Chatham University

Chatham University is a private institution that was founded in 1869. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,499 (fall 2022), its setting is city, and the campus size is 427 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Chatham University's ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, #209. Its tuition and fees are $43,810.

Chatham University, located in Pittsburgh, was once a women’s college, but is now fully coeducational. Both male and female students are eligible for admission into the school’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Some degree programs are offered through the university’s Falk School of Sustainability and its College for Continuing and Professional Studies, which also offers certificate and noncredit academic programs. The university offers about 40 undergraduate degree programs, and students can also design their own major or minor.

Through the Integrated Degree Program, students can earn both a bachelor's and a master's degree in five years. For their graduate studies, students can pursue degrees in the arts, science, business and health at Chatham, or they can earn a degree through Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, which partners with Chatham for the program.

Outside of class, students have a variety of organizations to consider, including Social Work is Real Life, or SWIRL, which encourages community involvement and exposes members to the social work profession, and Communiqué, the student newspaper. The Chatham athletic teams, the Cougars, compete in the NCAA Division III Presidents' Athletic Conference. All undergraduates must live on campus for their first two years of school, unless they commute from a parent's home within 30 miles of campus. Notable alumnae of Chatham University include Rachel Carson, a famed environmentalist and namesake of the university's Rachel Carson Institute, and Muriel Bowser, mayor of the District of Columbia.