Penn Alumni

Seeking to engage all Penn alumni in a mutually beneficial, lifelong connection to each other, their school, and the University, and encourage alumni support and guidance to advance Penn’s eminence for future generations. Penn Alumni is the formal name for our family of over 290,000 living Penn graduates. Of these, the split of undergraduate degree (52.5%) and graduate degree holders (47.5%) is fairly even. Most alumni reside in the U.S., but Penn does have over 23,000 alumni living abroad. Not surprisingly, the largest geographic concentration of our alumni is in the greater Philadelphia area with over 67,000. The metro NY area has over 46,000 alumni in residence, and Baltimore/ Washington has about 13,000 supporters of the Red and Blue. Boston and San Francisco hold the number four and five spots for most alumni with 10,100 and 9,500, respectively. In 1895 the various alumni organizations at Penn (the clubs, the class, and the school societies, then known as departmental societies) joined together in a federation they named the “General Alumni Society,” which was renamed the “University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society” in 1998 and then branded as Penn Alumni in 2003. The objects and purposes of Penn Alumni are to promote the interest and welfare of the University of Pennsylvania and its alumni; to inspire, develop and maintain the interest of the alumni in the University; to help alumni keep alive the friendships, associations and interests they formed as students at Pennsylvania; to foster giving to the University; to maintain close cooperation among alumni, officers and Trustees of the University and to establish a medium through which the alumni may support and advance the cause of higher education by the University; all of the foregoing to be consistent with the policies established by the Trustees of the University.