Point Park University

Point Park University will become one of the most dynamic, private, urban universities in America with an intense focus on student success through distinctive, innovative and experiential learning.

At Point Park, Pittsburgh's only Downtown university, you'll engage in a more active, more real, more professional education. You'll have professors who teach from their own real-world experience when you pursue a degree from among more than 100 undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs that we offer.

You'll have access to successful, working professionals within your field. You'll have internship and job opportunities with leading companies and organizations. And you'll have the limitless cultural and entertainment opportunities that only a world-class city can offer.

Our Downtown Pittsburgh neighborhood offers pristine parks, riverfront trails and hundreds of shops and restaurants. It's home to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

It's a place where more than 140,000 people come to work each day and where more than 7,000 people (including 1,000 Point Park students) live. It's a dynamic city center that makes a dynamic college experience possible.

As we like to point out, our students are already engaged in a more active, more engaged, more professional education. Our academic and social environment offers students limitless opportunities to explore their academic and career ambitions with the ultimate aim of preparing them for engagement in life after college.

From photography and art exhibitions in Lawrence Hall, to performances Downtown and at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, to cinema and photographic art installations on Wood Street, creativity plays a vital role in defining the Point Park experience. The spirit of the individual is alive and thriving here.

Our faculty and students are immersed into the fabric of Pittsburgh. We're proud to provide a professionally rich atmosphere in which students benefit from academic opportunities through internships, faculty projects, and connections with alumni who are making valuable contributions in their respective fields. And our expanding Downtown campus is creating a growing academic, social and cultural hub for both our city neighbors and the University community.

More passionate, more professional, more real world — this is the essence of a Point Park University education. Knowledge can come from books and lectures, but learning reaches a new level when it's hands on, active and career focused.

Our dynamic, urban campus provides every opportunity for high-level learning and professional development within our more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs through our Conservatory of Performing Arts, Rowland School of Business and Schools of Arts and Sciences, Education and Communication.

The real-world, career-focused education you will receive at Point Park University will encourage you to embrace new ways of thinking while preparing you to enter — or advance — in your career field.

As an undergraduate, graduate or international student at Point Park, you’ll have access to opportunities only a world-class city can offer — and few universities can match — for a real-world, career-oriented education. At Point Park University, internships, co-ops and careeropportunities are right at your doorstep. You'll be in the perfect spot to pursue a wide range of opportunities.

Additionally, our Career Development Center is always ready to help you — both before and after you graduate — with internship and job searches, resumes, cover letters and interviewing skills.

It's years of hard study. It's individual attention and encouragement. It's securing the dream of a fulfilling future. But the years spent here are much more than the work that goes into getting a diploma - they're the four most memorable years of your life.

Studying abroad in the United States is both exciting and rewarding. Pursuing your academic and professional goals in a country so filled with opportunity — it is an experience that will enrich your education, your career and your life.

You see many advantages to studying in the U.S., but no doubt you have questions and concerns, too. As an international student, you will be making great sacrifices - leaving behind family, friends, a familiar lifestyle and more.

How realistic is paying for Point Park education? In a word, VERY. Point Park is a private university and a highly affordable one. When you consider tuition that is lower than many of our competitors, more generous financial aid packages and a comparison of cost to graduate outcomes, Point Park is a value unlike any other.

College is an investment - and a significant one. As a result, you want the greatest return possible. With the unique professional opportunities offered by Point Park and Downtown Pittsburgh, your return will be solid, and your future will be bright.

There are many options to help you afford your education - from scholarships, grand and loans to payment plans - and we'll help you sort through them. We are committed to making a Point Park education affordable, and we will work closely with you to make this unique real-world education a reality.

At Point Park, Pittsburgh’s only Downtown university, you’ll engage in a more active, more real, more professional education. Whether you’re looking to get an undergraduate degree in one of our more than 50 majors or one of our 17 graduate degrees to help boost your career, you’ll have professors who teach from their own real-world experience. You’ll have access to successful, working professionals within your field.