Rankings and Achievements

Enrollment

• 21,153 total students
• 13,282 undergraduate students
• 7,871 graduate and professional students
• 3,351 online students

Admissions

Academic Offerings

• Over 200 degree programs
• 15 colleges and schools

Drexel Catalog

Drexel Co-op

• Founded in 1919, Drexel's cooperative education program was one of the first of its kind, and it continues to be among the largest and most renowned.
• Drexel Co-op provides professional employment experiences for students, giving them the opportunity to test-drive a career before they enter the workforce or giving graduate students the opportunity to advance their career.
• Students obtain positions with major corporations such as Amazon, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Comcast Corporation, Exelon Corporation, Google, Lockheed Martin, Susquehanna International Group LLC, and Vanguard Group.

Drexel Co-op

Research

• Awarded the designation of "R1 Doctoral University — Very High Research Activity" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions (2019), out of 39 private higher education institutions.
• Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership program, recognizing leadership in bringing new technologies to market
• Disclosed 49 total new inventions and received 34 new United States patents in fiscal year 2024

Research & Innovation

Technology Leadership

• First university to require all entering students to have microcomputers (1983)
• First major university to operate a fully wireless campus, indoors and out (2000)
• First mobile Web portal service for students (2002)
• First university portal app (DrexelOne Mobile) offered across all five major mobile platforms (2011)

Information Technology

Drexel Online Education

• Provides Drexel degree programs through innovative, Internet-based universally accessible education
• Builds on the University's pioneering efforts in online education, which began in 1996

Drexel Online Education