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FORTUNE magazine ranked Duquesne University #5 for Best Online Master’s in Nursing (MSN) Program for 2022. Duquesne ranked #3 in the Northeast in a recent workforce analysis focused on R2 institutions producing the most high-earning female alumni under 40 in the United States. For 2022, Niche.com ranked Duquesne at No.28 among its Best Catholic Colleges in America, and No.4 in Pennsylvania. Additionally, Niche gave Duquesne an A+ in Best College Locations, an A for Value and an overall A- among colleges and universities in the nation. Money Magazine recognized Duquesne on its Best Colleges for Your Money list. Duquesne University (#6) and the School of Nursing achieved Top 10, gold-level rankings as both a Military Friendly® and Military Spouse Friendly® School for 2022-23. Duquesne is the first university in the nation to offer combined biomedical engineering and nursing dual degree (BS-BSN). Also, Duquesne is the first university in the nation to offer an online Ph.D. in nursing (1997) and first in Pennsylvania to grant a BSN degree (1937).

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Is Duquesne a prestigious school?

Duquesne University’s ranking in the 2022-2023 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #151.
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Is Duquesne University a good university?

Duquesne University Rankings – Duquesne University is ranked #151 out of 443 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more about how we rank schools,
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Is Duquesne University liberal or conservative?

The room has the feel of a college student’s pad at precisely the moment a once-small house party explodes into a door-busting all-night rager. An industrial-sized sink overflows with ice and cans of Miller High Life, which people rip from the plastic rings and pass along to others in the buzzing crowd. Except this isn’t someone’s living room; it’s a recording studio. And these aren’t simply students looking for the nearest keg-stand. They’re an audience. On a rainy October night, this crowd has gathered at Lawrenceville’s Blackberry Studios to create the real-life laugh track for local comedian Mo Mozuch, who is recording his first professional standup album, Blue Humor and Other Ruminations, Some stand, milling around, while others wait on chairs, the piano bench and the floor. After warm-up sets from another standup comic and a guitar-strumming purveyor of collegiate comedy songs, the engineer hits “record” and Mozuch saunters up to the mic. And things immediately get filthy. “I lo-ve to fuck fat chicks,” Mozuch announces, and the well-lubricated crowd lets out a half-horrified cheer. “Lemme clarify: I have learned to love to fuck fat chicks – through a severe lack of options.” With a curly mop of sandy hair, a whispy beard and baggy clothes, the 24-year-old Mozuch gives the vague impression of slovenliness, except for his eyes, which dart around the room from behind wire glasses, gauging the response to each punchline. In his words, he looks “like Michael Moore.” But he’s also the winner of Esquire ‘s “2007 Grooming Awards.” “I got high and wrote the essay,” he says later. “I made two or three Communist jokes in a 200-word essay about baby shampoo.” (The prize was $500 worth of grooming products.) Over the next half-hour, Mozuch hammers home a few key points: He’s smart, funny, overweight and has a small penis – and he wants the world to know. But just when you think it might sound a bit too Rodney Dangerfield, Mozuch leavens the material with a reference to Franz Kafka or Thomas Jefferson. The crowd, meanwhile, is composed largely of current and former students at Duquesne University, where Mozuch also recently finished his master’s degree in journalism, and where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Duke, Although Duquesne probably wouldn’t put them in a brochure, the local university has launched the careers of several Pittsburgh comedians, including Mozuch, Gab Bonesso, Jesse Joyce and newcomer T. Jones. All four say that attending a private liberal-arts university has been helpful in developing material. But they’ve all faced spiraling tuition costs, which will have them paying off school loans for years. And of course their career choice can itself sound like the punch line to a joke about the kind of job you can get with a degree in, say, philosophy. No wonder they grapple with this costly paradox by writing it into their routines. Over kielbasa and Straub in the back room of Gooski’s, Mozuch – who describes himself as “fourth-generation Polish Hill” – says he hopes the Blue Humor CD will help him get more bookings at colleges and clubs. “I invited all my friends and people I knew, bought the booze – gave myself a stacked deck!” he says. But the world may need to wait a bit for the final results, which he plans to release with cover art based on one of Picasso’s “blue period” paintings (“a joke for me,” he says). There’s the money, for one thing. “Whenever I get the money together to print everything myself is when I’m gonna do it.” While Mozuch has a master’s in journalism, he doesn’t have a writing job. He’s not even interested in one. “As far as being a general-assignment reporter, covering a beat, I don’t have any aspirations to do that,” he says. But he does hope his skills as a copy-editor and fact-checker will help support him when he moves to New York in a year or so. For now, he’s working a couple of food-service jobs to make ends meet, when he’s not doing standup gigs everywhere and anywhere he can. Mozuch takes his act from hipster hangouts like Brillobox to the Waterfront’s Improv club, as well as any little blue-collar bar with a mic. “There aren’t a whole lot around Pittsburgh, so it’s $20 here, $30 there,” he says. One of the rooms Mozuch has been working lately is the Shadow Lounge, an East Liberty music venue and hub for hip-hop culture, where he co-hosts a monthly comedy night with T. Jones, who’s currently a junior at Duquesne, majoring in philosophy. At age 21, Jones is slightly bemused by his job prospects in the real world. “I don’t wanna have a philosophy major working at McDonald’s, and be the smartest dude in the drive-thru, quoting Socrates,” he jokes. “‘The unexamined life is not worth living – do you want fries with that?'” But Jones seems to have a pretty good understanding of the networking and business sides of being a comedian in Pittsburgh – he’s working on his own CD/DVD, called Educated and Black, because “you gotta have something to sell after shows, you have to have that hustle.” Even so, he says, “t’s just hard to get people to come out in Pittsburgh and support comedy.” Mozuch estimates the city’s current roster of standup comics at around 50. And like any scene, Pittsburgh’s local comedy scene has its different niches. Some comics work on material that appeals to a variety of audiences, hoping that will pay off in the long run with a national audience. Others go for easier hometown laughs by riffing on local idiosyncrasies, like Pittsburghese and Steelers jokes. And like any scene, comedians like to work with people they know. One pack of aspiring comics, including Mozuch and Jones, frequents the Improv; another works primarily at the Funny Bone in Station Square. Some, like Billy Elmer, who Mozuch describes as “The Godfather,” tour regionally. “And there’s the so-called ‘underground scene,'” says Mozuch. “Which is Gab.” That would be Gab Bonesso, who has sought to promote an alternative comedy scene in Pittsburgh since graduating from Duquesne in 2001 with a degree in theater. “I’d say underground comedy is sort of what they tried to do with the original Saturday Night Live : changing comedy, doing it different,” she says of the style she embraces. “It’s going away from the normal style and being more alternative, or more edgy, or just anything that’s not being done elsewhere.” With her cropped hair and hoodie, Bonesso looks more like an indie rocker than a nightclub comic. Her material, meanwhile, often promotes progressive gender politics: She recently concluded her opening set at Club Café by saying, “and yes, I have a vagina, and we’ll be talking more about that later.” Bonesso, who grew up in Robinson Township, didn’t start doing standup until after she graduated from Duquesne, signing up for a 2002 Funny Bone contest on a whim and writing the jokes on the way to the club. “Someone had told me they’d done the contest the week earlier, and they were like ‘just talk about sex and drugs and you’re golden,’ so I wrote a bunch of blowjob jokes, like ‘this will be hysterical!'” Apparently the audience thought so, too – she made it to the finals. But her relationship with the mainstream club didn’t last long. More veteran comics, she said, told her, “‘You’re doing material about stuff nobody cares about. People don’t care about gay rights, and you’re doing abortion bits and that’s just wrong.’ And I was like ‘OK, thanks for the tip, but I don’t wanna do the PennDOT jokes.'” Sitting at a table in the South Side’s Starbucks – “it’s clean,” says Bonesso, poking fun at her OCD tendencies – she’s pleased to have recently reopened another venue for underground comedy, Club Café. It was there that she hosted the Wednesday night Ha-Ha comedy series from 2003-2004, until a change in management ended the arrangement. Now, with another such change, she’s back on the schedule, with some slight differences. “In the old days, it was a free show, and we’d pass the hat,” Bonesso says. “But now we have to charge $7 and you have to pay for the room, so it’s kinda taken underground feel out of it.” Still, “we just desperately need an open-mic night that isn’t at the Funny Bone. ‘Cause there is nothing else out there.” Lately, she’s also been hosting a night at Brillobox in Bloomfield, and doing one-offs like the 2005 New York City Underground Comedy festival, and benefits for Food Not Bombs, in Johnstown. “It was just a bunch of high school kids, and they were all anti-war,” Bonesso says of last year’s event. “I did some of the edgiest stuff I’ve ever done for these kids, because I knew I could get away with it. They were all goth kids. I was like, ‘Yeah, I know you guys are totally the kind of people who go kill your classmates, and sometimes they deserve it!’ and they were like ‘Yeah!’ I can’t do that at First Night.” While Bonesso featured Mozuch and Jones on her Brillobox showcases early on, the three have different tastes in comedy and different agendas – even a bit of professional competitive tension. Differences aside, all three share the belief that Pittsburgh’s limited outlets for comedy make it essential for them to eventually relocate to New York. And of course, a connection to their alma mater. To a large extent, Bonesso praises the education she got at Duquesne. While the curriculum focused on the liberal arts, the students as a whole were fairly conservative – and so in the classroom and outside of it, Bonesso was “challenged by belief systems different from my own” on a daily basis. Though she was raised Catholic, her family took a progressive attitude toward faith, and Bonesso says she didn’t fully realize how progressive she was until she began attending school in “a very conservative setting.” Still, she says, in the long run attending Duquesne was a “huge mistake.” She’s still paying off her student loans, which are a major obstacle between her and the New York stages. “My parents didn’t pay for – it was just bad decision-making on my part,” she says. With a year currently costing an average of $34,246 (which includes tuition, fees, room and board, and expenses), Duquesne’s sticker price is average for private universities, but roughly triple what the Princeton Review says you can expect to pay at a public university. Such costs, as much as any ideology, tend to make students at private schools “pragmatic,” the word Frank Thornton uses to sum up Duquesne’s ethos. Thornton just retired this past September from the journalism and multimedia arts program after a 40-year career at Duquesne; he now lives in Murrysville. During the 1970s, he ran the school’s theater program. He’s also familiar with Mozuch (“a very bright kid”) from his time as editor of The Duke, and was Bonesso’s unofficial mentor. “Duquesne has a system where you don’t literally have a mentor,” Thornton says. “But you kinda take someone under your wing or something, and pretty soon you wind up having them in a lot of your classes, and you give them more advice, and that’s kind of where we were.” He praises Bonesso’s acting skills, her scrappy political stance, and frequently enjoyed the talk radio show on 93.7 The Zone produced by Bonesso featuring John McIntire (a CP columnist who frequently performs standup at the events Bonesso organizes). “Gabi and I probably share a political philosophy; I share it with McIntire, too,” he says. “Frankly, I didn’t know she was that good, until I heard,” You’d expect a person in Thornton’s position to take some credit for those comedians making their way in the world – to see their success as a result of opportunities he helped provide. But on one level, Thornton feels the exact opposite: If Mozuch and the others succeed, he says, “I think it’s because there’s a lack of opportunity to do really good things onstage” on campus. Thornton has written a history of the embattled theater program, which has been passed around from department to department. While Duquesne’s theater program has existed since 1889, “it has been like a foster child. t just doesn’t draw that much attention to itself. “Duquesne is essentially a pragmatic, basically conservative school, I think in many respects, because it costs so much,” Thornton says. “Which means you’re going to have more Republicans’ kids, and they’re going to be thinking more in very pragmatic-slash-conservative ways. It’s a good school of business, a great school of pharmacy, and a lot of those very nuts-and-bolts kind of majors.” This pragmatism, he says, fairly typical of costly private schools, is a reflection of “the times – it’s not necessarily the university.” During his four decades of teaching, Thornton says, people’s attitudes toward education have become more mercenary: “Among the many American dreams is to put your kids through college, and put them through a good one, because it’s an investment like whatever you might buy on Wall Street.” As a result, he sees the Duquesne students of today as “nice kids,” most of whom tend to “come from a pampered environment, and they’re expected to go back to that.” For the rest, what can you do in the face of a degree in, say, English, and a $30,000 debt except laugh? Fortunately, says Thornton, some of the things stressed in a liberal arts program – like the insights into human nature offered by the lessons of literature, philosophy and history – are the very elements that cause audiences to award high praise to a comedian’s skill: “That is so true!” “I’m almost medieval in my belief in the flexibility of a person who has a liberal arts degree,” Thornton says. “You pull it out of your head – or wherever. But if you don’t have that kind of a breadth, you don’t survive.” Which is perhaps all the more reason why Thornton’s hat is off to people like Mozuch and Bonesso for facing crowds armed only with a microphone and their wits – something he says, “I wouldn’t have the stones to do.” Attending Duquesne, says Bonesso, “both helped and hurt.” But one thing’s certain, she says: “Going through that helps you foster material.” Behind the stage in the large ballroom in Duquesne’s student union is a floor-to-ceiling cross made of stained glass. About half the seats arranged before it are filled with politely attentive students, including one sporting a hoodie with the slogan: “She’s a child – not a choice.” But flanking the stage are unlit tiki torches and garish clusters of balloons intended