The Campus
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Founded in a log cabin in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is among the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. The University has nearly 169,000 alumni living in all 54 states and territories and 117 foreign countries whose accomplishments range from winning Olympic gold medals to unlocking the secrets of DNA. From University laboratories have come Jonas Salk's polio vaccine and the identification of Vitamin C. Today, this former frontier University is an internationally recognized center of learning and research, strong in the arts and sciences and the professions. |
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The University's Pittsburgh campus consists of more than 90 buildings on 132 acres in Oakland, the city's cultural and medical center. Pitt also has four regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville, Pennsylvania. |
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Pitt's total enrollment for its five campuses is 32,107 students. Of this total, 23,598 are full-time and 8,509 are part-time: 22,471 are undergraduates and 9,634 are graduate students. More than 26,000 of the students are enrolled at the Pittsburgh campus. Click here to go to the University of Pittsburgh web site. Pitt was selected to membership in the Association of American Universities (AAU), in acknowledgement of its position as one of the top research universities in North America. University researchers bring in more than $232 million annually for sponsored research and other sponsored programs, and Pitt ranks in the top ten nationally in terms of research funds received from the National Institute of Health. |
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Pitt is 215 years old,
making it one of the nation's oldest educational institutions, established
in 1787, just after the original colonial colleges.Pitt has several
programs ranked in the top 26 in their field nationally including
anthropology, art history, history and philosophy of science, industrial
engineering, and linguistics. Pitt also has many other highly ranked
programs including chemistry, economics, English language and literature,
music, pharmacology, physics, political science and psychology, among
others.The University Honors College allows highly motivated undergraduate
students to pursue exceptionally challenging honors courses and degrees
and to conduct independent research. Pitt students have won a number of
prestigious awards in recent years, including Rhodes, Marshall, and Truman
scholarships, and National Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities. Pitt's
University Center for International Studies offers an extensive
study-abroad program, and the opportunity to spend an entire semester
aboard the SS Universe, the world's only floating campus. UCIS also offers
area studies programs in Asian, East Asian, Latin American, East European,
Russian, Soviet Studies and West European Studies. Pitt was ranked as one
of the 100 "best college values" in higher education among
national universities in a 1996 Money Magazine report.
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