Duquesne University

Duquesne University is a private Catholic research university founded in 1878 by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States., According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Duquesne University is classified as a research university with high level.

Duquesne has a total student enrollment 10 368 undergraduate and graduate students. The University has grown consists of ten schools and other institutions, which offer degree programs at the baccalaureate, professional, master's and doctoral levels in 189 academic programs. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world, and hosts international students from over eighty different countries following institutions, along with their date of establishment,

comprising Duquesne University :

1. McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (1878)
2. Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (formally separated from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1994)
3. Duquesne School of Law (1911)
4. A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration (1913)
5. Mylan School of Pharmacy (1925)
6. Mary Pappert School of Music (1926)
7. School of Education (1929)
8. School of Nursing (1937)
9. Rangos School of Health Sciences (1990)
10. School Leadership and Professional Advancement (2001)

Students also have the opportunity to participate in a study abroad program that has been offered by Duquesne University. Although the university has established cooperation with countries around the world to succeed in the course, but one of the favorite destinations of the study program is a satellite campus of Duquesne University, located in Rome, Italy.

One school in this university, School of Pharmacy, established the Pharmaceutical Services Center located nearby Hill District, which is a community pharmacy nation's first off-campus designed and operated by a pharmacy school.

Duquesne University has several sports teams of men and women known as the mascot, dubbed Dukes, they compete with sports teams from other universities to be the best in the NCAA Division I athletic competition.

Still from the field of sports, Duquesne University has one of the best basketball athlete who is the first African American basketball player who Drafted into the NBA, Chuck Cooper, who has successfully completed his studies and graduated from this university in 1950.