Temple is an urban school integrated into the city of Philadelphia. Like GW and Drexel, a person may be walking through part of the college campus and not even know it since it blends in so well with the surrounding city. Temple is also a large university with over 24,000 students. The university maintains 8 campuses worldwide including the main campus (on Broad St), Ambler (a more rural setting and shuttle bus ride away), the Health Sciences campus (5 minutes away from main campus), Temple University Center City, the Tyler School of Art (adjacent to the main campus) and lastly international locations in Tokyo and Rome.
Temple has the same strengths and challenges as many large universities. The school offers a broad range of classes and majors with 12 schools offering different academic programs. Temple is known for their theater and opera programs. There is also a huge range in class size, 5 - over 200. Because of this students can get lost in the shuffle. This puts the responsibility on the student to work hard and be recognized.
Since Temple is integrated into the city, it is not surprising that the city places a dominant role in student life. There is also 34 Greek organizations and 35 club and intramural sports. Like a city, the school is also very diverse along almost any continuum you can think of. The one area it may not be diverse in is geographically. A huge portion of students hail from the Philadelphia area. Lastly, important to note is that 1/2 the student body are commuters and 1/2 live in and around campus. After sophomore year, you are not longer able to live in the dorms.
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