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Drexel’s 2025 merger with Salus University, now known as Drexel University, Elkins Park Campus, forged a powerful and complementary alliance in health care education that opens exciting avenues for collaborative research in eyesight, hearing, speech care, orthotics, prosthetics and occupational therapy..

Founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Drexel is a comprehensive urban university of 25,000 students with one of the country’s most established co-operative education programs.

Drexel is a leader in experiential, technology-infused education and cross-disciplinary research. The University’s recognized excellence in translational research is supported by the Coulter Foundation through the Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership Program and by $167.8 million in obligated research last year. In 2024, Drexel reported 33 U.S. patents, $776,000 in net income and 14 license agreements.

Drexel also has some of the richest specimen and artifact collections in the world through the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, America’s oldest natural history museum. In partnership with Tower Health, Drexel medical students train at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and at a new state-of-the-art facility in West Reading, Pennsylvania.

Drexel advances its culture of innovation by encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship — an approach exemplified by the ExCITe Center, the interdisciplinary A.J. Drexel Institutes, Drexel Applied Innovation, the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship and the Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship.

In summer 2027, the University will complete a multi-year transformation to streamline its curricular structure, define undergraduate student competencies and convert the academic calendar to semesters — a student-first effort aimed at creating a more flexible and fulfilling academic experience, with greater opportunities for the hands-on, experiential learning that sets Drexel apart. These changes will open new doors for research and academic collaborations with partners around the world.

Drexel operates out of a 123-acre University City Campus in West Philadelphia and through six locations: the Center City Campus including the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the West Reading Campus and Queen Lane Campus in East Falls for the College of Medicine, the Malvern Campus for the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business, an online platform, and at its new Elkins Park Campus.