University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly known as Pitt, is a state-related public research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and one of the few American universities founded in the eighteenth century, its charter dating from 1787.匹兹堡大学（University of Pittsburgh，简称 Pitt）是位于美国宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的一所州关联公立研究型大学，是美国为数不多建于 18 世纪的大学之一，其特许状可追溯至 1787 年。

The university comprises seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its 132-acre urban Oakland campus, which enrols more than 31,000 undergraduate and graduate students and is centred on the 42-storey Cathedral of Learning, the second tallest university building in the world.该校在占地 132 英亩的奥克兰城市校区设有十七个本科与研究生学院，在校生超过 31,000 人，校区以 42 层的「学习大教堂」为中心——它也是世界第二高的教学大楼。

Pitt is placed joint 279th in the QS World University Rankings 2027, 166th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, 57th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 and in the 101-150 band of the Shanghai ARWU 2026.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 279 位，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 166 位，《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名第 57 位，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名位列 101-150 区间。

History

• Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, the university is the oldest continuously chartered institution of learning in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains, its charter granted on 28 February 1787, ten weeks before the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia.该校由休·亨利·布雷肯里奇创办，1787 年以「匹兹堡学院」之名立案，是美国阿勒格尼山脉以西历史最悠久且持续持有特许状的教育机构；特许状于 1787 年 2 月 28 日颁发，比费城制宪会议开幕早十周。
• The school began as a preparatory school on the Western Pennsylvania frontier, and a two-storey brick building with three rooms was erected in 1790 on the south side of Third Street and Cherry Alley for the Pittsburgh Academy.学校最初是美国西部边疆的一所预科学校；1790 年，一座两层砖楼在第三街与樱桃巷南侧落成，内有三间房，供匹兹堡学院使用。
• In 1819 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania amended the 1787 charter to confer university status, renaming the school the Western University of Pennsylvania, intended as the western sister institution to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.1819 年，宾夕法尼亚州议会修订 1787 年特许状并授予其大学地位，学校更名为西宾夕法尼亚大学，意在成为费城宾夕法尼亚大学的西部姊妹校。
• By 1830 the Western University of Pennsylvania had moved into a three-storey freestone-fronted building with Ionic columns and a cupola in downtown Pittsburgh, and in the 1830s it resisted state pressure to abandon its liberal education for vocational training.至 1830 年，西宾夕法尼亚大学迁入匹兹堡市中心一座三层、正面为毛石砌筑、带爱奥尼柱与圆顶的建筑；1830 年代，该校顶住了州议会要求其放弃博雅教育、转办职业培训的压力。
• The Great Fire of 1845 destroyed the university's buildings along with most of its records, wiping out 20 square blocks of Pittsburgh, and classes were held temporarily in Trinity Church until a new building was completed on Duquesne Way.1845 年的大火焚毁了该校建筑与大部分档案，烧毁匹兹堡 20 个街区；课程暂借三一教堂进行，直到杜肯路的新楼落成。
• That second building was itself destroyed by fire in 1849, operations were suspended for several years, and by 1854 the university had erected a new building at the corner of Ross and Diamond streets, resuming classes in 1855.这座新楼也于 1849 年毁于火灾，学校停办数年；至 1854 年，该校在罗斯街与戴蒙德街（今福布斯大道）转角建成新楼，1855 年恢复授课。
