A Wide Variety of Choices

In a rapidly changing world, the key to your success will be the development of core foundations: critical thinking, analytical and communication skills, and breadth of knowledge. The University of Pittsburgh provides this foundation through a diverse selection of academic choices. The University includes 10 schools that offer more than 100 undergraduate-level degree programs with more than 2,000 courses per term.

Below, you will find academic information in three formats, starting with the most specific, and graduating to the most comprehensive:

• Majors and supplemental program information.
• Departmental information.
• College/school information.

Major and supplemental program information

This page provides specific information about individual programs, departments, and supplemental fields of study, by school. The information focuses on academic requirements for each major and core graduation requirements for the school.

Below you can find information sheets for our majors, certificate programs, and pre-professional preparation programs. Where appropriate, the information sheets will link directly to the home page of the department for that major/area of interest.

School of Arts and Sciences

Pre-Professional Programs in Arts and Sciences

College of Business Administration

Swanson School of Engineering

School of Nursing (fall term)

Supplemental Fields of Study

The following are certificate, not degree programs. A certificate is a concentration of study that can complement a major. Note: your certificate typically needs to be in the same school as your major.

Arts and Sciences Certificate Programs

University Center for International Studies Certificate Programs

CBA Certificate Programs

School of Engineering Certificate Programs

Upper-Level Division Schools/Programs

Students interested in the schools listed below begin their University studies in the School of Arts and Sciences taking prerequisite courses. Transfer is typically at the junior year level. Exception: traditional age freshmen apply at the sophomore level for College of General Studies majors. Non-traditional freshmen (out of high school for two or more years) and transfers may apply for direct admission.

College of General Studies

School of Education

School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

School of Information Sciences

School of Pharmacy

School of Social Work

Departmental information

This page will allow you to link with the different departmental websites within each school to learn more, on a broader scale, about the department, its majors, faculty, and exciting things that are happening in the way of research and other activities.

To link with individual department sites, click here.

College/school information

The school websites will give you an overview of the whole school, including its graduate and undergraduate divisions, where applicable, all the departments within the school, research centers and other unique offerings.

Freshman level entry schools include:

• School of Arts and Sciences
• College of Business Administration
• Swanson School of Engineering
• School of Nursing

• School of Education
• College of General Studies
• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• School of Information Sciences
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Social Work

For information on graduate programs, go to Graduate Programs.

At the University of Pittsburgh, commitment is made to educating the whole student, so that every graduate, regardless of degree, should leave the university possessing four key attributes: communication skills, a sense of motivation, a sense of responsibility, and a sense of self. It is the University's goal to produce students who become perceptive, reflective, contributing individuals within a diverse community of faculty, staff, administrators, and fellow students.