Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
Duquesne University is a private, Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a large city, with 5,350 undergraduates. Health professions is its signature field: 35% of its bachelor's degrees, about four times its share across the colleges we cover. 78% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $74,742 ten years after starting.
Duquesne University admitted 11,464 of 13,270 applicants for the fall 2025 entering class (86.4%).
- Acceptance rate
- 86.4%
- Fall 2025 class
- Tuition and fees
- $48,986
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $37,730
- Average, students with aid
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1130–1333
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2025 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Duquesne University is known for
Measured by the 1,521 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Health professions
34.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: about four times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing25917.0% of degrees$84,802−5% vs $88,910 nationally
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration1167.6% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Marketing1006.6% of degrees$66,542About the $69,303 national median
- Psychology754.9% of degrees$48,850About the $50,706 national median
- Biology744.9% of degrees$70,958+24% vs $57,214 nationally
- Finance and Financial Management Services664.3% of degrees$83,781About the $83,343 national median
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
Pittsburgh, PA
Undergraduates
5,350
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral university, high research activity
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
12 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
3%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Duquesne University
Three things Duquesne University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
77 admitted from a waitlist of 435.
422 students accepted a place on that list, and 77 were admitted from it, 18.2% of the students who waited. A waitlist offer here is not a near-miss anyone can plan around.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
14% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 3% sent an ACT. Duquesne University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Families paid $37,730 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
86.4%
11,464 admitted of 13,270 applicants
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
SAT, middle 50%
1130–1333
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
ACT, middle 50%
25–30
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Average GPA of admitted students
3.76
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
14%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
3%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Where do you actually stand at Duquesne University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Duquesne University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $48,986, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $67,776. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $37,730 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$48,986
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$67,776
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$37,730
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $67,776 full cost.
- Under $30k$29,986Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$31,729Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$32,102Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$35,611Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$41,273Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
78%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
84%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$74,742
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$26,244
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Duquesne University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Class rank
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The waitlist, as the school reported it
Published counts, including the ones schools rarely lead with.
- Offered a waitlist place
- 435
- Accepted the place
- 422
- Admitted from the waitlist
- 77
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2025
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Pennsylvania
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia86.4%
- Albright College86.2%
- La Salle University86.2%
- Temple University86.2%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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