• The Allegheny Observatory was donated to the university in 1865, and Samuel Pierpont Langley was chosen as its director in 1867, serving as professor of astronomy and physics until the astronomer James Keeler succeeded him in 1891.阿勒格尼天文台于 1865 年捐赠给该校；塞缪尔·皮尔庞特·兰利于 1867 年获聘为台长，并任天文学与物理学教授至 1891 年，其后由天文学家詹姆斯·基勒接任。
• The university later moved to a 10-acre site on Observatory Hill in Allegheny City, where Science Hall and Main Hall were occupied in 1889 and 1890, and the first collegiate football team was formed at Pitt in 1889.该校随后迁至阿勒格尼城天文台山占地 10 英亩的校区，科学馆与主楼分别于 1889 年与 1890 年启用；匹兹堡的第一支校际橄榄球队也在 1889 年组建。
• The Western Pennsylvania Medical College was amalgamated into the university in 1892, becoming what is now the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and William Hunter Dammond graduated in 1893 as the university's first African-American graduate.西宾夕法尼亚医学院于 1892 年并入该校，即今日匹兹堡大学医学院；威廉·亨特·达蒙德于 1893 年毕业，成为该校首位非裔美国毕业生。
• The School of Law was established in 1895, when Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse were elected to the board of trustees alongside Andrew Mellon, elected in 1894, and the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy and Pittsburgh Dental School joined in 1896.法学院于 1895 年设立，安德鲁·卡内基与乔治·威斯汀豪斯同年当选董事，与 1894 年入选的安德鲁·梅隆共事；匹兹堡药学院与匹兹堡牙科学院于 1896 年并入。
• In 1898 the sisters Margaret and Stella Stein became the first women to graduate from the university, and by 1904, playing at Exposition Park, the university fielded its first undefeated football team.1898 年，玛格丽特·斯坦与斯特拉·斯坦姐妹成为该校首批女性毕业生；至 1904 年，该校在博览会公园球场拥有了首支全胜橄榄球队。
• By act of the state legislature the Western University of Pennsylvania was renamed the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1908, after the university had bought 43 acres in Oakland in December 1907 and begun moving its departments there in 1909.经州议会立法，西宾夕法尼亚大学于 1908 年夏更名为匹兹堡大学；此前该校已于 1907 年 12 月在奥克兰购得 43 英亩土地，并于 1909 年起陆续迁入各系。
• Henry Hornbostel's winning Greek Acropolis design for 30 buildings guided the new campus plan, but only four buildings were realised in that style and only Thaw Hall survives, while in the autumn of 1909 the university became the first college to adopt the panther as its mascot.亨利·霍恩博斯特尔以希腊卫城风格规划的 30 栋建筑中标方案成为新校区蓝图，但最终仅四栋按此风格建成，其中只有索楼保存至今；1909 年秋，该校成为全美第一所以美洲豹为吉祥物的院校。
• Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman commissioned Charles Klauder's 535-foot Cathedral of Learning in the 1920s, financed partly by a campaign collecting dimes from local schoolchildren, with construction begun in 1926, classes from 1931 and formal dedication in 1937.1920 年代，校监约翰·加伯特·鲍曼委托建筑师查尔斯·克劳德设计 535 英尺高的学习大教堂，建设经费部分来自向本地学童募集的「一角钱」捐款；大楼 1926 年动工，1931 年开始上课，1937 年正式落成。
• Jonas Salk established the university's Virus Research Lab in the basement of what is now Salk Hall, began immunisation experiments in monkeys by 1951, launched human trials in 1953, and saw his polio vaccine declared effective in 1955, reducing the incidence of polio in the United States by 95 per cent by 1962.约纳斯·沙克在今日沙克楼的地下室建立该校病毒研究实验室，1951 年前开始在猴子身上开展免疫试验，1953 年启动人体试验，1955 年其脊髓灰质炎疫苗被宣布有效；到 1962 年，美国脊髓灰质炎发病率因此下降 95%。
