Duquesne University

Duquesne University, a nationally ranked top-tier university, is a Catholic institution long known for its rich, diverse liberal arts studies and schools of pharmacy, law, sciences, music, education, nursing, business, health sciences and adult learning.

The University recently topped $13 million in grant funding and has won numerous accolades for many of its programs and initiatives. Its rankings of distinction include:

1. A top tier university among 1,400 American institutions surveyed by US News & World Report.
2. No. 1 worldwide among schools of its size and No. 8 overall by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education for integrating social and environmental issues into its MBA program. In 2007, the University launched its MBA for Sustainability.
3. Two consecutive Individual Conference Champion titles from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency for buying more green power than any other Atlantic 10 Conference school.
4. One of the 2009 Top Ten Military Friendly Colleges and Universities for its School of Leadership and Advancement, as rated by Allmilitary.com.
5. No. 16 among small research universities, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education index measuring faculty productivity among more than 7,300 U.S. doctoral programs.
6. Inclusion of Duquesne's Schools of Education, Business and Law in U.S.News & World Report's Graduate School List.
7. Duquesne University School of Nursing named by the National League for Nursing as a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for Creating Environments that Promote Student Learning and Professional Development.
8. Winner of the inaugural Page Prize for the best U.S. submission of an Environmental Sustainability Curriculum.
9. Inclusion of Duquesne's John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 296 Business Schools.
10. Duquesne's School of Education named as one of only nine University Council for Educational Administration centers in the world. This UCEA Center for Educational Leadership and Social Justice focuses on how educational leaders can better be prepared to deal with marginalized, under-represented and underprivileged students.
11. No. 17 ranking of the Duquesne University School of Law's Legal Research and Writing Program, according to the U.S.News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools 2010, ahead of 170 other American Bar Association-accredited law schools.
12. Recognition for community involvement, both by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

The University's 10,000-plus students enjoy an array of amenities on the tree-lined, 49-acre campus overlooking Downtown, including the seven-day-a-week Power Recreation Center, Pennsylvania's first university-licensed, full-service Starbucks, Barnes&Noble @ Duquesne, a Jamba Juice bar and The Red Ring, a full-service restaurant for students, parents, visitors and the local community.

Visit Duquesne at 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 412.396.6222 or www.duq.edu.