University Of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a large city.

Overview

The University of Pittsburgh, also known as Pitt, is a coeducational, public research, state-related university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The school was founded as The Pittsburgh Academy in 1787--located in a log cabin near Pittsburgh's three rivers--and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country. It became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in 1966.

Today the main campus has more than 90 buildings on 132 acres, in the city's Oakland neighborhood. Pitt also has four regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville, all in Pennsylvania.

Pitt was selected to membership in the Association of American Universities, in acknowledgment of its position as a top research university. As of 2010, it ranks in top ten nationally in terms of research funds received from the National Institutes of Health.

Pitt offers classes in the following academic divisions:

• College of Business Administration
• College of General Studies
• Graduate School of Public & International Affairs (GSPIA)
• Graduate School of Public Health
• Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
• School of Arts and Sciences
• School of Dental Medicine
• School of Education
• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• School of Information Sciences
• School of Law
• School of Medicine
• School of Nursing
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Social Work
• Swanson School of Engineering
• University Honors College

Pitt has an active Greek community constituting of several fraternities and sororities governed by the North-American Interfraternity Conference.

The athletic teams of the University of Pittsburgh are the Panthers. They have won championships in football, conference titles in many sports and national rankings in basketball, wrestling and volleyball.

Notable alumni include Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Bill Cullen, host of many TV game shows; Gene Kelly, legendary actor-dancer; Lorin Maazel, conductor, New York Philharmonic; Fred Rogers, host of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" on public TV; DuJuan Blair, power forward for San Antonio Spurs and All-American; Mike Ditka, Pro Football Hall of Famer; Roger Kingdom, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, sprint hurdler; Andrew Mellon, banker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, philanthropist; Lauren Resnick, president of American Education Research Association; Gust Avrakotos, CIA gent mentioned in book "Charlie Wilson's War," who armed Afghan Mujaheddin in 1980s; Ben Cardin and Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senators; and Yuan Chang, virologist-pathologist, co-discoverer of cause of Kaposi's sarcoma. Novelist John Irving attended but did not graduate.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in medicine, liberal arts, religion and philosophy, and fine arts.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• Large number of students.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.
• High faculty salary.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

Tuition and Financial Aid (2009-2010)

Financial Aid

University Of Pittsburgh participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

In 2009-2010, 71% of students received financial aid of some sort.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 27,562 in 2009-2010 (27,964 full-time equivalent).

About 48% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 52% of the class.

Undergrads are 24% of enrolled students and graduate students are 76%.

Students under 25 years old represent 69% of the student body. About 5% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

University Of Pittsburgh provides on-campus housing for 7,200 of its 27,964 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Big East Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 203 male students received the aid (men were 60% of those receiving aid) and 134 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 40% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

University Of Pittsburgh offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education and medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (1,004 awarded)

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management
• Business/Commerce
• Finance
• International Business/Trade/Commerce
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing/Marketing Management
• Organizational Behavior Studies

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (211 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications
• Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
• Information Science/Studies

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (28 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (592 awarded)

• Education
• Education/Teaching Individuals - Vision Impairments/ Blindness
• Educational Leadership and Administration
• Physical Education Teaching and Coaching
• Reading Teacher Education
• Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor

ENGINEERING (540 awarded)

• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (332 awarded)

• Public Administration
• Public Administration and Social Service Professions
• Public Policy Analysis
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (96 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Fine/Studio Arts

LAW (342 awarded)

• Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Law (LLM, MS, JSD/SJD)
• Health Law (LLM, MJ, JSD/SJD)
• International Law and Legal Studies (LLM, JSD/SJD)
• Law (LLB, JD)
• Legal Professions and Studies
• Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies
• Legal Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (2,225 awarded)

• African Studies
• African-American/Black Studies
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Asian Studies/Civilization
• Central/Middle and Eastern European Studies
• Chinese Language and Literature
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Creative Writing
• East Asian Studies
• Economics
• English Composition
• English Language and Literature
• English Language and Literature/Letters
• English Literature (British and Commonwealth)
• European Studies/Civilization
• French Language and Literature
• Geography
• German Language and Literature
• Historic Preservation and Conservation
• History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• History
• Humanities/Humanistic Studies
• International Relations and Affairs
• Italian Language and Literature
• Japanese Language and Literature
• Latin American Studies
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Library Science/Librarianship
• Linguistics
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian Studies
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Social Sciences
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies
• Urban Studies/Affairs
• Western European Studies
• Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (97 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (108 awarded)

• Mass Communication/Media Studies

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (82 awarded)

• Community Health and Preventive Medicine
• Environmental Health
• Health Information/Medical Records Administration/Administrator
• Health/Health Care Administration/Management
• Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
• Public Health Education and Promotion

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (169 awarded)

• Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist
• Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science and Allied Professions
• Dental Hygiene/Hygienist

MEDICINE (570 awarded)

• Dental Clinical Sciences, General (MS, PhD)
• Dentistry (DDS, DMD)
• Endodontics/Endodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)
• Gerontology
• Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
• Medical Scientist (MS, PhD)
• Medicine (MD)
• Neuroscience
• Orthodontics/Orthodontology (Cert, MS, PhD)
• Pharmaceutics and Drug Design (MS, PhD)
• Pharmacy (PharmD [USA], PharmD or BS/BPharm [Canada])
• Public Health

MUSIC (21 awarded)

• Music

NURSING AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE (252 awarded)

• Nurse Anesthetist
• Nursing Science (MS, PhD)
• Nursing
• Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
• Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (277 awarded)

• Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services
• Dietetics/Dietitian (RD)
• Kinesiotherapy/Kinesiotherapist
• Occupational Therapy/Therapist
• Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (41 awarded)

• Film/Cinema Studies

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (62 awarded)

• Jewish/Judaic Studies
• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (533 awarded)

• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biological and Physical Sciences
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biostatistics
• Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Epidemiology
• Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
• Geology/Earth Science
• Human/Medical Genetics
• Immunology
• Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
• Microbiology
• Molecular Biology
• Molecular Pharmacology
• Neurobiology and Neurophysiology
• Optics/Optical Sciences
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology
• Physical Sciences
• Physics

SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT (80 awarded)

• Corrections

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (476 awarded)

• Bioethics/Medical Ethics
• Clinical/Medical Social Work
• Educational Psychology
• Genetic Counseling/Counselor
• Physical Therapy/Therapist
• Psychology