Temple University, located in Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania on the east coast of the United States, was founded in 1884 and is a famous public university with a history of over 130 years. Philadelphia, also known as the "City of Friendship", is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States, next to new york, LA and Chicago. Temple University has been committed to implementing the concept of equal education. Known as one of the three famous universities in Philadelphia and one of the three public universities in Pennsylvania. In terms of university scale, Temple University is the 36th largest higher education institution in the United States, with about 39,000 students distributed in 17 colleges of the university, including business school, law school, medical school, pharmacy school and dental school. The school has 134 undergraduate majors, 12 1 master majors and 56 doctoral majors. According to the latest Carnegie ranking (RU-VHR) of American research universities in 20 16, Temple University ranks among the top research universities in the United States 108 (2% of the top research universities in the United States), and is rated as 1 15 in the comprehensive ranking of American universities in American News. It is a first-class national university, in which Taylor Art has 1 1 majors in the top ten in the United States, four majors in the top 20 in the United States, and dozens of majors in the top 100.