Our Community

Teachers, entrepreneurs, presidents, and more.

Graduates of Penn GSE belong to a rich heritage of educators and thought leaders. Even though our more than 17,000 graduates live and work across the globe, members of our diverse alumni network share extraordinary lifelong connections with faculty, staff, and fellow alumni from GSE and the larger Penn alumni community.

Learn about the accomplishments of our alumni and the opportunities available to our graduates. Or, you can contact the Penn GSE Office of Development and Alumni Relations: (215) 573-6623 or alumni@gse.upenn.edu.

By the Numbers

17,000+ 17,000+ members of the Education Alumni Association

95 Alumni living in 95 countries, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia

2,100+2,100+ attended GSE in an executive format program

37%37% graduated in the last 10 years

Angela Duckworth and Dean Grossman sit opposite each other conversing before an audience

Penn GSE Facilitates a Conversation on Learning and Character at Homecoming

Character, collaboration, and project-based learning were topics of conversation when best-selling author and Penn professor Angela Duckworth joined Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman for a discussion during Penn’s Homecoming Weekend.

The Education Alumni Association

A Network at Your Fingertips

All graduates are members of the Penn GSE Education Alumni Association (EAA), which provides opportunities for continued advancement, professional growth, networking, and sharing of expertise with the next generation of education leaders.

Meet Our Alumni

Penn GSE is striving to change the world, one graduate at a time. Read stories of the many ways our alumni are having a transformational impact.

Andrew Biros, C’10, GED’12

When Andrew Biros, C’10, GED’12, undertook his student-teaching assignment in Penn GSE’s Teacher Education Program, he found that too many of his pupils at University City High School in Philadelphia did not expect to be active participants in the classroom.