Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas Jefferson University is a private university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began in 1824 as Jefferson Medical College and in 2017 merged with Philadelphia University, a design and textile school founded in 1884, to form a two-campus institution. Center City holds the medical and health colleges; East Falls holds architecture, design, engineering, and business.

Academic units include Sidney Kimmel Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, the College of Health Professions, the College of Population Health, the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce. Jefferson Health, the affiliated health system, provides hospitals and clinics used in professional training.

Enrollment is about 8,000 students, with a majority in graduate and professional programs in health and design. The faculty is heavily clinical on the Center City campus. Alumni work mainly as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and designers; the medical college has trained practitioners in the Mid-Atlantic since the nineteenth century.

Graduate study is known for the MD, nursing and pharmacy degrees, public-health master's, and professional master's in architecture, design, and business. Clinical programs mix coursework with hospital rotations on a professional calendar. Students move between a dense Center City medical campus and the East Falls campus on the Schuylkill River.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Thomas Jefferson University lists 1 master's program, in environmental design.