• In 1966 Pitt was designated by Pennsylvania as a state-related university, receiving public funds of $154.3 million in fiscal year 2016 that covered about 7 per cent of its operating budget while the institution retained independent control.1966 年，宾夕法尼亚州将匹大定为「州关联大学」；2016 财年该校获得 1.543 亿美元公共拨款，约占其运营预算的 7%，同时仍保有独立治理权。
• The 1970s brought a national football championship in 1976 led by the running back Tony Dorsett and later the quarterback Dan Marino, while Thomas Starzl's organ-transplantation research made Pitt a world leader in the field.1970 年代，该校橄榄球队在跑卫托尼·多塞特率领下夺得 1976 年全国冠军，此后又有四分卫丹·马里诺；同期托马斯·斯塔茨尔的器官移植研究使匹大成为该领域的世界领先者。
• Chancellor Wesley Posvar retired in 1991 after 24 years, an administration that cleared the university's 1960s debt, grew the operating budget sevenfold to 630 million and tripled the endowment to257 million.校监韦斯利·波斯瓦尔在任 24 年后于 1991 年荣休；其任内偿清了该校 1960 年代的债务，运营预算增长七倍至 6.3 亿美元，捐赠基金增至三倍、达 2.57 亿美元。
• Mark Nordenberg served as chancellor from 1995 to 2014, leading a 2-billion capital campaign and a1-billion twelve-year facilities plan, building the Petersen Events Center, expanding on-campus housing and weathering a series of bomb threats in 2012.马克·诺登伯格于 1995 至 2014 年任校监，主持 20 亿美元的筹资计划与 10 亿美元的十二年基建规划，建成彼得森活动中心、扩建校内宿舍，并应对了 2012 年的一系列炸弹威胁。
• Patrick D. Gallagher became the university's 18th chancellor on 1 August 2014, and in September 2025 the university opened a $240-million nine-storey Recreation and Wellness Center on O'Hara Street.帕特里克·D·加拉格尔于 2014 年 8 月 1 日出任该校第 18 任校监；2025 年 9 月，造价 2.4 亿美元的九层休闲与健康中心在奥哈拉街启用。

Academics

• Pitt comprises seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges, with freshman entry through the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business Administration, the Swanson School of Engineering and the School of Nursing.匹大设有十七个本科与研究生学院；新生入学主要通过迪特里希文理学院、工商管理学院、斯旺森工程学院与护理学院。
• The university awards Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Philosophy degrees together with certificate programmes and master's, professional and doctoral degrees, and runs a university-wide Outside the Classroom Curriculum as well as the David C. Frederick Honors College.该校颁授文学士、理学士与哲学学士学位，并设证书课程及硕士、专业与博士学位；还推行全校性的「课堂之外课程」，并设有大卫·C·弗雷德里克荣誉学院。
• U.S. News & World Report classifies Pitt as more selective, for the Class of 2026 it received 53,062 applications, admitted 26,077 or 49.1 per cent, enrolled 4,399 for a yield of 16.8 per cent, with a 93.4 per cent freshman retention rate and 84.3 per cent graduating within six years.《美国新闻与世界报道》将匹大列为「更具选择性」；2026 届共收到 53,062 份申请，录取 26,077 人（49.1%），实际入学 4,399 人，报到率 16.8%，新生保留率 93.4%，六年内毕业率 84.3%。
• The university adopted test-optional admissions from the autumn 2021 intake through autumn 2025, and among the 49 per cent of 2021 freshmen submitting SAT scores the middle 50 per cent scored 1250-1470, while the 16 per cent submitting ACT scores scored between 28 and 33.该校自 2021 年秋季入学起至 2025 年秋季实行「免试可选」招生；2021 年新生中提交 SAT 成绩的 49% 中间五十分位区间为 1250-1470 分，提交 ACT 成绩的 16% 为 28 至 33 分。
• The Cathedral of Learning houses 31 Nationality Rooms on its first and third floors, each decorated in the style of a different nation, a collection that anchors the university's internationally oriented teaching.学习大教堂的一层与三层设有 31 间「民族教室」，每间按不同国家的风格装饰，这一收藏是该校国际化教学传统的实体象征。
