[File:Penn campus 2.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Pennsylvania]], an [[Ivy League]] university in Philadelphia founded in 1749 by [[Benjamin Franklin]] and one of the world's highest-ranked universities]] [[File:Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|The [[Wharton School]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in Philadelphia, one of the world's most prestigious business schools]] Medical and research facilities of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the [[Children's Hospital of Philadelphia]]. Philadelphia has the third-largest student concentration on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]], with more than 120,000 college and university students enrolled within the city and nearly 300,000 in the metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/08/americas-leading-college-towns/3054/ |title=America's Leading College Towns |publisher=The Atlantic: City Lab |date=August 27, 2012 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Florida, Richard |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |archive-date=May 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512235409/http://www.citylab.com/design/2012/08/americas-leading-college-towns/3054/ |url-status=live }}</ref> More than 80 colleges, universities, trade, and specialty schools are in the Philadelphia region. One of the founding members of the [[Association of American Universities]] is in the city, the [[University of Pennsylvania]], an [[Ivy League]] institution with claims to be the [[first university in the United States]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brownlee |first1=David B. |last2=Thomas |first2=George E. |title=Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania |date=2000 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=0812235150 }}</ref> The city's largest university by student enrollment is [[Temple University]], followed by [[Drexel University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/sharon-oliver/2011/10/the-phila-areas-biggest-colleges.html |title=The Phila. area's biggest colleges |publisher=Philadelphia Business Journal |date=October 21, 2011 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |author=Oliver, Sharon |archive-date=May 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530021503/http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/sharon-oliver/2011/10/the-phila-areas-biggest-colleges.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The city's nationally ranked research universities comprise the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and [[Thomas Jefferson University]]. Philadelphia is also home to five schools of medicine: [[Drexel University College of Medicine]], [[Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania]], [[Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine]], [[Temple University School of Medicine]], and Thomas Jefferson University's [[Thomas Jefferson University|Sidney Kimmel Medical College]]. Hospitals, universities, and higher education research institutions in Philadelphia's four congressional districts received more than $252 million in [[National Institutes of Health]] grants in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2015&state=PA&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=PA1,PA2,PA8,PA13&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=statedetail# |title=NIH Awards by Location & Organization |date=April 20, 2015 |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-date=June 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619085721/http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=&fy=2015&state=PA&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=PA1,PA2,PA8,PA13&rfa=&om=n&pid=&view=statedetail |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other institutions of higher learning within the city's borders include: {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Chestnut Hill College]] * [[Community College of Philadelphia]] * [[Curtis Institute of Music]] * [[Holy Family University]] * [[La Salle University]] * [[Moore College of Art and Design]] * [[Peirce College]] * [[Saint Joseph's University]] * [[The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College]] {{div col end}}
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