Duquesne University

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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

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Motto "Spiritus est qui vivificat."
(It is the Spirit that gives life)
Established 1878
Type Private
Religious Affiliation Roman Catholic
Endowment $123.3 million [1]
President Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Undergraduates 5,751
Postgraduates 4,433
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus Urban, 47 acres [2]
Tuition (2006) $21,480 [3]
Colors Blue and Red
Mascot The Duke
Website http://www.duq.edu

Coordinates: 40.43611° N 79.99306° W

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne (pronounced "doo-kayne") first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of seven. The university has since expanded to over 10,000 students, and is located on a self-contained 47-acre hilltop campus on the "bluff" of downtown Pittsburgh.

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Today Duquesne University is a progressive, educational community that has more than tripled from its early 12.5 acres (51,000 m²) to its present, self-enclosed 47-acre (190,000 m²) campus in uptown Pittsburgh. Several recent renovations have added to Duquesne's campus, including a state-of-the-art health sciences facility, two parking garages, a multi-purposed recreation center, a Victorian campus throughway, and a theatre classroom complex.

Recently named one of the top ten Catholic universities in the US, Duquesne's academics are recognized both nationally and internationally. In May 2001, Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D., was elected president of Duquesne University by the Board of Directors. He succeeded John Murray, Jr., who served as president from 1988 to 2001.

Duquesne currently has a student enrollment of over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is comprised of several undergraduate and graduate schools, and offers degree programs on the baccalaureate, professional, masters and doctoral levels. The following institutions combined to form Duquesne University.

  • McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (1878)
  • Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
  • Duquesne School of Law (1911)
  • A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration (1913)
  • Mylan School of Pharmacy (1925)
  • Mary Pappert School of Music (1926)
  • School of Education (1929)
  • School of Nursing (1937)
  • Rangos School of Health Sciences (1990)
  • Leadership and Professional Advancement (2001)

As a result of its academic excellence, the University has signed agreements with institutions around the globe including schools in Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, England, China, Japan and Italy as well as the new Commonwealth of Independent States.

  • Duquesne is the home of the Tamburitzans, the longest-running multicultural song and dance company in the United States. Their shows are a unique ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures. The performers are full-time students who receive substantial scholarship awards from the university, with additional financial aid provided by Tamburitzans Scholarship Endowment Funds.
  • Duquesne also boasts three theatre groups, the Red Masquers, the Renaissance and Medieval Players, and Spotlight. Spotlight is a musical theatre company that puts on around two musicals per academic year, while the Red Masquers put on a variety of plays throughout the year. The Masquers annually perform three mainstage plays, generally consisting of one classical, one modern, and one contemporary. Additionally, they perform two sets of one act plays. Winter sees their Premieres, which are student-written, while Spring's One Acts for Charity are selected from professional playwrights. In recent years, they have also been participants in the Pittsburgh Monologue Project. The Renaissance and Medieval Players effort to give audiences a truly Medieval experience, performing religious plays, morality plays, farces, etc. from the English Medieval and Early Renaissance periods, sometimes working in conjunction with the Red Masquers.

For season-by-season men's basketball and football results, see Duquesne Dukes.

  • The 1939-40 Dukes basketball team finished with a 20-3 record and appeared in the Final Four of both the NIT and NCAA Tournaments.
  • No team has had as many Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball scoring champions as Duquesne.
  • The men's basketball Dukes annually play their cross-town rival University of Pittsburgh Panthers in Pittsburgh's much anticipated and highly attended City Game. The Dukes women's basketball team also plays the University of Pittsburgh every year in the women's version of the City Game.
  • Duquesne plays football in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, winning or sharing, to date, ten conference titles, including eight in a row and 10 out of the last 12. (The only shared conference title came in 2006 with Marist College, whom the Dukes defeated earlier in the season.) Duquesne was the ECAC Bowl champions and NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major National Champion in 2003. (The team was the 1995 ECAC Bowl Champions as well.)
  • The Dukes also had NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) success in the past, winning the 1934 Festival of Palms Bowl (played on January 1, 1934 but part of the 1933 season) and 1937 Orange Bowl (played on January 1, 1937, but part of the 1936 season). (There was only one level of major college football at the time.) From 1933-45, Duquesne was among the elite college football teams in the United States, garnering the sixth-highest winning percentage (71-22-2, .762) in the nation behind Alabama, Tennessee, Duke, Fordham, and Notre Dame.
  • Duquesne is noted for establishing numerous "firsts" in collegiate football. Former head coach Elmer Layden is credited with devising the system of hand signals that officials use today. The signal system was put to use for the first time on November 11, 1928, when Duquesne hosted Thiel College at Pitt Stadium. Layden was also the first coach to use two sets of uniform jerseys for home and away contests. In 1929, graduate student manager John Holohan conceived the idea of Pittsburgh's first night game at Forbes Field. On the evening of November 2 that year, the Dukes made history by defeating Geneva College, 27-7, in front of more than 27,000 spectators.
  • At the club level, Duquesne won the 1973 National Club Football Association National Championship.
  • The National Football League's Pittsburgh franchise has drafted more players out of Duquesne University than any other institution.
  • The Dukes football team also boasts the greatest all-time conference winning streak in NCAA Division I FCS history with 39 straight wins in the MAAC. The 39-game streak also ties for the second-longest conference winning streak in NCAA Division I history, just five games shy of the all-time record.
  • Duquesne's first full/"postseason" Atlantic 10 team championship came in the fall of 2005 in men's cross country, but the Dukes were also men's basketball champions of the Eastern Athletic Association in 1977. (This association was the forerunner to the current Atlantic 10 Conference.) The Dukes have also won numerous regular season Atlantic 10 team championships. Men's basketball was co-champion of the league's regular seasons in both 1980 and 1981. Men's soccer was co-champion of the league's regular season in 2003, sole champion in 2004, and again co-champion in 2005. Women's lacrosse was co-champion of the league's regular seasons in both 2004 and 2005.

For a complete list of the university's Atlantic 10 champions, both team and individual, see Duquesne University Atlantic 10 Champions.

  • The Dukes wrestling squad has also been immensely successful, though it competes as an Independent in NCAA Division I. The Dukes wrestlers have won two NCAA Division I East Regional Championships (2000 and 2005) and have sent at least one wrestler to the NCAA Championships every year during John Hartupee's nine seasons as head coach, the position he still currently holds.
  • Duquesne also fielded an NCAA varsity rifle team for many years (a coed sport). This team competed in the Middle Atlantic Rifle Conference, claiming a share of the conference title for the 2001-2002 season. The team officially disbanded after the 2003-2004 season.


The Atlantic 10
Charlotte • Dayton • Duquesne • Fordham • George Washington • La Salle • UMass • Rhode Island • Richmond • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Joseph's • Saint Louis • Temple • Xavier
MAAC Football League
La Salle • Duquesne • Iona • Marist • St. Peter's
Universities and Colleges in the Pittsburgh Metro Area
Universities California University of Pennsylvania | Carnegie Mellon University | Duquesne University | University of Pittsburgh | Penn State Beaver | Penn State Greater Allegheny | Penn State New Kensington | Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Colleges Art Institute of Pittsburgh | Carlow University | Chatham | Community College of Allegheny County | Community College of Beaver County | Geneva | La Roche | Point Park University | Robert Morris University | Saint Vincent College | Seton Hill University | Washington & Jefferson College | Pittsburgh Theological Seminary | Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry | Waynesburg College | Westminster College
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