The University of Pittsburgh is among the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. The University of Pittsburgh has nearly 169,000 alumni living in all 50 states and 4 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.

Campuses

The University of 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.

Enrollment

The University of Pittsburgh 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.

Faculty

The University of Pittsburgh faculty totals 3,154 full-time and 677 part-time. The University has 38 endowed chairs and professorships. Each year the University honors faculty excellence with Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching, and Research, and Public Service Awards.

University of Pittsburgh 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. University of Pittsburgh has many other highly ranked programs including chemistry, economics, English language and literature, music, pharmacology, physics, political science and psychology, among others.

University of Pittsburgh also have many schools ans college including Pittsburgh Honors College, Pittsburgh School of Law and Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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.

Pittsburgh athletic have won national championships in football, conference titles in many sports, national rankings in basketball, wrestling and volleyball, and individual national championships in gymnastics, swimming and track and field. Former Pitt track and field star Roger Kingdom is a two-time Olympic gold medallist.

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.