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    Make a Pitt education your reality.

    The University of Pittsburgh admits students with academic and personal promise without consideration of ability to pay. Working together with families, we find ways to help make a Pitt education a reality. Learn which Pitt financial aid options are right for you.

     

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    Expanding access to higher education

    The University of Pittsburgh admits students with academic and personal promise without consideration of ability to pay. Working together with families, we find ways to help make a Pitt education your reality.

     

    The University of Pittsburgh admits students with academic and personal promise without consideration of ability to pay. Working together with families, we find ways to help make a Pitt education a reality. Learn which Pitt financial aid options are right for you.

Pitt Success Program

The Pitt Success Program consists of Pell match and grants available to students on all five of Pitt’s campuses. Currently, Pitt enrolls more than 5,700 students who benefit from the program, with the average student receiving $5,500. The program has been linked to a notable improvement in retention and graduation rates, and student loan debt for all Pitt graduates has dropped about $1,000 in two years.

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Success Stories

Check out just a few of the stories that tell how Pitt continues to find the edge and push further in student excellence, access and affordability.

Record Number of Pell-Eligible Students Coming to Pitt

Closing the Retention Gap: Pitt Success Pell Match Program Celebrates New Milestone

Panthers Forward Continues Its Mission of Student Loan Relief

Pitt Launches Groundbreaking Program in Ongoing Effort to Support Students With Financial Need

 

Additional Student Success Programs

RaiseMe Earn up to $28,000 in scholarship dollars. Contribute to your fund through achievement in areas including high school grades, volunteering and activities.
Coalition for College High-school students can access a private virtual locker to store important items from their high school experiences that are likely to help them with the college application process.
Pittsburgh Admissions Collaboration This first-of-its-kind program gives Pittsburgh Public high school students a clear pathway to go to—and graduate from—college.
Pittsburgh Public Scholars Valedictorians and salutatorians in the Pittsburgh Public School system are guaranteed admission to one of our five campuses and a four-year scholarship.
PittFund$Me Current and incoming students can search Pitt's scholarship database for thousands of additional dollars.
Panthers Forward The Panthers Forward program—unique to Pitt—leverages the power of our university community to ease the burden of student loan debt.

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Record Number of Pell-Eligible Students Coming to Pitt
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Gifts that Keep Giving
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Closing the Retention Gap: Pitt Success Pell Match Program Celebrates New Milestone
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