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Point Park University Overview

• Point Park was founded in 1960 and recorded 3,920 students in the 2011–12 academic year, including 530 graduate students. The two largest master's degree programs are the M.B.A. program in the School of Business, and the M.A. in journalism and mass communication in the School of Communication.
• The University is on the semester system and has four schools: Arts & Sciences, Business, Communication and Conservatory of Performing Arts.
• The University is well known for its Conservatory of Performing Arts, which attracts students from around the world. Its undergraduate dance and musical theatre program is rated among the best in the United States. Student and professional performances are held at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the Performing Arts Center of Point Park University, which has three separate performance spaces and is located in the Oakland neighborhood.
• Point Park's School of Communication is home to the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies, a semi-annual, refereed, scholarly journal published by the Information Resources Management Association in cooperation with IGI-Global. Its editor is Dr. Tatyana Dumova, associate professor of digital media. For nearly 5 years, the School of Communication also hosted Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, a refereed, scholarly, quarterly published by the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC).
• The School of Communication, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review daily newspaper, runs the Point Park News Service. Undergraduate and graduate journalism students write articles that are offered to, and sometimes published in, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review or its afternoon paper, the TribPM.
• The University is one of only six in the United States with a joint M.A. (journalism/mass communication)/M.B.A. program. The others are Boston University, Columbia University, Southern Illinois University—Carbondale, University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, and University of Texas at Austin.
• The University's independent weekly student newspaper is The Globe.
• The University's student-produced television newsmagazine is "Wood Street Connection."
• The University's student radio station is WPPJ.
• The University's student literary magazine is The Cavalcade.
• The University's journalism course-produced news magazine is The Pioneer.
• On February 1, 2007, the University launched "U-View", Point Park's closed circuit news and entertainment TV station.