After more than 200 years of development, the University of Pittsburgh has become a comprehensive university covering medical schools, business schools, law schools, engineering schools, arts and sciences schools, public affairs and international affairs schools, and information schools. By the end of 20 16, there were 4572 teachers in the school; There are 26,485 students in the school, including undergraduates18,757 and postgraduates 7,728.
The University of Pittsburgh is one of the 63 members of the association of american universities. It has a strong scientific research strength with an annual scientific research expenditure of 642 million US dollars, ranking the top 20 in the United States in terms of scientific and engineering research expenditure, 65,438+03 in terms of federal scientific and engineering research expenditure and 65,438+00 in terms of federal contract scientific and engineering research expenditure. In 2008, PETA ranked fifth in the United States in the peer review of the allocation of funds by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to research funding, the University of Pittsburgh is also a major biomedical research center. According to 20 15 USNews, Pittsburgh medical center ranks tenth among hospitals in the United States.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC): 1986, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Westinghouse Electric Company established the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center /PSC, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and several federal government agencies. It provides supercomputing resources for engineering and scientific research. PSC is one of the main cooperative organizations of the network infrastructure project TeraGrid of the national science foundation of the United States.
Big Data Healthcare Alliance: 2065438+In March 2005, three academic medical institutions, the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), established the Big Data Healthcare Alliance to transform the current healthcare system with big data. For example, the use of intelligent data can help hospitals and doctors quickly find new potential epidemics and immediately warn relevant parties and units to take further appropriate measures.
National Science Foundation Innovation Corporation (NFS I-CORPS): The National Science Foundation of the United States designated the University of Pittsburgh as the I-Corps site (the "I" in the I-Corps site stands for "innovation"). This organization provided a large team composed of local entrepreneurs, investors and local entrepreneurial instructors to actually run business and entrepreneurship education activities.
In terms of academic system, PETA is a semester system. There are three semesters in a year, which are autumn classes (from early September to 1 mid-February), spring classes (from mid-October to the end of April) and summer classes (from early May to the end of August). The new school year begins in September and ends at the end of April of the following year. Early May is the big graduation season every year. Graduates and all teachers and students will gather at the Peterson Activity Center, where they will attend the graduation ceremony of their respective colleges and the graduation ceremony of the whole school.
By the end of 2008, PETA had received $2.33 billion in endowment funds, ranking 29th in the United States and 8th among public universities. In 2006, PETA received a US federal research fund of 10. With the huge financial support, the financial budget of the University of Pittsburgh in 20 10 reached a huge 172 billion dollars.
PETA's most famous fields are related disciplines of medicine, humanities and social sciences and biological sciences.
In the evaluation of American universities by the National Research Council (NRC), the Department of Philosophy ranks second in the United States. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science ranks fifth in the United States. The Department of Art and Architectural History ranks seventh in the United States.
In addition, the NRC report also pointed out that the school is listed as one of the best subjects in the United States in psychology, political science and English literature. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and its affiliated UPMC- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are among the best in the United States.
In 2008, PETA's research funding from the National Institutes of Health (the national institution responsible for medical research and development funds in the United States) ranked fifth in the United States, reaching more than 400 million US dollars. Pita is at the leading level in organ transplantation technology, neurosurgery, stem cell science and tissue engineering, and nanotechnology, among which organ transplantation technology is second to none. In May 2009, UPMC performed the first hand transplant in the United States. The outstanding disciplines of the University of Pittsburgh also include bioengineering, information science, international studies, library and information science, information systems, industrial engineering, education, music, clinical psychology, public health and so on. During the G20 Summit in September 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and European Commission President Barroso visited Malaysia and delivered speeches.
The University of Pittsburgh is the birthplace of the world's first polio vaccine. There is the first university building in the western hemisphere and the second tallest in the world. 1937, a Gothic building-Learning Cathedral, is a "temple of thinking" building. There are famous American basketball and American football teams as members of NCAA Division I and Dadong.