to represent palm trees, part of the evening’s theme, “A Night in the Tropics.” And while nothing says “tropics” like Uptown in late February, Jesse Joyce is using his nervy, clipped delivery to turn up the heat. The lanky 29-year-old peers out at the assembled students with his enormous eyes – his “squirrelly coke eyes,” as he calls them – and tells a joke about falling for his nurse while hospitalized. “I’ve got some advice for any single guys who might be in the room. For whatever reason, if you have to go in for surgery, they tend to put a lot of hot chicks involved with the surgery process. There’s always hot surgical interns running around getting you water and making sure you pee. And you’re gonna try to hit on them, and that’s not gonna work at all. Because you’re lying half-naked on a table with a paper napkin over your dick. I don’t even know what I was thinking, like ‘Maybe they’ll write their number on my dick napkin!'” As the students applaud, Joyce gestures to a man in the front row. “And yes, I just said ‘dick napkin’ in front of a priest I know.” Joyce, who’s sporting his Duquesne class ring, is performing at his alma mater for the first time since he graduated in 2000 with a degree in art history. When he left for New York City after college, he vowed not to return to the school’s stage until he’d made a name for himself. Tonight, he seems a bit nonplussed at the initially thin crowd, but perhaps he’s just chafing a bit from the “PG-13” rating the student organizer has asked him to observe. It’s an odd request, perhaps, since the audience is made up of college students who can see R-rated movies without adult supervision. But Joyce agrees to tone down the language a bit; there are some “really great blowjob jokes” he’s had to cut, he says later. But he’s still enjoying the victory lap – and well he should. He’s already done what Mozuch and Bonesso hope to do: He’s honed his skills in New York’s numerous standup clubs, where “you’re playing with guys who are better than you.” Joyce has earned numerous radio and television credits, including Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham series, and was a contributing writer for the station’s Flavor Flav roast. He’s toured clubs, military bases and college campuses nationwide; last year, he toured Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and more with a group called “Comics on Duty.” While Joyce had been interested in comedy from an early age, it wasn’t until 1998 that he first performed, opening for his friends in local modern-rock band Mercury. The arrangement allowed him to do half-hour sets – an unheard-of luxury for new comedians. From there, he did as many on-campus events as he could, sometimes opening for touring comics on the same stage he’s now headlining. “I just started making my own opportunities,” he says. But he knew there was something larger waiting out there for him. “I knew the Funny Bone existed, but I wasn’t old enough,” he says. But as soon as he could, Joyce took a job as a bar-back at the club, taking the stage at open mics and to fill time when a headliner was running late. It’s been a hard-won success in many ways. When he got to New York, “I was broke – a broke fucking shitty waiter at Planet Hollywood.” While he’s proud to have paid off his debts two years ago, by doing comedy, and especially the occasional corporate gig, he remembers the times when Visa called him every day. And on stage, he uses such memories as the basis for material college students can relate to. Some of his biggest laughs, in fact, come from his digs at the cost of a Duquesne education. “They told me how much it costs to go here now – holy shit!” he exclaims. “It was $20,000 a year” when he attended. “I don’t know $80,000 worth of shit. “I was trying to figure out what they were spending my money on. I found out in my senior year of college, they spent $180,000 on a salad bar. It’s really nice, but it just has salad, For 180 grand, you can buy a really nice house, and just fill it with lettuce. For $180,000, you can buy five Filipino boys and a Salad Shooter.” After the show, Joyce hawks his CDs and signs autographs, then makes his way to a dressing room at the top floor of the union, stepping outside onto a balcony that looks out over the campus. In between pulls on his Marlboro Light, he reflects on how his Duquesne education prepared him for a comedy career. “You have to be kind of an arrogant person to do this,” he says, and Duquesne students, self-selected by the cost of a private education, “are a bunch of little go-getters.” His own drive is in part a legacy from his parents, two Duquesne grads who as students helped raise money that essentially saved the school from going under in the early 1970s. “I grew up knowing all my life that I could do whatever I wanted to, if I worked hard,” Joyce says. The prospect of earning an art history degree, then heading off to a comedy career doesn’t appear an insurmountable obstacle to him, or even odd. “I wouldn’t have changed anything.” But Joyce has the benefit of hindsight. The long-term value of a liberal arts education can be less apparent to an aspiring comedian who’s still in the middle of it – even for a go-getter like Duquesne junior T. Jones. Onstage at the Improv, Jones grasps the mic and knocks the end of it repeatedly against his forehead, using the obvious phallus to obscenely mime just exactly what he thinks Duquesne’s high tuition should entitle him to do to a professor. Although he’s at the Waterfront instead of the student union, his digs at Duquesne are good for plenty of laughs – the university is just a lens to explore what’s funny about colleges in general. “I was lied to my whole life about college, told they breed the best kind of people, like doctors, lawyers,” he says from the stage. “But there’s really only four categories you can be: in-telligent, in debt, alcoholic or a whore.” The Penn Hills native originally attended Alabama A&M, but when a knee injury ended his football career there, he decided to move back and get a philosophy degree from Duquesne. But that was before his comedy act began to take off. Now Jones wants to switch to communications, which he thinks might be more helpful for his comedy career. But he isn’t sure he’ll attend a private university to do it. “You can’t major in standup in college,” he says. “You can’t teach it. You have to pay your dues, work your way up, then boom – then one day you’ll make it. If you work hard enough.” Still, standup comedy may be one of the paying gigs you can get with a philosophy degree. “I wanna be able to click in there and bring the truth out, the reality, and make people laugh with philosophy,” says Jones. “Every time that bit’s really killing and they’re clapping, there’s some truth in there.” It’s a truth that can resonate even with Duquesne’s employees. As Jones recounts with pride, after opening for a headliner at the Improv, “this dude comes up to me like, ‘I’m a professor at Duquesne, man! Dude, that was funny!'” Jesse Joyce “> T. Jones “> Mo Mozuch “> Gab Bonesso “>
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Why choose Duquesne University?

