The City of Pittsburgh offers University of Pittsburgh students unique and lasting opportunities to enjoy and benefit from its lively downtown, its diverse neighborhoods, and its growing economy. Truly, the city is an extension of the Pittsburgh campus.

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Just across the street from the University of Pittsburgh campus, the Carnegie Complex contains the region's main public library, a music hall, a fine arts museum, and a natural history museum

The City of Pittsburgh offers University of Pittsburgh students unique and lasting opportunities to enjoy and benefit from its lively downtown, its diverse neighborhoods, and its growing economy. Truly, the city is an extension of the Pittsburgh campus.

Bouquet Gardens, one of the University's newest residences, welcomed students in the fall of 1999. Three garden-style apartment buildings are home to a total of 192 upper division undergraduate students. Students have suites consisting of a living room/kitchen area surrounded by individual bedrooms

Benedum Hall houses the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering and contains offices, labs, classrooms, conference and seminar rooms, a 528-seat auditorium that is divisible into three lecture halls, and the engineering library. It also contains a computer lab and a well-stocked snack bar.

Bellefield Hall is home to a variety of University offices and services, but most students know it for its indoor swimming pool, which was recently treated to a six-month, $700,000 renovation. The building also houses facilities for the Music Department, including the William R. Robinson Digital R

Built in 1915

Housing the Physics and Astronomy department, Allen Hall contains offices, classrooms, and labs involving both disciplines. Trivia tidbit: The facade of this building has a plaque to honor Madame Curie, who spent time in Pittsburgh conducting research at the University. The plaque was dedicated by

The Allegheny Observatory is located on Pittsburgh's North Side. University of Pittsburgh faculty and students harness the latest technologies to explore the heavens. The sky's the limit!

Formed in 1911, the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was one of the first permanent partnerships to unite scientific research, university education, and commercial technology development. The institute moved in 1937 to this landmark building, the design of which was inspired by classic Greek