Description Located in the heart of The City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia University offers undergraduate and graduate degrees from its six schools which include architecture, business administration, design and media, engineering and textiles, liberal arts, and science and health. The school also offers several accelerated degree programs in several disciplines, including business and the health sciences, aimed primarily at adult learners. The school has an enrollment of approximately 2,500 students with a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1. Founded by a group of textile manufacturers in 1884 as the Philadelphia Textile School, the school changed its name several times before receiving university status in 1999.
Philadelphia University has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Philadelphia University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 83% of employees would recommend working at Philadelphia University to a friend. This is based on 51 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
60% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Philadelphia University as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Philadelphia University.