Enroll in a University with High Rankings, Student Satisfaction and Success – Duquesne’s programs have won praise for innovation and continued high quality including accolades as a ” first-tier university,” ” best value,” and ” best graduate school,”
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What is the most prestigious school in the United States?

Harvard University This Ivy League school is the oldest higher education institution in the country and has the largest endowment of any school in the world. Harvard University is a private institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside of Boston.
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Is Duquesne University in a safe neighborhood?

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What is the reputation of University of Pittsburgh?

University of Pittsburgh Rankings – University of Pittsburgh is ranked #62 out of 443 National Universities. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence. Read more about how we rank schools,
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What is the number 1 college in Pennsylvania?

1. University of Pennsylvania – The University of Pennsylvania (Penn, or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Its founding date is estimated to be 1740, and the institution is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered prior to the US Declaration of Independence.

Benjamin Franklin, Penn’s founder and first president, advocated an educational programme that trained leaders in commerce, government and public service, similar to a modern liberal arts curriculum. UPenn has now expanded into a 302-acre campus with 200 buildings. It has many notable “first” landmarks on campus, including the country’s first students’ union, double-decker college football stadium, and the world’s first collegiate business school – the Wharton School.

Penn has affiliations with more than 25 Nobel laureates, including physicist Raymond Davis Jr and economist Lawrence Klein, and numerous heads of state including president of the United States William Henry Harrison, while Nnamdi Azikiwe, former president of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah, former prime minister and president of Ghana, both gained multiple degrees from the institution.
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Is Duquesne a Nike school?

BSN SPORTS Nike Flash Store Flyer PITTSBURGH – Director of Athletics Dave Harper announced today that Nike will be the official apparel provider and BSN SPORTS the official distributor for the Department of Athletics beginning with the fall sports season.

• The seven-year partnership includes head-to-toe outfitting of over 430 student-athletes and staff across Duquesne’s 17 varsity sports.
• We are extremely excited and blessed to be partnering with Nike this coming fall,” said Harper.
• Nike provides a comprehensive support platform to help our student-athletes and coaches as they strive to compete for championships.

From the dynamic apparel, to recruiting, to positioning the Dukes brand in the marketplace, this partnership is a key strategic tool as we implement a robust and comprehensive strategy for Duquesne athletics. Our entire department is extremely appreciative to Nike for helping us chase our dreams.” Nike, the exclusive apparel provider for a number of major NCAA Division I universities, is the world’s largest supplier of footwear and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of $30 billion in 2015.

1. Outside of its intercollegiate clients, Nike boasts a number of the world’s top athletes and organizations among its roster of talent, including all 32 NFL teams, the NBA (starting in 2017-18), the U.S.
2. Men’s National Team (soccer), the USA National Team (men’s basketball), and top athletes including basketball superstars LeBron James and Kevin Durant, tennis stars Roger Federer and Serena Williams as well as men’s and women’s soccer standouts Cristiano Ronaldo and Alex Morgan.

“I am excited to begin this partnership with Duquesne University athletics,” said Senior Director of NIKE Basketball Sports Marketing Eric Lautenbach. “We look forward to seeing the Nike swoosh on Duquesne student-athletes and coaches as they compete on the courts and fields of play.

We also look forward to continuing our long standing relationship with coach Dambrot as he takes over Dukes basketball and brings his fantastic coaching and leadership skills to Duquesne.” Founded in 1972 as a factory-direct equipment company, BSN SPORTS has grown to become the largest distributor of team sports apparel and equipment in the United States.

“The partnership agreement between Duquesne University, BSN SPORTS and Nike is a great example of the value of athletics in a school system,” said Terry Babilla, BSN SPORTS President. “This strategic partnership provides the finest apparel and products to the Duquesne University athletic teams and benefits each student athlete representing the Duquesne community on the athletic field or court.

• We are proud to be their partner and pleased that we can elevate the student-athlete experience.” In conjunction with today’s announcement, BSN SPORTS has created a “flash store” that is offering Duquesne Nike apparel online at by clicking here,
• Dukes Nike merchandise will be available on the site from April 20-30.

What Duquesne coaches are saying, “The Nike name has great appeal among recruits – it is clearly the brand they want to wear and be associated with. Nike has earned its reputation as the world’s premier athletics apparel and shoe company and its great to have a partnership with them.