There are seventeen professional libraries on the campus of Pita University. Each college has its own library and computer classroom, and students can print materials or use them online for free. Hillman Library is a large comprehensive library, and it is also the place that students use most often. Because students attend class for one hour and then spend three hours digesting and absorbing, the library is always full of students, and the atmosphere of study and research is very hot. Before the midterm/final exam every week, the museum will prepare free coffee and snacks for students to enjoy after 10 in the evening. The most distinctive feature of the library is the East Asia Library located on the second floor, with a collection of more than 465,438+06,500 newspapers and periodicals from Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province, Japan and South Korea. In addition, there are many indoor gyms, basketball courts, squash courts and swimming pools on campus, which can be used free of charge with student ID cards.
18 19 was renamed Pennsylvania western university. 1908 has a new name-University of Pittsburgh. From 1908 to 1966, the University of Pita has always been a private university. Strictly speaking, the University of Pittsburgh is a "state-related" rather than a strictly public university. "State correlation" is a unique system in Pennsylvania. The school receives funds from the state government and charges lower tuition fees to its students. But schools are as efficient and independent as private universities, rather than being controlled by the state government like public universities. University of Pittsburgh 1966 began to be state-related and generally classified as a public university.
Location The University of Pittsburgh is located in Oakland, east of Pittsburgh, and is connected with the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in the same city. With a population of more than 2.4 million, Pittsburgh is the second largest city in Pennsylvania and the 2 1 metropolitan area in the United States. It is the traditional steel in America.
The central city of iron and steel industry has already got rid of the old name of industrial pollution and become a city with medical care, leisure and humanities and arts as the mainstay; Economically, it has been transformed into a prosperous industrial and commercial city famous for finance, biotechnology, computer science and technology, robot manufacturing and medical health, and has become a model of urban economic transformation in the United States. On September 24th and 25th, 2009, the G20 Summit was held at the david lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Because of the characteristics of steel, bridges, sports and robot manufacturing, Pittsburgh is nicknamed the city of steel, the city of bridges, the city of champions and the city of robots. Pittsburgh is one of the cities with the best public security in the United States and has been rated as the most livable city in the United States for many times. It has a long historical memory and a modern urban scene. It can reach the greater new york area in the east and the Great Lakes in the north. It can be said to be an important place connecting the east coast and the midwest of the United States. Pittsburgh is the global headquarters of eight Fortune 500 companies, including American Steel Company and PNC Financial Services Group, ranking eighth in the United States, and the American headquarters of Bayer AG of Germany is also located here. Alcoa's operational headquarters is also located here. Major employers in Pittsburgh include Bank of New York Mellon, GlaxoSmithKline, Deloitte and FedEx.
Pittsburgh is the center city of American contemporary art, rich in culture and art. Adjacent to the campus of Pittsburgh University are Carnegie Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of History and Natural History donated by Carnegie, the steel king. Andy warhol, a famous American modernist artist, the andy warhol Art Museum in andy warhol is the largest individual art museum in the United States. The University of Pittsburgh Art Museum is also one of the most prestigious university art galleries in the United States. Its collections include Renaissance art, Baroque art, Asian art and contemporary art. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is one of the earliest traditional symphony orchestras in the United States.
Pittsburgh is a typical sports city. Has three very famous professional teams. In American football, Pittsburgh pittsburgh steelers won the NFL championship (Super Bowl) in February 2009, becoming the first team in American history to win the NFL championship six times. In ice hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins won the NHL championship (Stanley Cup) three times. In baseball, the Pittsburgh Pirates won the MLB championship five times. Although there is no basketball team in Pittsburgh, the men's basketball team of the University of Pittsburgh is a strong team in American college basketball.
"Pittsburgh-this city is our campus." (Pittsburgh-the city is our campus) is a sentence in the official website of the University of Pittsburgh, which fully reveals the close interaction between the University of Pittsburgh and the city.