<p>I am having trouble finding first-hand information on Duquesne. Does anybody have experience with this college? Is it as personal as it seemed at the open house? Any opinions of the various housing options? Comments on the safety of the campus and South Side housing? Thanks!</p>
<p>I am curious too.</p>
<p>My D was accepted last year, but did not attend. You might send a pm to Neonzeus, she knows the area and school and graciously advised us last year!</p>
<p>Nephew graduated from Duquesne in music. Kids from our suburb of Pittsburgh go there, live on campus at first and then on the south side. I have known business and pharmacy majors there also. It is close to downtown Pittsburgh, which is a reasonably safe city. Things can happen everywhere and one must always use caution, especially walking at night. The south side is a fun place to be for a college student (lots of bars and restaurants). One neighbor girl didn’t like the atmosphere and transferred to Pitt.</p>
<p>I am a Duquesne graduate. I would say that the university’s best programs are music education, business administration and pharmacy. Its School of Health Related Professions is very well regarded.</p>
<p>Strong programs in the liberal arts are English, history and since it is a Catholic university, philosophy and theology. The science programs tend to take a back seat to the nursing and pharmacy programs. The psychology program focuses on phenomenology as opposed to behaviorism that is taught in most collegiate psychology department. Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA, earned his degrees in political science at Duquesne.</p>
<p>The business school traditionally has been a source for middle managers in Pittsburgh corporations and what we used to call the Big Eight accounting firms. However, Pittsburgh’s business community is no longer as large as it once was.</p>
<p>The education school’s best program was special education when I was there. But for the most part, the education school at Duquesne is much stronger on the graduate level, producing principals and school superintendents.</p>
<p>The music school focuses on music education, but there are programs in performance, music therepy and sacred music.</p>
<p>Most of the students come from the middle Atlantic or midwestern states. About one-third of the students aren’t Catholic. For the most part, Duquesne students are upwardly mobile, and career oriented.</p>