VICE recently released a list of the 100 most militarized universities in the U.S, where Penn came in at #57. The schools were ranked based on the number of graduating students going into the U.S. intelligence community, as well as "51 additional factors, from funding amounts to a designation as an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence to participation in federal domestic security task forces." The sample size records the number of workers in military and law enforcements agencies, as well as a percentage of those afforded a Top Secret clearance by the federal government.
The ranking denotes Penn’s involvement in the Army’s Micro Autonomous Systems Collaborative Technology Alliance as well as the school’s IARPA funding to create predictive analysis systems. Department of Defense Research and Development funding to Penn comes in at a whopping $47,181,000.
To learn more about the rankings, see VICE News.
