1020 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Thomas Jefferson University is located on a 13-acre urban campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1824. The academic health center includes the Jefferson Medical College, the Jefferson College of Graduate Studies, and the Jefferson College of Health Professions. Thomas Jefferson University strives to provide compassionate clinical care, lead the nation with its research, and be a center for clinical trials and patient-oriented research.

Recent extensions to the Philadelphia school's campus include expansions to the emergency and trauma center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Renovations were completed in 1990 and the center is now both the top regional resource and a federally designated spinal cord injury center. New operating rooms opened in 1992, bringing the hospital to a total of 28 operating rooms and 717 beds.

Doctoral programs at Thomas Jefferson University include anatomy, developmental biology, immunology, pharmacology and physiology. Undergraduate programs include nursing, occupational therapy, and medical technology. The Philadelphia school also offers an undergraduate multicompetency program in diagnostic training, which is one of two in the nation.

U.S. News & World Report has ranked Thomas Jefferson University the best comprehensive medical school in the U.S. in recent years. Notable alumni from the Philadelphia school have developed the heart-lung machine, demonstrated the existence of erythropoietin, and made possible the prenatal electrocardiogram.

Quick Facts:

More than 1,200 students enroll at Thomas Jefferson University annually, with more than 375 students enrolled in graduate level courses.

Thomas Jefferson University has more living graduates than any other medical school in the U.S., and has awarded more than 26,000 medical degrees.

Thomas Jefferson University treats 25,000 inpatients and more than 300,000 outpatients annually.

The Philadelphia school has about 4,000 beds available for clinical teaching, with the student-to-bed ratio ranging from 1-to-5 to 1-to-30.

More than 650 full-time university and hospital-based faculty work at Thomas Jefferson University, while another 2,000 non-salaried faculty volunteer their time on campus or in affiliated hospitals.

Each year, Thomas Jefferson University receives more than $64 million in public and private research funding.

In recent years, graduate students from the nursing program at Thomas Jefferson University had a 100 percent pass rate on national certification exams. In 2006, undergraduate students from the nursing program had a 96 percent pass rate on licensing exams.

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