University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

The academic programs stress critical-thinking skills and communication and encourage hands-on learning through field experience, internships, and faculty-student collaboration on research. A Pitt-Bradford bachelor's degree requires 120-128 credit hours (requirements differ slightly among programs). Students must complete between 60 and 70 credit hours to earn an associate degree.

The biology program prepares students for careers in health-related professions; education; research; field work; with companies that produce food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and biotechnology; and technical positions with governmental agencies. Most students interested in medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, osteopathy, optometry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, chiropractic medicine, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical dietetics and nutrition, and a variety of careers in health and rehabilitation sciences, are biology majors.

Students in the broadcast communications, English, public relations, and writing programs work on the student newspaper, The Source; broadcast over the college radio station, WDRQ: and publish original works in the award-winning student literary magazine, Baily's Beads. Students also have access to a state-of-the-art electronic newsroom, radio studio, television studio, and video editing room with analog and digital technology.

Students who choose to major in computer information systems and technology will get a broad IT background and gain hands-on lab experiences. Students will learn programming applications, network development, systems design and analysis, web technologies, multimedia applications, database development, and systems administration.

The criminal justice program provides opportunities for hands-on learning through the Crime Scene Investigation House, where students can solve mock crime scenes using many of the same tools as professional law enforcement agents; and internships with local and regional police departments, county courts and probation offices, and a federal prison.

The Early Level Education Pre K-4 and secondary education majors prepare students for careers as teachers in a world of rapid political, economic, scientific and cultural change. The Education Department seeks to graduate students who have general knowledge and specific content knowledge, as well as sound theory and practice.

The nursing program at Pitt-Bradford offers an associate of science degree that can be completed in two years and the bachelor of science in nursing that requires two more years. Students may commence this program on completion of the ASN. Students may also pursue both degrees in a unique 1+2+1 program.

In psychology, students gain knowledge in the scientific and theoretical aspects of psychology as well as the application of this knowledge. The major prepares students for graduate work in psychology and related disciplines and for employment in social service agencies, mental health centers, industries, and not-for-profit and governmental agencies.

Students may relocate to another university campus to complete academic programs not offered at Pitt-Bradford. They may earn no more than 70 credits before transferring. All students in the arts and sciences may relocate provided they are students in good standing with a minimum GPA of 2.5. Engineering students may relocate if they maintain a GPA of at least 3.0.

To learn more about our academic programs, visit http://www.upb.pitt.edu/academicprograms.

Students at Pitt-Bradford may pursue four-year degrees in Accounting; Applied Mathematics; Athletic Training; Biology; Biology Education 7-12; Broadcast Communications; Business, Computer and Information Technology Education K-12; Business Management; Chemistry; Chemistry Education 7-12; Computer Information Systems and Technology; Criminal Justice; Early Level Education Pre-K–4; Economics; Energy Science and Technology; English; English Education 7-12; Environmental Studies; Exercise Science; Forensic Science; General Studies; Health and Physical Education; History/Political Science; Hospitality Management; Interdisciplinary Arts; International Affairs; Mathematics Education 7-12; Nursing; Physical Sciences; Psychology; Public Relations; Radiological Science; Social Studies Education 7-12; Sociology; Sport and Recreation Management; and Writing.

Students may pursue associate degrees in Engineering Science, Nursing (RN), Liberal Studies, Information Systems, and Petroleum Technology.

Students may study engineering for up to two years at Pitt-Bradford then complete a program at the Pittsburgh campus in bioengineering, chemical and petroleum engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering, industrial engineering, materials science and engineering, or mechanical engineering.

Students may pursue programs offered in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine and the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Undergraduates begin their studies at Pitt-Bradford and, after three years, transfer to the appropriate graduate school to complete four more years of study.

Pitt-Bradford also offers the first two years of study leading to the doctorate in pharmacy. Students must complete the program at the Pittsburgh campus, where admission is competitive. The Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy pre-admits some qualified high school seniors, pending completion of the first two years of the pre-professional program at Pitt-Bradford.