Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, it was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936, before assuming its current name in 1970. As of 2020, more than 24,000 students were enrolled in over 70 undergraduate programs and more than 100 master's, doctoral, and professional programs at the university.
Statue of Anthony J. Drexel by Moses J. Ezekiel, which was completed in 1904 and moved to the Drexel campus in 1966
The Main Building, dedicated in 1891
The interior of Drexel University's Main Building as seen in 2023
Monumental conical pendulum clock by Eugène Farcot and sculpture by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, which was donated to the university in 1912
Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr. was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War. As the dominant partner of Drexel & Co. of Philadelphia, he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co, which later became J.P. Morgan & Co., in New York City in 1871 with J. P. Morgan as his junior partner. He also founded Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1891.
Anthony Joseph Drexel
Drexel's statue at Drexel University in Philadelphia
Historical marker commemorating Drexel in Old City, Philadelphia.
