Vol. II - June 2009

In This Issue

• Home
• Meet Our Director
• Two MES Lecturers win 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award
• We Have a Dean's Scholar!
• MES Students Go to the Ends of the Earth
• Who Is the Ideal MES Student?
• Graduate Student Research Forum 2009
• Admission Tips
• Housing
• Getting to Know Philadelphia

About MES

You’ll take courses across the University and collaborate with Penn’s world-class researchers and practitioners in the physical, biological, and social sciences, economics, and other arts and sciences disciplines, as well as professionals in planning, engineering, business, health care, and the law. Gain the breadth needed to address complex issues of the environment while you develop the depth required to provide specific expertise in environmental restoration and protection. More>

Housing

A range of housing options is available to students at the University of Pennsylvania. If you are enrolled as a full-time student, you may choose to live on campus, in the high-rise apartments at Sansom Place. Learn more and download applications at the Department of Housing and Conference Services website.

Or you can choose to live off-campus, as most of the graduate and professional students at Penn do. Although rents have steadily increased over the last several years, the cost of housing in Philadelphia continues to be much more affordable than in other East Coast cities, such as Boston and New York. With a well-developed and well-coordinated mass transit system (SEPTA), many areas of the city and the suburbs are within easy commute. The Office of Off-Campus Services website offers a searchable database of available housing in University City, Philadelphia’s Center City, and adjoining counties.