University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is a public research university and one of the first ten universities in the United States. Its main campus is located in Pittsburgh, the second largest city in Pennsylvania, across the street from Carnegie Mellon University. The college is located in Auckland, with a superior geographical position. The motto of the school is "Truth and Virtue" and the mascot is Jaguar.

The history of the school is: 1787. Hugh HenryBrackenridge, a judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court and a famous American writer, founded the Pittsburgh Institute, the predecessor of the huge institute. 18 19 was renamed the University of Western Pennsylvania. From its founding to 1966, Pita University has always been a private university.

The campus environment of the school is: the school has Gothic, Greek Acropolis and Renaissance-style classical buildings. The landmark Learning Cathedral has 42 floors and is 535 feet (65,438+063 meters) high. It is a Gothic building, which was built in 1925 and completed in 1937. It is the second tallest teaching building in the world. In addition to being the central landmark of the main campus of Pita University, it is also a famous tourist attraction.

1925 when the building was built, there was a fund-raising plan to encourage children at that time called "buy a brick for a big horse" Each child donated 10 cent and wrote a letter to a big horse explaining how they earned this 10 cent for this landmark building. This building is mainly designed with vertical parallel lines. From the bottom up, you can see not only magnificent buildings, but also many vertical lines that go straight into the sky, which tells every student who comes here to study that there is no end to learning.