• Pitt is one of fewer than 20 American universities claiming five or more competitively designated National Resource Centers, covering Asian, European, Latin American, Russian and East European and Global studies, and its Asian Studies Center holds Confucius Institute status.匹大是美国不到 20 所能拥有五个及以上竞争性「国家资源中心」的大学之一，涵盖亚洲、欧洲、拉丁美洲、俄罗斯与东欧以及全球研究；其亚洲研究中心拥有孔子学院地位。
• The University Center for International Studies coordinates area studies, study abroad in more than a hundred countries and the faculty-led Panther Programs, while the Swanson School of Engineering runs a joint engineering institute with Sichuan University and the School of Medicine exchanges biomedical research students with Tsinghua University.国际研究中心统筹区域研究、覆盖一百多个国家的留学项目与教师带队的海外课程；斯旺森工程学院与四川大学合办工程学院，医学院则与清华大学互派生物医学研究生。
• Research at Pitt is substantial because it is a member of the Association of American Universities, and the National Science Foundation ranked it 18th among American universities for research and development expenditure in 2021 with $1.13 billion.匹大的科研体量可观：它是美国大学协会成员；美国国家科学基金会将其 2021 年研发支出列为全美大学第 18 位，金额达 11.3 亿美元。
• In fiscal year 2013 the university ranked sixth in the nation in competitive peer-reviewed National Institutes of Health funding allocations, making it a major centre of biomedical research.2013 财年，该校获得的美国国立卫生研究院竞争性同行评审经费位列全美第六，是重要的生物医学研究中心。
• Its neighbourly relationship with Carnegie Mellon University, whose buildings intermingle with Pitt's, supports the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center.匹大与卡内基梅隆大学比邻而居、建筑交错，两校共同支撑匹兹堡超级计算中心、匹兹堡生命科学温室、神经基础认知中心与匹兹堡学习科学中心。
• Pitt built the first information science school in the United States out of the Carnegie Library School of 1901, where Allen Kent taught the country's first information science course in 1963, and in 2017 the School of Information Science merged with the Department of Computer Science to form the School of Computing and Information.匹大的信息科学教育前身为 1901 年的卡内基图书馆学校，1963 年艾伦·肯特讲授全美第一门信息科学课程；2017 年该校信息科学学院与计算机科学系合并，成立计算机与信息学院。
• Professional schools include the School of Law, ranked tied 91st in the United States in 2025 by U.S. News & World Report, and the School of Social Work, whose MSW programme was ranked tied 12th in the country in 2024.专业学院包括法学院——2025 年被《美国新闻与世界报道》列为全美并列第 91 位，以及社会工作学院——其社会工作硕士项目在 2024 年列为全美并列第 12 位。
• The university has had 31 heads, styled Principal until the title was changed to Chancellor by a charter alteration in 1872 and retained since then apart from a brief switch to president under Wesley Posvar.该校历史上共有 31 位领导人；1872 年特许状修订前称「校长」，此后改称校监，仅在韦斯利·波斯瓦尔时期短暂改称「主席」。
• The University Library System holds over 5.7 million volumes, making it the 24th largest academic library in the United States and Canada, and its East Asian Library holds more than 416,500 volumes of Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean newspapers and books.匹大图书馆系统藏书超过 570 万册，为美国与加拿大第 24 大学术图书馆；其东亚图书馆收藏中、台、日、韩报刊图书逾 416,500 册。
• Pitt students and faculty have won eight Rhodes Scholarships and ten Marshall Scholarships, and since 1995 undergraduates have taken five Truman Scholarships, seven Udall Scholarships, a Churchill Scholarship, a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, 43 Goldwater Scholarships, 23 Boren Scholarships and three Mellon Humanities Fellowships.匹大学生与教师共获八项罗德奖学金与十项马歇尔奖学金；自 1995 年以来，本科生还获得五项杜鲁门奖学金、七项尤德尔奖学金、一项丘吉尔奖学金、一项盖茨剑桥奖学金、43 项戈德华特奖学金、23 项博伦奖学金与三项梅隆人文学科奖学金。
