University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded in 1787 as Pittsburgh Academy and named a university in 1908. It is the center of a multi-campus system, with the main campus in the Oakland neighborhood. The Cathedral of Learning, a 42-story Gothic Revival tower, is the academic landmark. Affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center defines much of its graduate health research.

Schools include the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Swanson School of Engineering, Katz Graduate School of Business, School of Law, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Pharmacy, School of Computing and Information, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and schools of education, social work, nursing, dental medicine, and health and rehabilitation sciences. UPMC hospitals and the Learning Research and Development Center are the main settings outside departmental laboratories.

About 35,000 students enroll across Pitt campuses, most of them in Oakland, with several thousand in graduate and professional programs and students from more than 100 countries. Alumni include television host Fred Rogers, dancer and actor Gene Kelly, and novelist Michael Chabon.

Pitt awards MA, MS, MBA, MPH, JD, MD, PharmD, PhD and other professional doctorates. Medical and health students train in UPMC hospitals; other PhDs follow a coursework-plus-dissertation model. The calendar is semester-based. Teaching and research assistantships and NIH-linked training grants support many doctoral students. Oakland is a dense academic neighborhood adjoining Carnegie Mellon University, with the rest of the city a short ride away.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Pittsburgh lists 289 graduate programs across 46 subjects: 134 master's programs and 110 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, health & medical sciences and business & management. University of Pittsburgh holds rank 75 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.