Pitt-Bradford Students Beat the Odds | Government Relations and Advocacy

Submitted by CAMARDA on April 27, 2023 - 5:20pm

With an enrollment of 1,300 students, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford boasts rankings that would be the envy of many larger institutions.

The campus is enjoying a 19-year run as one of Princeton Review’s best colleges in the Northeast based on financial aid and selectivity. Then there’s U.S. News & World Report, which has ranked Pitt-Bradford as one of the top universities in the Northeast in three areas:

14th among top public schools.
29th among regional colleges.
33rd in social mobility.

Another survey—the Washington Monthly’s 2023 Best Bang for the Buck Rankings—named Pitt-Bradford the top Pennsylvania college for earning marketable degrees at affordable prices. The campus placed high on measures including student earnings performance and student loan repayment, and—among the 391 institutions currently ranked throughout the Northeast—it sits above most at No. 31.

Add to this agile and evolving academic options. Since 2015, the school has responded to student interest by expanding programming, including in the areas of international affairs, music, Africana studies, human resource management, forensic science, foreign languages, software development and cybersecurity.

A particular point of rankings pride is that Pitt-Bradford consistently earns high marks in social mobility, per the U.S. News & World Report and Washington Monthly. The two surveys find that Pitt-Bradford’s graduation rates and post-graduation incomes are higher than statistical models predict they should be. Put simply: Pitt-Bradford students—much like their campus—have a history of outperforming their peers.