This University has a dummy of a President who fails to respond to criticisms of faculty.

In the School of Medicine- Psychiatry- for example- their is a faculty member who was fired from the University of Connecticut- and was hired by Temple- this person is inept, and incompetent- besides being an emotional predator.

I attended Temple from 2003-2007. I had a dual major in International Business and Marketing and did quite well. I was very happy that the Fox School of Business and their International Bus program found themselves within the top 15 in the nation (for that program) while I was there. I was from an upper-middle class family background and loved Temple. Not the greatest surrounding areas, but not a problem. I had no worries running on Broad St. at night, even up to Temple Hospital. Temple University has the 2nd or 3rd largest police force in the State of Pennsylvania. What more could you want? I was never "jumped", never felt like my life was in danger, or anything of the sort. They have security guards in most buildings . . . what more do you want? Anything else and the tuition would be astronomical. This University allows you to make your Undergrad what you want of it. I had the opportunity to play two D1 sports, was in a fraternity, studied abroad, and had the opportunity to do plenty of community service. I met great contacts at this school, and built a great reputation with my fellow classmates. If you can't find a job, you passed up great opportunities throughout college for "resume building." Also, I would recommend working on your networking skills. This sounds like empty rhetoric advice, but I'll give you something useful right now: join the alumni board and network there for jobs. You never know who you'll meet. Also, don't blame TU if you don't have a job . . . it's a rough job market for all kids graduating college (unless you're graduating from a top 20 school).

I`m a Freshman here at Temple and I live in the Philadelphia area. First, I want to clear up some misconceptions; Temple IS in "the hood" but a LOT of Universities are. Some are just gated. The university is in a WELL LIT area, and if you don`t stray too far off campus without people with you, you`ll be just fine. Why would you want to venture into an area that you aren`t accustomed to alone anyway?! Temple is in the heart of the city, you can walk to center city, and you will always have something to do. People say that the faculty doesn`t care; that`s also untrue. Listen: IF YOU GO TO A BIG COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, SOME PEOPLE WILL BE LESS SENSITIVE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY STUDENTS. It`s just a catch all. I don`t care where you go, you WILL have that problem at a huge school. Temple has over 30,000 students, if you`re looking for someone to hold your hand, you will NOT find it. My advice to you is always to get second, third and fourth opinions. With academic advisors or ANYONE. You will find people that are interested and that care about your future. If you`re smart, take honors classes and stop complaining about the coursework. So many people say the grades are too easy in some and hard in others. Different professors have different teaching styles, some which may be simpler to you, and some not. Take it as an easy A and chalk it up. As far as the sports, they suck. I hope that`s not why you`re coming here. But it`s a solid school, and the name is weighted heavily in the city, tristate area and other places, ESPECIALLY if you`re in a great department. Fox School of Business has just been ranked as one of the best in the country, too, to amend what someone else said. I see the banner in Fox every time I go to class. And about the people speaking "ebonics", who DOESN`T speak slang? Come on, grow up. If you want to be around preppy "omifreakinggod" people, go to UPenn. Drexel and Lasalle have NOTHING on us. It is what you make it. I notice a lot of people who don`t like the school don`t have great social lives. That`s your problem. Any school is what you make it, to be honest.

I currently attend UPenn. And I'm transferring to Temple in the Spring. And it isn't cause I can't hack it at Penn. I just hate it at Penn. It is overrated and full of snobby suburbanites and socially inept nerds. It is Ivy League, and if you want that, then go for it.

But you will get the same if not a better education at Temple, especially if you are a part of the Honors Program. You will be appreciated far more, and will get to take top notch classes with great professors. Everyone I've talked to at Temple is super-friendly and down-to-earth, something you certainly won't find at Penn. People are only concerned with grades and getting drunk. They have no lives and almost no ambition because they have daddy's money to rely on in the future.

If you're from the city (like myself) you can handle any neighborhood. Penn's isn't much better than Temple. It's really just about the fit of the school for you, not the name. Forget the Ivy League name--it's not that great, trust me. You'll like it though if you can handle the preppy "ohmygod" mentality.

Overall, I think Temple is the smarter choice. I didn't think so at first because I came to Penn, but honestly, it really is. It's way cheaper too, especially if you're in-state. 

I attend Temple University as a 3rd year Undergrad and would not go anywhere else in the world. Having applied to 21 other schools ranging from Rochester, Washington U, U of Alabama Birmingham, St. Louis U, Virginia Commonwealth U, Lehigh, Duke etc., I consider myself an academic "catch" (yes, I got in everywhere except for my #1 Duke). All it took was a single campus tour on a beautiful spring afternoon to prove that I could not imagine learning elsewhere. With tuition rising and admissions becoming increasingly selective, TU has found more ways to funnel back the profit into campus and the student body. Princeton Review rated TU #1 diverse campus in the nation. it proves to the rest of the country that a little foliage in a SAFE section of north Philly can go a long way. Check out some of our rankings before you decide to believe these negative reviews about TU. And for those of you who can't find jobs after graduation, it may be because of your academic choices rather than the fact that our University's name is on your degree. Should anyone reading this website have any questions about TU in general, feel free to contact me via email at TUA48938@temple.edu :)

