Press and Radio
Main article: WKDU
WKDU is Drexel's student-run FM radio station, with membership open to all undergraduate students. Its status as an 800-watt non-commercial station in a major market city has given it a wider audience and a higher profile than many other college radio stations.
DUTV is Drexel's Philadelphia cable television station. The student operated station is part of the Paul F. Harron Studios at Drexel University.
Main article: Drexel University Publications
Drexel has a number of publications to its name by both the student body and the university. The Triangle has been the university's newspaper for over 80 years. Other publications include the campus yearbook, the Lexerd; D&M Magazine, a magazine produced by Design & Merchandising students, Maya, the undergraduate student literary and artistic magazine; and The Smart Set, the digital magazine.
Housing
Drexel requires all non-commuting freshmen to live in one of the seven residence halls. Kelly Hall, Myers Hall, Towers Hall, and Calhoun Hall are traditional dormitories, while North Hall, Anthony Caneris Hall, the new Race Street Dormitory, and Van Rensselaer Hall are arranged into suites of four to six residents. Portions of the new Race Street Dormitory are currently reserved for students of the Pennoni Honors College. However, during the 2007 spring term, the Race Street Dormitory housed Kelly Hall residents, while Kelly Hall underwent renovation. All dormitories except Anthony Caneris Hall are located on the north side of campus, north of Arch Street, in the Powelton Village area.
For upperclassmen: Anthony Caneris Hall, North Hall, and floors two through six of University Crossings are the only on-campus housing available. In recent years, the expanding freshman class has pushed most upperclass students out of on-campus housing. Most students find apartments within Powelton Village. Academic Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Drexel, offers apartments, and there are also non-Drexel-owned apartments in the upper floors of the University Crossings building, which was previously owned by Conrail and used as an office building.
2.Rankings
Drexel has been ranked among the "Best National Universities-Top Schools" by U.S. News & World Report in its annual "America's Best Colleges". The 2008 rankings placed Drexel 108th,whereas 2006 rankings had the school at 109th.Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania are the only Philadelphia colleges in this category. In the 2006 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Drexel University is ranked the #109 university in the National Universities Doctoral category and the LeBow College of Business is ranked #99. The publication also ranked Drexel's College of Engineering's undergraduate program 57th among engineering schools that award doctoral degrees.In 2007, Business Week ranked the undergraduate business program among the top 30 private institutions in the country. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering was ranked 10th in the US in faculty scholarly productivity in 2006.
Drexel frequently ranks among the top 25 schools in the nation for technology use according to The Princeton Review and The Intel Corporation, and was ranked first for wireless access by Yahoo!. The Drexel College of Medicine and College of Nursing & Health Professions also share accolades. The Physician's assistant program is in the nation's top 50, the CRNA program in the top 25.
Not all of its rankings are positive, however. The Princeton Review ranked Drexel 2nd for "Campus Is Tiny, Unsightly, or Both," 12th for "Professors Make Themselves Scarce," 7th for "Long Lines and Red Tape," 14th for "Least Happy Students," and 15th for "Professors Get Low Marks".
The Math Forum@Drexel has been selected as one of the most useful websites by PC Magazine and Scientific American.
The university's endowment has grown to $640 million and is the 16th largest private university in the U.S., with an enrollment of over 20,000 students.
Drexel is the third largest private engineering college in the nation.
Drexel participates in the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU)'s University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN).