Duquesne University Top Questions

I love Duquesne and coming here was the best decision I have ever made. My favorite things at Duquesne are the small inner-city campus without the busy city feel. The campus is beautiful with tons of fountains, brick roads and grassy areas for laying out when its warm. I love Pittsburgh too and there are a ton of colleges here as well. University of Pittsburgh and CMU are both about 6 minutes away from Duquesne's campus. Duquesne is located downtown near everything you would need in walking distance. Pittsburgh is full of beautiful water and the Springs are amazing. I love Duquesne's size because it is big enough to meet a wide variety of people but small enough to see someone you know wherever you go on campus. It is also very easy to get to know people within your major because a lot of the programs keep low numbers purposely, like mine. Duquesne staff is friendly and knowledgeable about everything. There is a lot of school pride, but the sports pride isn't as big as it should be, but as the Basketball program is getting better the pride is getting better as well. My favorite thing at Duquesne is Greek Life. It is not stereotypical at all and is very community service-oriented. I have met hundreds of people through Greek Life and it is such a loving environment. Its very easy to get involved at Duquesne which is amazing because it makes you a well-rounded individual and helps you meet people easily. It is sometimes difficult to make friends at Duquesne in the beginning so make yourself as busy as possible. I would advise against Honors College housing as a Freshman, because it secluded me from other people and made it more difficult to meet people.

I love how it's in the city, yet not really. There are many places to go on weekends like the South Side Works for shopping and Station Square for a nice dinner; and yet it is out of the 'city atmosphere'. Also I love how the most I ever have to walk to a class is about 10 minutes. The campus buildings are all a nice short distance from eachother, no waking up hours before class just to walk there. I think greek life is really overrated. They act like they own the campus sometimes and like they are the only organization at Duquesne. I think other organizations should be recognized more, especially the ones who help others.

Duquesne is in a great location - right in downtown pittsburgh, but up on the "bluff" so the actual campus is similar to a "small town' campus. It is great because Duquesne is in walking distance to Station Square and Southside, so there are always places to go! For the most past classes are small sizes other than the few freshman/soph. year science core classes. Duquesne is a good size school. There are many different places to eat on campus, but unfortunately meal plans are waaay overpriced, and required for all people living in dorms. Duquesne's president is all about the athletics...which can be very irritating. This past year the marching band was cut because the athletic dept. wanted to create a "pep band mentality"...whatever that is supposed to be?!? I would say there really isn't a huge amount of school pride unless the basketball team is doing well...I was in the marching band and pep band for football and basketball games, and my freshman year the basketball team was not very good, and the stands were always very empty! Despite these few bad things, Duquesne is a nice school, it would just be better if we could get some different people in the high positions on campus!

I don't think many people think about Duquesne because of the other bigger schools around (Pitt) but it is a perfect size, not too big not too small and you have all of Pittsburgh at your hands. There is really no school pride especially when it comes to sports. Even though it is a DI school.

I love it here. You have the city, but yet a quiet beautiful campus to come back to. It is great to have other universities (Pitt, CMU, Carlow, Chatham) around, it gives you more to do. I think the size of the college is great. I came from a large high school and I had no problem adjusting to being here. I get a lot of good feedback and pride when I tell people that I attend Duquesne. It has a great reputation, and there will be someone who knows Duquesne everywhere you go.

Duquense University is a small campus that is bigger than any high school out there in populous , but is no where close to as big as a Pitt or a Penn State. The size is small enough to run into many people you know on the way to class, but big enough where you do not know everyone who goes to school there. Duquesne sits right next to downtown Pittsburgh. It is a five minute walk to the heart of downtown and a ten minute walk to southside, which is where most of the partying is found. Biggest controversy is parking. If you park you car on campus without a permit for more than 5 minutes you will get a ticket. It seems as though all Duquesne police do is ticket cars.

alot of students complain about parking. Duq. is an inner city school (although you would never know it because most of the campus is green). But parking is limited and the Duq. police don't hesitate to give out tickets. Duq. is a smaller cozy campus. It's nice to walk down the sidewalk and see so many people you know and recognize.

Duquesne has strong academic programs, but the grading curve is harsh in the sciences. It is a nice size -- some classes are large lectures, others are small. There's not a lot to do right near campus -- the bar and social scene is in Southside.

I loved that Duquesne was on the bluff overlooking the South Side. It's a BEAUTIFUL campus. Small, but nice. I liked that it was in the city even though Pittsburgh isn't much of a city. That's part of the reason I transferred. I liked that it was a small school. You know just about everyone in your major. The music school is great in that you learn SO much, but there were weeks at a time where my entire body ached of stress. That's another reason I left Duquesne. Of course in college you must work, but that's all I did for the most part. I practically felt guilty if I went out on a weekend night. Weekdays?! Forget about it. My friends didn't see me Monday-Thursday cause I worked literally every waking moment. One of the absolute best teachers I've ever had was Tom Kikta. If you can take a class from him, even if he doesn't teach your major, TAKE IT! He has the maximum knowledge about everything.