Global Engagement Across Penn Penn's Global Campus
Penn's campus is a vibrant reflection of the University's global community and reach, with over 6,000 international students enrolled at Penn annually, 2,500 students studying abroad, 1,400 faculty reporting activities across all seven continents, and 600 partnerships with institutions around the world.
The World at Penn
The University of Pennsylvania is more global now than at any point in its nearly 300-year history. From Philadelphia and Washington, DC, to Beijing and Delhi, Penn's campus spans the world and is home to 12 premier schools with a global reach and over 60 University and School centers with a global focus. Together, Penn's schools and centers cultivate a thriving global community who advance the University's outreach and impact worldwide.
Global Engagement at Penn's Schools
The University of Pennsylvania is home to twelve schools dedicated to advancing Penn as premier global institution. Penn's schools strengthen the University’s commitment to meaningful global engagement through a wide array of academic programs, research projects, institutional partnerships, and other initiatives.
Penn Centers & Programs with a Global Focus
At Penn, over 60 centers and institutes conduct research and organize activities with a global focus. Collectively, they demonstrate the three-fold commitments of Penn’s Strategic Framework for Global Initiatives, 2018-2023 to educate global citizens, catalyze transformative ideas, and bring the world to Penn and Penn to the world. Their path-breaking interdisciplinary work crosses Schools and traditional disciplines to bring new research, ideas, and perspectives to global education worldwide.
Global Engagement at Penn's Schools
The University of Pennsylvania is home to twelve schools dedicated to advancing Penn as premier global institution. Penn's schools strengthen the University’s commitment to meaningful global engagement through a wide array of academic programs, research projects, institutional partnerships, and other initiatives.
Penn Centers & Programs with a Global Focus
At Penn, over 60 centers and institutes conduct research and organize activities with a global focus. Collectively, they demonstrate the three-fold commitments of Penn’s Strategic Framework for Global Initiatives, 2018-2023 to educate global citizens, catalyze transformative ideas, and bring the world to Penn and Penn to the world. Their path-breaking interdisciplinary work crosses Schools and traditional disciplines to bring new research, ideas, and perspectives to global education worldwide.
Penn's Global Centers
Among's Penn's dozens of global centers, Perry World House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy & Global Engagement (Washington, DC), Penn Wharton China Center (Beijing, China) and University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (Delhi, India) are prime examples of the numerous centers strategically positioned to advance Penn's global outreach and impact.
Perry World House is Penn's on-campus hub for global policy engagement. Perry World House draws on the wide range of expertise found across Penn and connects Penn with policymakers, practitioners, and researchers from around the world to share knowledge and generate innovative policy solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges.
Penn Washington is a physical and programmatic home for the University of Pennsylvania in the nation’s capital. Its priorities are to strengthen ties between federal and global policymakers and the Penn academic community, promote opportunities for Penn scholarship to impact policy, expand DC-focused educational and academic programs, and reinforce the essential contributions that Penn can make to the structure and function of democracy and global affairs.
The establishment of the Penn Wharton China Center (PWCC) represents a substantial commitment to advance the long history of engagement with China by the Wharton School and Penn in an increasingly interconnected global environment. PWCC provides on-the-ground support for the growing numbers of programs and collaborations between Penn’s 12 schools and many academic, government, and business partners throughout China.
The University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI) is the Delhi-based counterpart to the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). UPIASI aims to facilitate research that fosters a greater understanding of problems facing contemporary India and acts as a catalyst to stimulate exchange of knowledge and best practices for the mutual benefit of American and Indian scholars.
