unitid 215293 · Pittsburgh, PA · public 4-year · city (large)
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
State-related university in Pennsylvania, US
- founded
- 1787
- enrollment 2023
- 35,659
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- pitt.edu
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the university's central administration and over 31,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The 132-acre Pittsburgh campus includes various historic buildings that are part of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the Cathedral of Learning. Pitt is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1363889180 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
58%
15th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
20,370
88th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
14%
undergrads on Pell grants
5th pctl among public 4-years
completion
86%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$38,105
98th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$30,434
after aid, aided students
100th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$66,125
after entry, Title IV students
87th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$24,250
85th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $14,709 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k15%
- 30-48k10%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $81,308
- First-generation students
- 21%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $21,926
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 2.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 448 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 308 | $61,794 | $25,000 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 308 | $77,904 | $27,000 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other. | 275 | $67,854 | $25,308 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 234 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 195 | $104,624 | $26,977 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 182 | $91,242 | $24,000 |
| Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies. | 170 | $53,776 | $26,000 |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences. | 169 | $64,114 | $23,000 |
| Social Work. | 167 | — | — |
| Marketing. | 167 | $78,395 | $25,606 |
| Economics. | 158 | $73,651 | $25,782 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 4,693 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,757) · basketball player (553) · university teacher (353) · American football player (238) · politician (170) · writer (132) · lawyer (94) · academic (83)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Philip Showalter Hench Medicine 1950
- Paul Lauterbur Medicine 2003
- Wangari Muta Maathai Peace 2004
- Wangari Muta Maathai Peace
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Wangari Muta Maathai
125 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Gene Kelly
85 wikis · Public domain
Fred Rogers
75 wikis · Public domain
Paul Lauterbur
58 wikis · Public domain
Philip Showalter Hench
55 wikis · Public domain
Michael Chabon
48 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rick Santorum
46 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jeff Bergman
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lorin Maazel
43 wikis · CC BY 2.5
Joe Manganiello
42 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tshering Tobgay
40 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Jessica Pegula
38 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mahmoud Jibril
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Zelda Rubinstein
34 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Andrew W. Mellon
34 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363889180), CC BY-SA 4.0.