• The university runs its own academic press and, through its association with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, provides clinical training across a network of hospitals while also operating four regional campuses and the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology.该校拥有自己的学术出版社；通过与匹兹堡大学医学中心的联系，在多家医院组成的网络内提供临床培训；同时还运营四个地区校区以及皮马图宁生态实验室。

Campus

• The main campus occupies about 132 urban acres in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighbourhood, largely within the Oakland Civic Center and Schenley Farms National Historic District, and is divided into four contiguous sections, the upper, mid and lower campuses together with the medical centre complex.主校区占地约 132 英亩，位于匹兹堡奥克兰区，大部分处于「奥克兰市民中心与申利农场国家历史街区」范围内；校区分为上层、中层、下层三片相连区域以及西端医学中心建筑群。
• The campus is bounded by Darragh Street and McKee Place to the west and Bellefield Avenue and Dithridge Street to the east, with Forbes and Fifth avenues running west to east through it and a bus and shuttle service linking its sections.校区西起达拉街与麦基广场，东至贝尔菲尔德大道与迪斯里奇街，福布斯大道与第五大道自西向东贯穿其间，校内设有班车往返各区。
• The 42-storey, 535-foot Cathedral of Learning was designed by Charles Klauder, built from 1926 and dedicated in 1937, and remains the second tallest university building in the world, with a 22,000-square-foot Commons Room and 31 Nationality Rooms.42 层、535 英尺高的学习大教堂由查尔斯·克劳德设计，1926 年动工、1937 年落成，至今仍是世界第二高的教学大楼，内设 22,000 平方英尺的大礼堂与 31 间民族教室。
• Heinz Memorial Chapel, a Gothic chapel built with funds from the food manufacturer Henry John Heinz in memory of his mother Anna Margaretta Heinz, is known for its mosaic stained-glass windows, pipe organ and popularity as a wedding venue.亨氏纪念教堂是一座哥特式礼拜堂，由食品业巨头亨利·约翰·亨氏为纪念其母安娜·玛格丽塔·亨氏出资兴建，以马赛克彩绘玻璃窗与管风琴闻名，也是热门的婚礼场地。
• Four Pitt buildings are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, namely the Allegheny Observatory, the Cathedral of Learning, the Pittsburgh Athletic Association building and the Ford Motor building, and 21 Pitt buildings are contributing properties to the Schenley Farms-Oakland Civic Center Historic District.匹大有四栋建筑单独列入美国国家史迹名录——阿勒格尼天文台、学习大教堂、匹兹堡体育协会大楼与福特汽车大楼；另有 21 栋建筑为「申利农场—奥克兰市民中心历史街区」的贡献性建筑。
• The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation has designated Allegheny Observatory, Allen Hall, Alumni Hall, Bellefield Hall, the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel, Thaw Hall, Salk Hall, Schenley Quadrangle and the William Pitt Union among its Pittsburgh Historic Landmarks.匹兹堡历史与地标基金会已将阿勒格尼天文台、艾伦楼、校友楼、贝尔菲尔德楼、学习大教堂、亨氏纪念教堂、索楼、沙克楼、申利方庭与威廉·皮特会所等列为匹兹堡历史地标。
• Athletic facilities in Oakland include the Petersen Events Center, Fitzgerald Field House, Trees Hall and the Charles L. Cost Sports Center, with Acrisure Stadium and the UPMC Sports Performance Complex outside the neighbourhood, and a $240-million nine-storey Recreation and Wellness Center opened on O'Hara Street in September 2025.奥克兰区内的体育设施包括彼得森活动中心、菲茨杰拉德体育馆、特里斯体育馆与查尔斯·L·科斯特体育中心；校外的阿克瑞舒体育场与 UPMC 运动表现中心亦属该校；2025 年 9 月，造价 2.4 亿美元、九层的休闲与健康中心在奥哈拉街启用。
