Salus University recently announced a potential affiliation with Drexel University to link the schools’ graduate health sciences education and clinical practice programs.

The agreement could be finalized as soon as late spring or early summer, and would be contingent on approvals by the schools’ boards of trustees.

Salus, a STEM-centric university, currently enrolls about 1,200 students, and has four clinical facilities in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that provide vision, hearing, and balance, speech-language pathology and occupational therapy services.

Salus’ benefits from the partnership include an expansion in research collaboration and grant funding by gaining access to Drexel’s facilities, and Drexel serving as a feeder to Salus’ graduate programs.

“Such an affiliation, if completed, would greatly expand our ability to provide the very highest level of health care educational options, access to clinical programs, and major new opportunities for research collaboration — primarily because it would be built on the strengths of each institution, which complement each other very well,” Salus president Michael H. Mittelman wrote.

For more coverage, you can read The Philadelphia Inquirer’s article here, or the Philadelphia Business Journal’s article here.

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