Just like our students, the Penn faculty is diverse, talented, caring and passionate about learning. They are Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize-winners. They discover cures for illness, compose Grammy Award-winning music, and advise heads of state. Most importantly for you, they also spend much of their time TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES. In fact, over 95% of College courses were taught by faculty last year, not by graduate students. Our faculty welcome your contributions to lectures, large and small. They hold office hours and work very closely with Penn's talented graduate students to make sure your academic needs are met. (Graduate students will often lead discussion sections of large lectures called recitations.) They encourage undergraduates to participate in research. They advise students and coordinate co-curricular activities. Many of them even live in the College Houses. And you will get to know your professors at Penn. Students in the College took 70% of their courses in classes with 25 or fewer students last year. This includes classroom courses, lectures and seminars. It excludes labs, recitation sections of lectures, independent study courses, and studios among others which all tend to be very small, and artificially lower the average class size. Here are some faculty with whom you may work one day:
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