Jeffrey Hrkach

Carnegie Mellon University challenges the curious and passionate to imagine and deliver work that matters. A private, global research university, Carnegie Mellon stands among the world's most renowned educational institutions, and sets its own course.With cutting-edge brain science, path-breaking performances, innovative start-ups, driverless cars, big data, big ambitions, Nobel and Turing prizes, hands-on learning, and a whole lot of robots, CMU doesn't imagine the future, they create it.

Philadelphia University was founded in 1884 as the Philadelphia Textile School in the wake of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. A group of textile manufacturers, led by Theodore Search, noticed a sizeable gap between the quality and variety of American textile products and those displayed by European mills. To address this, the group established the School to educate America’s textile workers and managers. Several years later, the School affiliated with the Pennsylvania Museum (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art) and School of Industrial Art. By 1949, PTI, which was no longer affiliated with the museum, began conducting classes at its present site in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. Throughout the 1950s, it continued to grow, and, in 1961, changed its name to Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science. The Board of Trustees voted to change the School’s name to Philadelphia University on July 13, 1999.

University of the Sciences, are building on a life sciences legacy started almost two centuries ago as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. From treating, researching and studying diseases and cures on a molecular level to the medicines that improve the lives of people worldwide, USciences is about moving life forward. The University has launched the careers of many innovative and pioneering individuals in the field of healthcare. The University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.