Pittsburgh has around a population of 305,000 inhabitants living within the commonwealth’s second largest city. The city is located southeast of the Ohio River in the north east of the United States of America. Pittsburgh is characterized by the Appalachia border. The city is renowned for its number of bridges (446) and its steel-related businesses spanning over 300 of them. Pittsburgh has four main areas (North side, south side, east end and west end) surrounding the Golden triangle (downtown area) containing 90 neighbourhoods. The downtown area is the cultural district with art venues and theatres, sports and literature.Pittsburgh has several public schools including charter and magnet schools, City Charter High School, Pittsburgh Montessori School, Pittsburgh Gifted Center and Barack Obama Academy of International. The city also has many private schools including North Catholic High School, Bishop Canevin High School, Seton-La Salle Catholic High School and Central Catholic High School.Carnegie Mellon University is Pittsburgh main university with around, 15,000 students. It’s a private institution with 7 colleges and schools including, the College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Carnegie was rated 24th university in the world and the best technology school in the United States.The University of Pittsburgh has 17 schools and colleges with around 28,000 enrolled students. Pittsburgh University is located within the Oakland neighbourhood working as a commonwealth system of higher education. The university has 17 undergraduate and graduate schools. There are four undergraduate schools including the western Pennsylvania: Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. The university has a developed Greek system of 39 fraternities and sororities including Delta Phi, Pi Kappa Pi, Delta Zeta and Kappa Delta. The university has several sports teams including the Pittsburgh panthers (Athletics team), Football team and Pittsburgh panther’s men’s basketball team.
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