• Major residence halls include the three cylindrical towers of Litchfield Towers, the five halls of Schenley Quadrangle, namely Amos, Brackenridge, Bruce, Holland and McCormick, together with Forbes Hall, Bouquet Gardens, Ruskin Hall, Lothrop Hall, Panther Hall, Nordenberg Hall and Sutherland Hall.主要宿舍楼包括里奇菲尔德大楼的三座圆柱塔楼、申利方庭的五栋宿舍（阿莫斯、布雷肯里奇、布鲁斯、霍兰与麦考密克），以及福布斯楼、布凯花园、拉斯金楼、洛斯罗普楼、黑豹楼、诺登伯格楼与萨瑟兰楼。
• The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center occupies much of the western campus with UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Montefiore, Magee-Womens Hospital, the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, the Eye and Ear Institute and Forbes Tower, and is the largest non-government employer in Pennsylvania.匹兹堡大学医学中心占据校区西侧大部，包括 UPMC 长老会医院、UPMC 蒙特菲奥里医院、麦吉妇产医院、西部精神病学研究所与诊所、眼耳研究所以及福布斯大楼，是宾夕法尼亚州最大的非政府雇主。
• The university also maintains four regional campuses at Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville, offering reduced tuition and, for Pennsylvania residents with household incomes at or below $75,000, tuition-free education.该校还设有布拉德福德、格林斯堡、约翰斯敦与泰特斯维尔四个地区校区，学费较低；家庭年收入不超过 75,000 美元的宾州居民可免费就读。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the University of Pittsburgh is placed joint 279th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，匹兹堡大学位列世界并列第 279 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it 166th in the world.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为世界第 166 位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 57th in the world.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 57 位。
• In the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it appears in the 101-150 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，其位列 101-150 区间。
• In its 2025 rankings U.S. News & World Report placed Pitt tied 69th of 436 national universities, the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education world ranking put it 141st and the Center for World University Rankings placed it 75th worldwide in 2024.在 2025 年榜单中，《美国新闻与世界报道》将匹大列为全美 436 所全国性大学并列第 69 位；《华尔街日报》与泰晤士高等教育的世界排名将其列为第 141 位；世界大学排名中心 2024 年将其列为全球第 75 位。
• Pitt has repeatedly been called a Public Ivy, a term coined by Richard Moll in his 1985 book, and in 2025 Forbes listed it among its twenty New Ivies.匹大屡被视为「公立常春藤」，该词由理查德·莫尔在 1985 年的著作中提出；2025 年《福布斯》将其列入二十所「新常春藤」之列。
• Its philosophy department was ranked first in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject every year from 2016 to 2019, and the department has been the home of the Pittsburgh School of analytic philosophy founded by Wilfrid Sellars.该校哲学系在 2016 至 2019 年的 QS 世界大学学科排名中连年位列世界第一，也是威尔弗里德·塞拉斯所创分析哲学「匹兹堡学派」的大本营。
• OpenAlex credits the University of Pittsburgh with 377,541 works and 41,235,642 citations, and the university ranked 25th worldwide for the impact of its scientific publications in the 2016 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities.OpenAlex 收录匹兹堡大学 377,541 篇成果与 41,235,642 次引用；在 2016 年世界大学科研论文表现排名中，该校科研成果影响力列全球第 25 位。
• Among its honours the university counts ten Nobel laureates, 34 National Medal of Science recipients, six Pulitzer Prize winners, three MacArthur Fellows and two Academy Award winners among faculty and alumni.该校教师与校友中获得十项诺贝尔奖、34 枚美国国家科学奖章、六项普利策奖、三项麦克阿瑟奖与两项奥斯卡金像奖。
