Education
Western Pennsylvania is home to more than two dozen institutions of higher learning, including those listed below. (Seminaries are not listed)
- Allegheny College
- The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
- Community College of Allegheny County (several campuses)
- Community College of Beaver County
- Butler County Community College
- California University of Pennsylvania
- Carlow University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Chatham University
- Clarion University of Pennsylvania
- Duquesne University
- Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
- Gannon University
- Geneva College
- Grove City College
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- LaRoche College
- Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Mercyhurst College
- Mount Aloysius College
- Penn Highlands Community College
- Pennsylvania State University (several branch campuses)
- Point Park University
- Robert Morris University
- Saint Francis University
- Saint Vincent College
- Seton Hill University
- Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
- Thiel College
- University of Pittsburgh (several campuses)
- Vincentian Academy
- Washington and Jefferson College
- Waynesburg University
- Westminster College
- Westmoreland County Community College
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“I note what you say of the late disturbances in your College. These dissensions are a great affliction on the American schools, and a principal impediment to education in this country.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“A President must call on many persons—some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come we’re selling this deadly stuff anyway?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)