I don't have personal experience there however...my father's medical degree came from Temple and I may be prejudice, but he was a fine Doctor!

my opinion

I just graduated from the Fox School of Business January, 2008 and it took me about a month to discover that going to Temple was a mistake. The women running the Career Development office are incompetent in terms of helping students begin their careers. In my personal experience, they are interested almost exclusively in making fun of people who say "like" and "um" too much in interviews, making fun of girls who wear too much makeup to interviews, and peddling thier mediocre at best resume format. The main problem here is that they are either unable or perhaps uninterested in helping students find jobs after graduating. I graduated with a 3.7 from the Honors Program with a degree in International Business and Marketing, had 3 internships, and am still unemployed as of April, 2008. While I have been offered a few positions through jobs I applied to on FoxNet, the starting salaries have been between $30,00 and $32.000 per year and the work is basically data entry or secretarial. From the reading I've done, the national average for Marketing graduates is 40,000. Take this for what you will, but if you're footing the college bill yourself, I would advise going elsewhere for your education if you aspire to make enough money after graduating to pay off your student loans. In a word, going to temple was a MISTAKE.

WELL DAMN I WAS REALLY THINKING ABOUT GOING THERE, I MEAN THAT WAS MY FIRST CHOICE. I ALWAYS KNOW ABOUT THE BAD AREA,BUT DAMN

This is a pathetic public school. It is ranked as a Tier 3 school by US News and the business school is ranked a pathetic #77. Compare that to Penn State -University Park which is a Tier 1 school and has a business school ranked #18. Students coming out of here do not get decent jobs. The athletic teams are also horrible. People outside of the northeast do not know what Temple is. The school is also in a very dangerous part of Philadelphia. The other reviewers on here who said to choose Temple over UPenn are crazy. UPenn is ivy league and one of the most prestigious schools in the world. If you are a below average student who wants to get a below average job when you graduate then go here!

if you're from Philadelphia, are a first generation college attendee, come from a working class or middle to lower class family or a minority , then Temple is a good place for you. Temple is a pretty good school with some depts. that are stronger than others. It's very much a commuter school and is not what you'd typically think of when you envision college and college life. Temple's in the ghetto. Literally one block away from the school on all sides. It's a very big school that has been building new facilities around the main campus. Temple is good if you plan to work and live in philadelphia. There are tons of alums working in Philly and the school name carries a lot of weight in the area. Temple has a wide range of departments so you can pretty much study whatever you want. One thing about the students is that some dont look or act like ....for lack of a better term college material. I've been on the campus a number of times and I swear, you'd think Ebonics a was a second language.

I've just finished my last semester here at the Fox School of Business. Quality of teaching varies from absurdly easy (A grades given WAY too often) to mediocre to quite good. Only one of my professors was truly excellent and he was fired (go figure). Many profs view teaching as a burden and it shows (showing up late, cancelling classes, etc). It is in the ghetto and I actually started taking more classes at Ambler campus because it was depressing being in the ghetto. I actually liked the professors more than most of the students--generally either dumb/apathetic or really arrogant. Very few truly nice and considerate students in my opinion.

I received my BS in Electrical Engineering from Temple is 1986 and received six job offers before my final semester began. My Temple education has provided me and my family with a very comfortable living. Thank you Temple!

I attended Temple U from 1991 to 1997. I was in the Bachelor of Architecture program when it was still on the main campus. I lived on campus in a dorm the whole time I was there, except for my last year I had an apartment, but it was still on campus. As for Philadelphia, parts can be nice and fun to go to.. but Temple was in the middle of a ghetto. Gun shots in the middle of the night were common, and you didn't dare walk off campus alone at night. It was very dangerous. I was jumped by muggers 3 different times walking to the architecture building on the edge of campus (once in broad daylight). The constant asking of spare change by locals got annoying REALLY fast. As for the education, it was average. Temple isn't anything spectacular or awesome. The instructors were ok for the most part. You were lucky if your instructor DIDN'T have some sort of foreign accent you couldn't understand. Security in the buildings was a joke, or non-existant in the first place. Quick true story: My fiancee (at the time) had a security guard actually punch her in the face (on the nose like the guard was trying to ram the bone up into her brain) because my fiancee wouldn't show her ID to the guard (who DIDN'T have any uniform on and looked like she was an 18 year old student). After the incident and an investigation, Temple Police found out that the female guard had lied on her application, gave a false address, and had disappeared. What the #%@&?? Shows you what kind of people Temple hires and screens... pitiful. The workers in the dorm cafeterias are rude and obnoxious, barely finished high school, and are usually racist. Actually, a large part of Temple is racist. Secretaries and administrative personnel are the same way. One has to wonder where Temple finds these people. Granted, there are some nice and competent workers and teachers, but they make up maybe 1% of the Temple employees who are worth the air they breathe and the paychecks they receive. Campus life sucked. Not a whole lot to do on campus, since about 95% of the students live off campus. Luckily for me, I spent most of my time in the architecture studio drawing and building models, so it didn't matter to me anyway. But for other people, i know they were bored. Groups of people would go downtown or somewhere. Anyway, there's tons more I could go off on... but you get the idea. I was accepted to other schools, but Temple was cheaper because I was in-state and it wasn't to far away from my house. I've modified Temple's motto to reflect reality for me. Temple's motto is I could have gone anywhere, but I chose Temple (or something like that)... My new motto for it is I could have gone anywhere, but I could afford Temple ... sad, but true. My advice to those who are considering Temple: find a safer, nicer, friendlier school somewhere else. My experiences were mostly bad or disappointing there. Don't attend an average school in a dangerous area like Temple. You can do better. You owe it to yourself to actually enjoy those 4 or 5 years in college, not hate every day there. That's all I will say. Good luck.