From first-hand experience, I can ensure that the association is going to be great for Duquesne athletics.” “Nike is the preeminent industry leader in innovative technology for high-level athletes. The quality of engineering and brand positioning of Nike to the buzz surrounding their shoes, gear and other equipment is important when recruiting at the highest level.

The Duquesne women’s basketball team is very excited to be wearing the Nike swoosh.” – Head Women’s Basketball Coach Dan Burt “The Nike swoosh is one of the iconic logos in all of sports. To have Duquesne associated with the industry leader in athletics apparel will benefit our program in many ways.
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How Catholic is Duquesne University?

Duquesne University 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, profound concern for moral and spiritual values, maintaining an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity, and service to the Church, the community, the nation, and the world.
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What is special about University of Pittsburgh?

University of Pittsburgh is a public institution that was founded in 1787. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 19,980 (fall 2021), its setting is urban, and the campus size is 145 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Pittsburgh’s ranking in the 2022-2023 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #62.

• Its in-state tuition and fees are $19,760; out-of-state tuition and fees are $36,000.
• Located in the Oakland neighborhood, Pitt’s campus is a 3-mile trip from bustling downtown Pittsburgh.
• The city is home to powerhouse professional sports teams, such as the Steelers and Penguins, and dozens of unique cultural centers, like the Andy Warhol Museum and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

Pitt students get free admission to these and other select museums throughout the school year. Because Pittsburgh is bordered by three rivers, kayaking, sailing and fishing opportunities are plentiful. City buses stop every 10 to 15 minutes on campus, and students can ride public transportation into the city for free with school ID.

Freshmen do not have to live on campus. Pitt has a sizable Greek community of nearly 40 fraternities and sororities. Students in Arts and Sciences majors can earn hands-on credits in internships, research and teaching with the help of the university’s Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.

The Pittsburgh Panthers sports teams compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference. Pitt students are notorious for their avid support at sporting events, particularly for forming a riotous cheering section known as the Oakland Zoo at basketball games.

• Students who attend the most home sporting events get priority purchasing when game tickets are in high demand through the school’s Loyalty Points system.
• The university earns national accolades for its highly ranked School of Medicine, School of Education and Swanson School of Engineering,
• The School of Medicine is particularly well regarded for its research, working in conjunction with the highly ranked University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the institution receives one of the highest amounts of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The university is well known for its focus on going green, too. Students and faculty work toward environmentally friendly neighborhood solutions at the school’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. There are notable University of Pittsburgh alumni in almost every professional sector; some are famed football personalities Mike Ditka and Dan Marino; former U.S.

Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon; and Roscoe Robinson Jr., the first African-American four-star general in the U.S. Army. University of Pittsburgh is a public institution that was founded in 1787. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 19,980 (fall 2021), its setting is urban, and the campus size is 145 acres.

It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of Pittsburgh’s ranking in the 2022-2023 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #62. Its in-state tuition and fees are $19,760; out-of-state tuition and fees are $36,000. Located in the Oakland neighborhood, Pitt’s campus is a 3-mile trip from bustling downtown Pittsburgh.

The city is home to powerhouse professional sports teams, such as the Steelers and Penguins, and dozens of unique cultural centers, like the Andy Warhol Museum and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Pitt students get free admission to these and other select museums throughout the school year.

Because Pittsburgh is bordered by three rivers, kayaking, sailing and fishing opportunities are plentiful. City buses stop every 10 to 15 minutes on campus, and students can ride public transportation into the city for free with school ID. Freshmen do not have to live on campus.

• Pitt has a sizable Greek community of nearly 40 fraternities and sororities.
• Students in Arts and Sciences majors can earn hands-on credits in internships, research and teaching with the help of the university’s Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.
• The Pittsburgh Panthers sports teams compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference.

Pitt students are notorious for their avid support at sporting events, particularly for forming a riotous cheering section known as the Oakland Zoo at basketball games. Students who attend the most home sporting events get priority purchasing when game tickets are in high demand through the school’s Loyalty Points system.

• The university earns national accolades for its highly ranked School of Medicine, School of Education and Swanson School of Engineering,
• The School of Medicine is particularly well regarded for its research, working in conjunction with the highly ranked University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the institution receives one of the highest amounts of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The university is well known for its focus on going green, too. Students and faculty work toward environmentally friendly neighborhood solutions at the school’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. There are notable University of Pittsburgh alumni in almost every professional sector; some are famed football personalities Mike Ditka and Dan Marino; former U.S.
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Is Duquesne University a dry campus?

It’s also a dry campus because it’s strongly religious, with VERY strict residence life policies concerning visiting.
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Which school sends most students to Harvard?

