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university of Pittsburgh

UNIVERSITY of PITTSBURGH

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • The motto is Veritas et Virtus meaning ''Truth and Virtue''

  • Amount of students attending is approximately 29,530

  • The student-faculty ratio is 14:1

  • Founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge in 1787

  • The Western University of Pennsylvania - intended to be the western sister to UPenn

  • After the Great Fire of 1845 lessons were moved to Trinity Church since most of the records and files were destroyed

  • In 1908 renamed as University of Pittsburgh

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:

  • Majors - Business Information Systems, Civil Engineering, Dental Hygiene, Environmental Science, Microbiology, Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Quantum Computing and more

  • Minors - Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, Physics... 

 

ALUMNI:

university of pittsburgh

  • 3 Nobel Prizes

  • National Medal of Science

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • Olympic gold medals

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • Paul Lauterbur (Nobel Prize in Medicine)

  • Wangari Maathai (Nobel Peace Prize)

  • Vjosa Osmani (President of Kosovo)

  • Philip Hench (Nobel Prize in Medicine)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • 132-acre campus in the historic Oakland neighbourhood

  • Noted for impressive architecture including Greek revival, Neogothic, Italian Renaissance

  • The main campus contains four sections - upper, mid, lower and the medical centre complex

  • Programs to improve sustainability initiatives and practices 

REQUIREMENTS:

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