• In the 2009 Saviors of Our Cities ranking Pitt was placed second overall and first among public universities as a Best Neighbor, reflecting annual community spending of more than $1.7 billion and support for nearly 33,800 jobs in Allegheny County.在 2009 年「城市拯救者」排名中，匹大综合位列第二、并居公立大学之首，获评「最佳邻居」；该校每年在本地社区支出逾 17 亿美元，支撑阿勒格尼县近 33,800 个就业岗位。
• Pitt's research programme alone brings more than $822 million into the region each year and supports some 23,100 local jobs, while the university ranked sixth in the number of startups spawned by its researchers' technologies.仅该校的科研项目每年即为本地区带来逾 8.22 亿美元，并支撑约 23,100 个本地岗位；在依托本校技术创立的初创企业数量上，匹大位列第六。

Student life

• Students rub the nose of the Millennium Panther outside the William Pitt Union before examinations and step on the former home plate of Forbes Field embedded in the floor of Posvar Hall for good luck, while the Omicron Delta Kappa Walk is engraved with the names of Senior of the Year award winners.考试前，学生会抚摸威廉·皮特会所外的「千禧黑豹」雕像鼻子，并踩踏波斯瓦楼地面镶嵌的福布斯球场本垒板以求好运；奥米克戎德尔塔卡帕步道则镌刻着历届「年度最佳毕业生」的名字。
• Annual events include Fall Fest and Bigelow Bash on the lawn between the William Pitt Union and the Cathedral of Learning, the Honors Convocation, the Panther Sendoff reception and the Nationality Rooms Open House held on a Sunday in early December.年度活动包括威廉·皮特会所与学习大教堂之间草坪上的「秋日节」与「比奇洛嘉年华」、荣誉表彰大会、「黑豹送行会」，以及每年 12 月上旬某个周日举行的「民族教室开放日」。
• Athletics traditions include Victory Lights, when golden floodlights illuminate the top of the Cathedral of Learning after football victories, the annual bonfire and pep rally, the Homecoming fireworks and laser display, and the Varsity Walk carved each year since 1950.体育传统包括「胜利之光」——橄榄球获胜后金色泛光灯照亮学习大教堂塔顶；还有年度篝火与助威集会、校友返校日的烟火与激光表演，以及自 1950 年起每年刻名的校队步道。
• There are over 40 social fraternities and sororities on campus, the oldest men's fraternity Phi Gamma Delta dating from 1863 and the oldest women's group Kappa Alpha Theta from 1915, alongside the medical fraternity Phi Beta Pi of 1891 and the dental fraternity Psi Omega of 1897.校内有 40 余个社交性兄弟会与姐妹会，最早的男性兄弟会 Phi Gamma Delta 始于 1863 年，最早的女性组织 Kappa Alpha Theta 始于 1915 年；另有 1891 年的医学兄弟会 Phi Beta Pi 与 1897 年的牙科兄弟会 Psi Omega。
• The university hosts over 350 student clubs and organisations, and the Student Government Board allocates part of the student activities fee to more than 500 organisations, while the Oakland Zoo cheering section has over 2,000 members.该校有 350 多个学生社团与组织；学生自治委员会将部分学生活动费分配给 500 多个组织；「奥克兰动物园」助威团成员超过 2,000 人。
• Student media include The Pitt News, founded in 1908, the radio station WPTS-FM at 92.1 MHz, the closed-circuit television station UPTV, the law news service Jurist and the late-night show Pitt Tonight, which premiered on 14 December 2015.学生媒体包括 1908 年创刊的《匹兹堡新闻》、92.1 兆赫的 WPTS-FM 电台、闭路电视台 UPTV、法律新闻服务 Jurist，以及 2015 年 12 月 14 日首播的深夜节目《匹兹堡今夜》。
• Musical groups include the Pitt Men's Glee Club, founded in 1890 as the oldest extracurricular club on campus, the Women's Choral Ensemble of 1927, the Heinz Chapel Choir, the a cappella Pitt Pendulums of 1996 and the University Gamelan established in 1995.音乐团体包括 1890 年创立、校内历史最久的课外社团男声合唱团，1927 年的女声合唱团，亨氏教堂合唱团，1996 年成立的无伴奏合唱团 Pitt Pendulums，以及 1995 年设立的大学甘美兰乐团。