The Making of a Harvard Feeder School | News | The Harvard Crimson

• Although Harvard prides itself on its 1636 founding, the city of Boston established the nation’s oldest educational institution—Boston Latin School—a full year earlier.
• “There’s a joke that Harvard was started a year after our school as a place for our students to go,” said James Montague, a counselor at Boston Latin.
• 375 years later, Boston Latin students still go north of the Charles to continue their education—by Montague’s count, the school contributed 15 students to Harvard’s current freshman class, one of only a handful of schools to send 10 or more students to the College this year, according to numbers obtained from Harvard’s freshman register.
• In total, one out of every 20 Harvard freshmen attended one of the seven high schools most represented in the class of 2017—Boston Latin, Phillips Academy in Andover, Stuyvesant High School, Noble and Greenough School, Phillips Exeter Academy, Trinity School in New York City, and Lexington High School.
• Although these schools vary significantly, ranging from private boarding schools to local public schools, their administrators and alumni trace their success to some or all of three different factors: a selective admissions process, strong college counselling, and academic cultures that foreshadow the Harvard experience.
• FIRST ROUND OF APPLICATIONS
• For most of the students at Harvard’s so-called “feeder schools,” applying to college feels almost familiar—many of the high-schools who are well-represented at the College have their own selective admissions requirements.

“I think, if anything, the process is a bit more strenuous than it was for applying to college,” said Tez M. Clark ’17, who is also a Crimson editorial writer, about her experience applying to Exeter nearly five years ago. “I definitely felt nervous.” Exeter and similar private boarding schools require a substantial application, which takes into account test scores, letters of recommendations, grades, and personal essays.

1. The most prestigious schools receive thousands of applications a year, from all over the world, and have admissions rates similar to those of top-tier colleges.
2. Phillips Academy in Andover—which sent 18 students to Harvard this year—accepted only 13 percent of those who applied.
3. At many of the public schools who consistently send students to Harvard—like Boston Latin and New York’s Stuyvesant—admission depends on the result of competitive tests that students take in elementary or middle school.

“You’re very young, and you’re experiencing a lot of things that you don’t usually experience until you’re a high school senior,” said Stuyvesant alumnus Konrad E. Surkont ’16, recalling the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test that determines placement in New York’s nine specialized public high schools.

Harvard students from selective high schools, both public and private, said that their high schools’ admissions requirements might explain why so many of their classmates matriculate at Harvard. “To me, it’s understandable that there are more students from Exeter than from a different school just because Exeter has already selected very competitive students, and Harvard’s drawing from a high concentration of competitive applicants,” Clark said.

According to John G. Palfrey ’94, a former Harvard Law School professor who now serves as the Andover’s headmaster, selective high schools attract potential Harvard students away from their home high schools. “I think often a student who comes here has either exhausted the offerings of their home school or they are feeling like they’re up for a different kind of challenge during high school,” he said.

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2. As early as fall of their students’ junior year, the top-represented high schools at the College use thorough counseling programs geared toward preparing students for college applications.
3. According to David Ding ’16, an Andover alumnus, each student at Andover is assigned a college counselor who keeps track of application deadlines, writes letters of recommendation, and reviews student essays.

“We encourage students to apply to a broad range of schools, and we’re really trying to help them find a match,” Palfrey said of Andover’s counseling program. “For some students that match may be an Ivy League school, and for other students that school may be another one.” Casey J.

• Pedrick, Director of College Counseling at Stuyvesant, said she and her counseling team make themselves available to students almost 24/7 during the college application process, leaving their doors open whenever a student needs advice.
• We’re really good about being able to answer emails at night and making ourselves available for communications over the summer,” Pedrick said.

“They’re always thankful when they see an email or a reply back at midnight.” Noble and Greenough School also tries to form a strong connection between its college counseling program and its students, according to Ben M. Snyder, head of the Upper School at Noble and Greenough.

• All of our college counselors also teach, and then 75 percent of their job is college counseling,” said Snyder.
• We want as many people as possible in the classroom with kids.” Like counseling programs at other secondary schools that regularly send students to Harvard, Noble and Greenough’s program is comprehensive.

It advises students on which courses and standardized tests to take, helps students determine their academic interests, and communicates with students about application deadlines. “We’re very lucky,” said Snyder. “Both in being able to have really talented kids come into the school and then providing this program for those kids.” ‘A NATURAL CONTINUATION’ Because students from these secondary schools were exposed to educational and extracurricular opportunities similar to those offered by universities, they felt encouraged to apply to schools like Harvard.

• Palfrey, who attended Exeter during high school, also said his move from preparatory school to college was facilitated by his experience studying with intelligent students and exploring the school’s course offerings.
• “I felt like I had an easy time with the transition to college,” Palfrey said, “Whereas for others there was a larger cultural leap between their high school experience and their Harvard college experience.”
• Noble and Greenough, like Andover, gears its curriculum toward college preparation, offering classes like “Biochemistry Research” and “Politics and Ethics.”

