University of Pittsburgh was founded in 1787. University originally was a small private school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; then in 1966, changed to a state university. The university campus is spread in various areas, such as in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville, Pennsylvania. While its main campus with an area 132 hectares, located in Oakland.
The university offers bachelor's degree programs, master's, doctoral, and professional. And for the school, the university offers courses of Arts and Sciences, Business, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, General studies, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Honor, Information Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public and International Affairs, Public Health and Social Work. In addition, the university is also doing research is conducted in more than 300 centers, clinics, laboratories and Institutes.
Featured Pitt's study abroad programs include International Marketing in Ecuador, Cuban Social Policy Issues in Cuba and Monsters, Madmen, and the Modern City in Prague. And one of the proud achievement was, in 1955, a researcher from the university has been successful for the first time developed the polio vaccine.
In addition to conducting research, the university has also been affiliated with Pitt's schools of health and medicine and operates more than 22 academic, community and specialty hospitals.
Many important people and famous who are alumni of the university, of which there are Oscar-winning actor Gene Kelly, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of cortisone, Philip Hench.
With the mascot, the Tiger Beetle, from the university's sports teams compete with other teams in the NCAA Division I competition.
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