Chatham University
Chatham University is a private, fully accredited university situated between the Shadyside and Squirrel Hill residential districts of Pittsburgh about six miles from downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although it limits granting baccalaureate degrees to women, Chatham confers post-baccalaureate and graduate degrees, and issues certificates to women and men.
Chatham operates three colleges: Chatham College for Women (baccalaureate degrees for women); College for Graduate Studies (master’s and doctoral degrees and teacher certification for women and men); and College for Continuing and Professional Studies (undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education online for women and men).
Its academic curriculum is divided into seven divisions: Art and Design, Business and Entrepreneurship, Global and Public Policy Studies, Health Sciences, Human Development, Science, and Writing, Literary and Cultural Studies through which it grants four baccalaureate degrees, fourteen master’s degrees (Business Administration, Business Administration for Heathcare Professionals, Arts in Teaching, Landscape Studies, Landscape Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Architecture, Fine Arts in Film and Digital Technology, Writing, Counseling Psychology, Leadership and Organizational Transformation, Occupational Therapy, and Physician Assistant Studies) and two doctoral degrees (Physician Assistant Studies and Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy).
Chatham students may enroll in classes at any of Pittsburgh’s nine other colleges and universities such as Carnegie Mellon University and avail of its study-abroad program.
Almost 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in 500 courses of study spanning more than 35 majors and pre-professional programs using state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in its 338-acre campus. It averages a class size of 14 and a student to faculty ratio of only 8:1.
2009 – 2010 academic cost amounts to $662 per credit for undergraduate students plus a college fee of $160 per semester. For graduate students, the tuition is $720 per credit plus a college fee of $14 per credit.
Chatham also actively supports global issues dealing with environmental awareness and global peace thru several campus institutes and centers: Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Chatham; Global Focus Program; Pennsylvania Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy; Pittsburgh Teachers Institute; Rachel Carson Institute; Regional Women’s Initiative; and Three Rivers University Consortium for the Environment.