i am in my 4th year here at Temple. i have to take a 5th year, just like many here (it's not really that common to graduate in 4 years here anymore). i really don't like temple at all. most of the people who work here are rude and disrespectful. some of the people who work as secretaries and receptionists can't even speak proper english... and i don't mean because english isn't their first language, i mean because they are poorly educated. i dont know where Temple gets some of these people from. it seems they would want to make a good impression on their educational institution by having employees with an education. also, i live off campus and i try to avoid campus as much as possible because the people are just not nice. well, a lot of people live off campus actually, especially now since ONLY freshman get housing! after your freshman year, plan on getting an expensive apt. in a horrible neighborhood. its very dangerous around here... very. also, in my 4 years, i think i have had a total of no more than 5 teachers whom i would consider to be good. Again, i don't know where they get some of these people from. Temple always seems to try to make everything difficult. And in my major, there are 3 advisors for over 2,000 people. so if you want an appointment with an advisor, plan on making it wayyy in advance. i guess the good thing is that in general, Temple has a good name as a university, so hopefully it will look good on my resume.

I attended Temple from 1978 - 1983. I found it to be a great experience. Being a Philadelphian, I liked the idea of staying in the city. I was a commuter and can attest that back then campus life was kind of flat (dry campus back then). The neighborhood was quite beaten down back then, but I never experienced a single incident of crime. I used to have more problems dealing with drunken schlubs around the Penn Campus and the Great Northeast. I had a knife pulled out on me in cosmo center city, so who knows (disarmed him too -- I was stupid drunk at the time). Temple is a big-league campus, a leader in academics witha a med school, law school, dental school, and its own hospital. The professors (I was a biology major) were talented and cared about the students. Quality of opposite sex was fair. I met some nice women there, but as I said before, the campus life was marginal back then. A real plus was that Temple had great intercollegiate and Intramural Programs. Even though I didn't have a scholarship, I participated on the rowing team for 4 years and was a member of the school's College Bowl team, which was one of the best in the country. From what I have seen in recent years is the campus is much prettier now. For the $100-200K you could pay for 4 years at Penn, you can get just as good an education at Temple, for a magnitude less. Go Owls!!!

I do a lot of research on Universities and have been to Temple and the surrounding area is very poor but Temple University is one of the best schools in the country rankings wise and does not get as much credit as it should. It's selectivity ratings for undergraduate and especially graduate programs are high and it is a city school and like all city schools is surrounded by poverty stricken areas. Regardless, the campus is amazing, possibly better then UPENN's and is more appealing than other city schools and the academics at Temple are ranked high in the country.

Let me first state that I am a current graduate student at Temple and an Instructor. While other postings on this site have correctly indicated the outstanding academic integrity of Temple, I believe they are remiss on the environment of the school. Full and Associate professors view their job of teaching as a burden. On numerous occasions I have students tell me that their professors do NOT care about them and I can verify that by the general attitude of the graduate professors in several departments. “Students get in the way of research” is a common mantra I hear. Added to all of this the administration is a sea of red tape; the campus is in the heart of North Philadelphia which happens to be one of the more crime ridden areas of Philadelphia. In addition, there is a lack of community for students. Therefore, if a collegiate environment is what you require - do not come to Temple University.

It's in a bad area. . .but there is something democratic about an affordable university that gives poor kids a chance at a better life. Academics are uneven at best.

Pullleeese! The campus is in a blighted area, Philadelphia has a horrible minorities/human relations record and the football team has just been kicked out of the Big East!

Philadelphia is the most liveable of America's largest cities, and Temple University is the only major research university that's state-related in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. It is a "Carnegie I" category university - the highest rating - and its faculty is first-rate as well. Even Freshmen can arrange to have classes with senior professors. However, the place is very large, and spread over several campuses (including campuses in Rome, Italy and Tokyo, Japan).

With the possible exception of Columbia, Temple is the greatest urban university in the US. Its particular strengths are in the arts and music, psychology, and the professional schools (Law, Medicine, etc.).

One of the best comprehensive urban research universities in North America, with a great hospital as well.

Temple is located in a really, really rough part of Philadelphia, and while it is possible to get a decent education there, the danger factor and lack of a campus environment makes this school a poor choice.

Has the worst campus alive, academics are bad and their basketball team is always overrated.