About the School
Visiting Temple and Philadelphia
The School of Communications and Theater is located on Temple University's Main Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and offers classes at the Center City Campus in Philadelphia, the suburban campus at Ambler, and the Capitol campus in Harrisburg. In addition, students may complete communications degrees at Temple Japan in Tokyo.
With Temple's Boyer College of Music and Dance, the School of Communications and Theater forms a mini arts district on Main Campus that will be complete when the Tyler School of Arts relocates to North Philadelphia in 2009. With approximately 10,000 students living on or near campus, and millions of dollars in private development, Temple's North Philadelphia community is experiencing a period of unprecedented growth.
Philadelphia is an important part of the experience at Temple University, which is located just two miles north of City Hall and Center City. As the second largest city on the east coast, Philadelphia is at the center of a region alive with innovation in commerce and finance, technological and scientific advancement, achievement in medicine and law, and accomplishment in the arts.
In Center City, you'll find the Reading Terminal Market, a smorgasbord of restaurants, the Liberty Bell, and Penn's Landing, a scenic boulevard at the edge of the Delaware River splashed with clubs and restaurants. Broad Street has been transformed into an axis of theaters, galleries, and performance spaces. The Avenue of the Arts, as it is known, is a ribbon of creativity winding from South Philadelphia, wrapping around City Hall, and continuing north through Main Campus.
Add to these attractions Fairmount Park, the nation's largest landscaped city park, the renowned Philadelphia Museum of Art, the nightlife of South Street, the Flyers, Eagles, Phillies, 76ers, and a mosaic of vibrant neighborhoods, and you can see why Temple University is happy to call Philadelphia home.
