Duquesne University is a private, coeducational university, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania located on 48 secluded acres, on a bluff above downtown.
- Founded in 1878 as a Catholic college by the Order of the Holy Spirit. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world.
- Enrollment: 10,368 students (Fall 2007)
- 5,907 undergraduate
- 4,461 graduate (681 in the School of Law)
- Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 15:1
- 442 full-time and 438 part-time faculty
- 10 schools, 90 undergraduate majors (included in a total of 174 academic programs)
- 10 men’s and 10 women’s varsity sports (NCAA Division I basketball, Atlantic 10 Conference, and Division I-AA football, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
- About 3,500 students live on campus in six modern living-learning centers. (including 85 percent of freshmen and sophomores)
- Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. has been president of the University since 2001.
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Mission Statement
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a Catholic University, founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, the Spiritans, and sustained through a partnership of laity and religious. Duquesne serves God by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity, and through service to the Church, the community, the nation and the world. |
