Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic college in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Established by individuals from the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne initially opened its entryways as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enlistment of 40 understudies and a personnel of six. In 1911, the school turned into the first Catholic college in Pennsylvania. It is the main Spiritan foundation of advanced education on the planet.
Duquesne has subsequent to extended to more than 10,000 graduate and college understudies inside of an independent 49-section of land (19.8 ha) ridge grounds in Pittsburgh's Bluff neighborhood. The school keeps up a partner grounds in Rome and incorporates ten schools of study. The college has universal understudies from more than 80 countries[4] albeit most understudies — around 80% — are from Pennsylvania or the encompassing area. Duquesne is viewed as an exploration college with high research action organization by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. There are more than 79,000 living graduated class of the college including two cardinals and the present religious administrator of Pittsburgh.
The Duquesne Dukes contend in NCAA Division I. Duquesne men's b-ball showed up twice in national title diversions in the 1950s and won the NIT title in 1955.
The Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost was established on October 1, 1878 by Fr. Joseph Strub and the Holy Ghost Fathers, who had been removed from Germany amid Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf six years prior. At the point when the school was established, it had six employees and 40 understudies. The school acquired its state contract in 1882.Students went to classes in a leased space over a pastry kitchen on Wylie Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. Duquesne set up itself at its present area on the Bluff and assembled the first five-story red block "Old Main" in 1885. At the time, it was the most astounding point on the Pittsburgh
