Our graduates have secured tenure-track faculty positions at top-ranking universities as well as high-impact appointments in government, industry, business, and the non-profit sector.
Experience
Fellowships, assistantships, and research placements give graduate students experience in teaching, advising and conducting research.
Breadth
A diverse population of over 1,300 students from some 70 countries pursue MA, MS, MFA and PhD degrees in over 30 concentrations as well as interdisciplinary certificates.
Faculty
Our nationally and internationally recognized faculty members translate scholarly expertise into top-quality graduate programs.
Scholarship
Our students benefit from a broad range of courses and curricula as well as resources and opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Research
Our Grad Expo and 3MT competition enable students to present their research and engage in interdisciplinary networking with faculty and peers.
To translate insight into action, Charles Athanasopoulos has analyzed and archived public art and monuments across the U.S., studying iconography and its relationship to (anti
A community organizer experienced in affecting change, Kanoko Kamata is dedicated to inspiring others to take action. Her collaboration with activist, nonprofit, and government
A first-generation graduate student unafraid to break new ground, Esther reflects on balancing research, patient support, and self-care during the global pandemic.
My research seeks to understand black movements, how social movements become racialized, and how black movements generate their own conceptions of black identity
Pitt’s philosophy department is extremely intellectually diverse. As a young scholar it is exciting to be exposed to so many different styles of doing philosophy.
Technological progress can make the economy grow, but there’s always a dark side. For example, due to automation, the jobs that low-skill workers usually take have been in
From the Taj Mahal to NFL stadiums, we are highly skilled at constructing unique architectures that we can see. What about controlling the structure of something you cannot see
To translate insight into action, Charles Athanasopoulos has analyzed and archived public art and monuments across the U.S., studying iconography and its relationship to (anti-)Black rhetoric(s).
A community organizer experienced in affecting change, Kanoko Kamata is dedicated to inspiring others to take action. Her collaboration with activist, nonprofit, and government stakeholders resulted in the reform of Japan’s sex crime law for the first time in 110 years.
A first-generation graduate student unafraid to break new ground, Esther reflects on balancing research, patient support, and self-care during the global pandemic.
My research seeks to understand black movements, how social movements become racialized, and how black movements generate their own conceptions of black identity.
Pitt’s philosophy department is extremely intellectually diverse. As a young scholar it is exciting to be exposed to so many different styles of doing philosophy.
Technological progress can make the economy grow, but there’s always a dark side. For example, due to automation, the jobs that low-skill workers usually take have been in decline, and it has increased inequality.
From the Taj Mahal to NFL stadiums, we are highly skilled at constructing unique architectures that we can see. What about controlling the structure of something you cannot see with your own eyes?