About the School Quick Facts

Students	External Support
Departments	Alumni
Cooperative Education	Rankings
Diversity	Other Notable Facts
Research

The Swanson School of Engineering's 100 faculty members serve nearly 2,500 students in six departments.

75 percent undergraduate and 25 percent graduate The school attracts some of the brightest students in the country.

Typical freshmen are in the top 10 percent of their high school senior class.
Nearly 5 percent of each class of freshman students at Pitt are in the top 1 percent of college-bound students.

The Swanson School of Engineering's strengths are found within six major departments:

Bioengineering (BS, MS, PhD)
Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (BS, MS, PhD)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (BS, MS, PhD)
Electrical Engineering (BS, MS, PhD)
Industrial Engineering (BS, MS, PhD)
Mechanical Engineering +
Materials Science (BS, MS, PhD)

There are also six interdisciplinary areas:

Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering (BS)
Bioengineering (Joint MD and PhD)
Computer Engineering (BS)
Engineering Physics (BS)
Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MS)
Petroleum Engineering (MS)

	Undergraduate			Graduate			Total
Department/ Program	FT	PT	Total	FT	PT	Total	FT	PT	Total
Bioeng	149	0	149	129	13	142	278	13	291
ChE & PetE	175	1	176	43	2	45	218	3	221
CEE	265	13	278	39	30	69	304	43	347
COE	142	11	153	4	0	4	146	11	157
EE	171	8	179	52	29	81	223	37	260
IE	162	4	166	42	36	78	204	40	244
ME	307	14	321	48	42	90	355	56	411
MSE	23	0	23	16	14	30	39	14	53
EnRes	---	---	---	0	0	0	0	0	0
MSEP	---	---	---	0	0	0	0	0	0
EngrPh	15	0	15	---	---	---	15	0	15
Special	0	10	10	0	23	23	0	33	33
Fresh.	525	2	527	---	---	---	525	2	527
TOTAL	1934	63	1997	373	189	562	2307	252	2559

FT = full time
PT = part time
(Fall 2007 data)

Cooperative Education Program

200 participating companies.
More than 60 percent student participation.
Nearly 100 percent graduate job placement over the past three years.

Diversity

Engineering undergraduate women enrollment has increased over the last six years to 25 percent, exceeding the national average.
In 2001, the Swanson School of Engineering ranked #1 in the state of Pennsylvania for the number of African American graduates, according to the Engineering Workforce Commission.

Research

Research funding has doubled in five years to $20 million annually within the school and $15 million interdisciplinary funding, for a total of $35 million.
Faculty members hold more than 200 research contracts.

External Support

Through the generous support of alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations, the Swanson School of Engineering realized $7,300,571 in total support for the 2008 fiscal year. This includes $708,594 in annual support and $45,400 in corporate matching programs.

The Swanson School of Engineering is in the midst of a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million for the school as part of the University of Pittsburgh “Discover a World of Possibilities” capital campaign aimed at raising $1 billion.

Alumni

Total Living Engineering Alumni (07/30/2007)
Bioengineering	439	Chemical and Petroleum Engineering	3,720
Civil and Environmental Engineering	4,217	Computer Engineering	498
Electrical Engineering	6,044	Industrial Engineering	2,990
Materials Science and Engineering	1,492	Mechanical Engineering	5,660
Other Majors/Specializations	1,270
Total			26,330

Rankings*

University of Pittsburgh

Top American Research Universities, issued by the Center for Measuring University Performance	Newsweek: Top 100 Global Universities	Times Higher-QS World University Rankings	Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	NIH Funding	NSF Funding
2007	2006	2008	2006	2006	2006
One of seven public universities; ranked in the highest group	10th among public U.S. universities	13th among public U.S. universities	18th among public U.S. universities	6th in funding; 4th in number of grants received	Top 10

Swanson School of Engineering and Engineering and Departments, Among Public Universities

	US News & World Report		Academic Analytics
	2010 Undergraduate	2010 Graduate	2006-7
Swanson School of Engineering	29th (tie)	27th (tie)	12th
Bioengineering	9th	4th
Industrial Engineering		14th

* There is some dispute in academic and non-academic circles about the value and accuracy and methodologies of various ranking instruments. Some are completely subjective and others are completely objective. However, because a constituency is interested in these rankings or uses them to make decisions, the details are provided here.

Other Notable Facts

The University of Pittsburgh is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the by-invitation-only association of the top 60 or so research universities in North America.
The Swanson School of Engineering is home to eight prestigious national scholarship winners in the past six years. This includes a Rhodes scholar, the only undergraduate engineering student named to this honor that year; six Goldwater scholars in a row; and a Truman scholarship, earned by an African American student, an underrepresented ethnic group in engineering.
The University of Pittsburgh is ranked 13 by the Peace Corps for number of student volunteers.
Read more about “The Company We Keep” in the fall 2007 issue of Pitt Magazine.