• Pitt Arts, founded in 1997, gives undergraduates free tickets, transport and receptions for arts events and free admission with a Pitt ID to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Senator John Heinz History Center, Phipps Conservatory, Mattress Factory and the Andy Warhol Museum.1997 年创立的「匹大艺术」为本科生提供艺术活动的免费门票、交通与招待会，并凭学生证免费参观卡内基艺术博物馆、卡内基自然历史博物馆、约翰·海因茨参议员历史中心、菲普斯温室、床垫工厂与安迪·沃霍尔博物馆。
• The Pitt Alumni Association, founded in 1866, supports over 330,000 living alumni through more than 50 regional Pitt Clubs worldwide, and many upperclassmen choose to live off campus in the nearby South Oakland neighbourhood.1866 年成立的匹大校友会通过遍布全球的 50 多个地区校友分会联系逾 33 万名在世校友；许多高年级学生则选择住在校外的南奥克兰一带。

Notable people

• Hugh Henry Brackenridge, the founder who obtained the academy's charter in 1787, gave the institution the beginnings that make it the oldest continuously chartered college west of the Allegheny Mountains.休·亨利·布雷肯里奇于 1787 年为学院取得特许状，其开创之功使该校成为阿勒格尼山脉以西历史最悠久的持续立案院校。
• Samuel Pierpont Langley, who directed the Allegheny Observatory from 1867 and taught astronomy and physics until 1891, went on to serve as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.塞缪尔·皮尔庞特·兰利自 1867 年起主持阿勒格尼天文台并教授天文学与物理学至 1891 年，后出任史密森学会会长。
• The industrialists Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse joined the board of trustees in 1895, and Andrew Mellon, later U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and a co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University, had joined in 1894.实业家安德鲁·卡内基与乔治·威斯汀豪斯于 1895 年加入董事会；后任美国财政部长并参与创办卡内基梅隆大学的安德鲁·梅隆则于 1894 年入选。
• Jonas Salk, who set up the university's Virus Research Lab, developed the first effective polio vaccine there, announced as effective in 1955.约纳斯·沙克在该校建立病毒研究实验室，并在此研制出首个有效的脊髓灰质炎疫苗，1955 年宣布有效。
• Thomas Starzl, professor of surgery and known as the father of organ transplantation, conducted research that made Pitt a world leader in transplantation during the 1980s.外科教授、被誉为「器官移植之父」的托马斯·斯塔茨尔的研究，使匹大在 1980 年代成为器官移植领域的世界领先者。
• Three Pitt alumni have won the Nobel Prize, including Paul Lauterbur of 1962 for magnetic resonance imaging, Philip Hench of 1920 for the discovery of cortisone and Wangari Maathai of 1966 for founding the Green Belt Movement.三位匹大校友获得诺贝尔奖：因磁共振成像获奖的保罗·劳特伯（1962 届）、因发现可的松获奖的菲利普·亨奇（1920 届），以及创办绿带运动的旺加里·马塔伊（1966 届）。
• Michael Chabon of 1984 won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Vladimir Zworykin of 1926 is regarded as the father of television, and Herbert Boyer of 1963 co-founded Genentech and pioneered biotechnology.迈克尔·查邦（1984 届）获普利策小说奖；弗拉基米尔·佐沃金（1926 届）被视为「电视之父」；赫伯特·博耶（1963 届）参与创办基因泰克，是生物技术先驱。
• Dan Marino of 1983, Mike Ditka of 1961 and Tony Dorsett of 1977 are inductees of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, while John Woodruff of 1939 and Roger Kingdom of 2002 won Olympic gold medals.丹·马里诺（1983 届）、迈克·迪特卡（1961 届）与托尼·多塞特（1977 届）入选职业橄榄球名人堂；约翰·伍德拉夫（1939 届）与罗杰·金登（2002 届）则夺得奥运金牌。
• Among the philosophers associated with the university are Wilfrid Sellars, founder of the Pittsburgh School, and present or former faculty John McDowell, Robert Brandom and Nicholas Rescher.与该校相关的哲学家包括「匹兹堡学派」创始人威尔弗里德·塞拉斯，以及约翰·麦克道尔、罗伯特·布兰顿与尼古拉斯·雷舍尔等在职或曾任教师。
• The Chinese-American surgeon Wei-Ping Andrew Lee performed the first double hand transplant in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in May 2009.华裔美国外科医生李为平于 2009 年 5 月在匹兹堡大学医学中心完成美国首例双手移植手术。