As a Tyler student at Temple University, you can live in two worlds – the small, individualized creative environment of Tyler and Temple’s large, dynamic ecosystem of scientists, entrepreneurs, performing artists, aspiring doctors, lawyers, social workers and technologists, who will expose you to …almost everything.
Small Philadelphia School of Art + Architecture.
Big University Opportunities.
Your Tyler education offers an intense creative education hallmarked by one-on-one attention and mentorship.
Endless Opportunities
But step outside our studios and classrooms and you’ll find the massive resources of Philadelphia’s only public university at your disposal.
From undergraduate research and creative grants to student jobs, internships and study abroad, you’ll find ways to grow at Temple you can hardly imagine now.
Make the Most of Temple
Choose General Education Classes That Complement Your Creative Obsessions.
Take a course in Dark Academia: The Literature of College Life or Tupac Shakur and the Hip Hop Revolution. Or add a Temple University minor or second major to your Tyler program.
Tip: Temple University offers 600+ program options.
Study Abroad
Study abroad at Temple’s campuses in Rome or Japan. Spend four-weeks in The Global Good’s Program in Prague. Or explore the country of your ancestors. There are at least 1,000 study abroad programs from which to choose.
Studying Abroad The Global Good’s Program
Explore the work of Temple University’s other creatives
The musicians, writers, theater and media artists working at the forefront of their disciplines.
Get involved.
Temple has 330-plus student clubs and organizations that range from Thrift and Flop, Language and Linguistics Club and Future Business Leaders of America to Film in Color, Insomnia Theater and many others.
Explore Student Clubs and Organizations
Move.
Join the 4,000 people everyday who take part in Campus Recreation programs like intramurals, group fitness classes, club sports, adapted recreation, aquatics and working out in the Independence Blue Cross Student Recreation Center.
A True Cliché – Tyler at Temple Offers the Best of Both Worlds
With about 1,500 students at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and about 30,000 across Temple, we deliver the type of education only possible at a small school that’s part of a large, renowned research university.
This gives you the small college experience – personal attention and mentoring – while putting Temple’s enormous resources – internship opportunities, research experiences, campus jobs and state-of-the-art facilities like the nation’s largest computer lab – at your fingertips. It’s like getting a private education for a public university price.
A Temple Residency Empowers Tyler MFA Student
Equipped with a Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio’s Makerspace Residency, MFA Sculpture alum Ollie Goss (MFA ’24) used Temple University’s Makerspace inside the Charles Library to complete their thesis project, Tunnel of Love, an amusement park ride built from a mobility scooter and PVC-pipe, examining how rules and regulations govern space, hindering access.
Ollie Goss
Multimedia Artist and Puppeteer based in Philadelphia.
The Makerspace provided Goss with electronics expertise, 3D and resin printing and much-needed advice. “The Makerspace staff has been so generous with their time and resources. I didn’t have the confidence in the electronic parts of my project until going to the Makerspace.”
Temple’s Rome Campus Inspires a Reluctant Art Conservator
As the daughter of a professional artist, Sera Park (BA ’24 Art History, Economics) influenced by her family to study Art History, Park was leery of the science involved in art conservation. But after spending her first year on at Temple University’s Rome Campus, where she interned with an art conservator, she returned ready to dig in.
Sera Park
(BA ’24 Art History, Economics)
“I don’t think I’d have chosen this field if I hadn’t studied abroad,” says Park, who graduated with a double major in Economics and Art History with a Chemistry minor. “That wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t been exposed to the field in Rome.”
Park, who is completing an internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Asian Art and Paper Conservation Department, also studied abroad at Temple’s Japan Campus, in Mexico and England while at Temple and Tyler. She plans to earn a master’s degree and work in art conservation.
How a Sense of Place Became a Career
Having grown up steeped in the community and history of North Philadelphia’s The Church of the Advocate, Tyler Ray (B.S. ’22, Community Development – certificate in Historic Preservation) loved the architecture and the role it played in civil and women’s rights.
Tyler Ray
Project Manager at the Community Design Collaborative
Ray regularly gave tours of The Advocate and began serving as a liaison between Temple and the church. Though he hesitated attending Temple because of this North Philly roots, he realized his sense of place activated him.
“I was doing a lot of community work. I wanted to stay focused on North Philly,” Ray explained. “Temple is in my backyard, it’s my community. I realized I could use that to my advantage. I realized it would be weird if I went to an institution that wasn’t in my neighborhood. Temple has helped me stay grounded.”