“Each department sets their own curriculum and what they do is they try to gear it to challenge our most talented kids,” Snyder said. “Often times that means coursework that would be much more like a college seminar.” “I feel like college admissions officers know what they will be getting,” said Surkont about Stuyvesant High School, reflecting on its alumni’s successes at Harvard.

1. Stuyvesant, like many other selective secondary schools, has a long history of sending students to the Ivy League.
2. In fact, Noble and Greenough, Exeter, and Andover were all founded by Harvard College graduates, and Noble and Greenough was originally established as an all-boys preparatory school for Harvard.
3. And Harvard’s relationship with Boston Latin is well established.
4. “There is no doubt there is a long rich tradition between Harvard and Boston Latin School,” Montague said.

—Staff writer Meg P. Bernhard can be reached at [email protected]. : The Making of a Harvard Feeder School | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Where is the hardest school in the world?

Stanford University Topping the list of the hardest school to get into in the world is Stanford. It has been featured top of this list for several years and no other university anywhere in the world has managed to replace it yet.
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What is the hardest school to get into?

Harvard, Stanford and Princeton, unsurprisingly, are America’s toughest colleges to get into in 2023, according to Niche’s most recent rankings.
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What is the hardest school to get into us?

1. Harvard University — 3.19% –

Total Number of Applicants (Class of 2026): 61,220 Total Admitted: 1,954

With a record-low admission rate of just 3.19% for the class of 2026, Harvard currently ranks as the most difficult school to get into. This rate reflects admission into Harvard College, the Ivy League university’s undergraduate school. When making admission decisions, Harvard assesses each student as a whole person, considering both character and academic potential.
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Is MIT or Harvard more prestigious?

Conclusion: Making Your MIT vs Harvard Decision – MIT and Harvard are equally prestigious universities based in Cambridge, a nearby city of Boston. While MIT focuses primarily on science, math, and technology, Harvard offers a broader variety of liberal arts and sciences programs.

1. Neither institution is “better” than the other, at least in an objective sense, as both are top-ranked schools that are highly selective and offer students an array of quality academic programs and exciting extracurricular activities.
2. Ultimately, to determine whether MIT or Harvard is better for you, you’ll need to look at several factors, such as student body size, costs and financial aid, what academic programs are available, and what types of students typically get admitted.

As you begin applying to college—whether it’s to Harvard, MIT, or both!—be sure to give yourself plenty of time to put together your best application possible.
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What is the most prestigious school in Pennsylvania?

Private colleges in Pennsylvania – Carnegie Mellon University In addition to public universities, Pennsylvania is also home to a wide range of private colleges, including liberal arts colleges and research universities. These institutions are often more specialized in their academic programs and offer a more personalized learning experience.
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How hard is it to get into Duquesne?

Duquesne University admissions is selective with an acceptance rate of 92%. Half the applicants admitted to Duquesne University have an SAT score between 1140 and 1310 or an ACT score of 24 and 29. However, one quarter of admitted applicants achieved scores above these ranges and one quarter scored below these ranges.

The application deadline at Duquesne University is Aug.15. Admissions officials at Duquesne University consider a student’s GPA a very important academic factor. An applicant’s high school class rank, when available, is considered important and letters of recommendation are considered by admissions officials at Duquesne University.

To see additional academic factors along with other school data, learn more about College Compass,
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What is the hardest school to get into at Penn?

Which UPenn School Has the Highest Acceptance Rate? – Another edge in admissions is to apply to one of the schools within UPenn with a higher acceptance rate with the intent to transfer into one of the more challenging schools. For example, Nursing School or School of Arts and Sciences have a higher acceptance rate than UPenn’s Engineering and Wharton schools.

Transferring within schools is possible but should be done with care. While all the different undergraduate schools are competitive, some are more so than others. Wharton (9% acceptance rate) is the most competitive school, while the UPenn School of Nursing (25% acceptance rate) is the least competitive of the four.

Also, Students in UPenn Nursing School skew female. So males applying would have much-improved odds. So long as a student keeps their application competitive and targeted to the school they apply to, he or she has a better chance of being accepted by applying to a less competitive program and transferring later. The average student who studies for 8 hours will gain 90 points on the SAT. Power Play students gain 200 points in the same amount of time. Our 10-minute microlearning system engages, guides, and gets students to mastery, no matter their starting point. ‍Unbelievably smart. Affordable for all. Get Your 200+ Score Increase Now ➡
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What is the highest ranked school in Pennsylvania?

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School	Ranking (2022 vs 2021)
Rank	School	Rank (2021)
1	Seneca High School
2	Downingtown STEM Academy
3	Masterman Julia R Sec School	2

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