<p>Pitt definitely has a campus. It’s not in the City of Pittsburgh that you see from the blimp when watching the Steeler games. It’s in an outlying neighborhood. It’s still considered city and it’s urban with a busy street 4-6 lane street intersecting the middle of the campus, but between the Tower of Learning set within a grassy lawn, the adjoining park and the other buildings on side streets it doesn’t feel like a big city (at least not to me, and I lived in Manhattan for a few years). On the other hand, you should keep in mind that those hospitals on one side of the street do have a LOT of ambulances and helicopters coming and going, and that there’s a busway on the main road. It’s not quiet, although I suspect based on my experience in NYC that you get to the point where you don’t hear the ambulances and traffic anymore. I’ve been to Pitt on Saturday mornings and on Sundays when it’s very quiet and peaceful.</p>
<p>One correction about Duquesne - it’s not really a city campus, oddly enough. Even though it sits on a bluff overlooking the downtown and is closer to the heart of downtown Pittsburgh than Pitt, Duquesne has a lovely campus with lots of green space. It sits next to another hospital. </p>
<p>Aside from Pitt, Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne, Pittsburgh has several other schools: Robert Morris University, Point Park College, Carlow, and Allegheny County Community College. Frankly, there are so many schools within a relatively short driving distance from Pittsburgh that it’s hard to remember them all: Washington & Jefferson, St. Vincent, LaRoche, Grove City, Slippery Rock, IUP, Waynesburg, branch campus of PSU, and more. Some schools like IUP have opened satellite campuses too, and Temple and Drexel have satellite med school programs.</p>