The Office of the Provost supports a portfolio of centers and hubs that extend the University's academic mission beyond the boundaries of individual schools and departments. These initiatives address areas of strategic University-wide importance — from expanding access to education and supporting student success to advancing emerging fields like AI and data science and strengthening pathways to college for the next generation of Pitt students. By housing these centers within the provost's office, the University ensures that efforts with broad institutional impact have the senior academic leadership and cross-unit coordination they need to thrive.
The University of Pittsburgh Center for Excellence in Digital Education, or Pitt EDGE, supports the planning, development and implementation of online, hybrid and continuing education programming through centralized services and the engagement of existing teams within the University’s 16 schools, including the Health Sciences.
The English Language Institute (ELI) provides courses for international students who want to improve their English for academic, professional, or personal reasons.
HAIL unifies the University of Pittsburgh's AI and data science efforts under one collaborative hub, equipping learners, researchers, and practitioners to lead responsibly in an AI-driven world. By aligning people, programs, and practices, HAIL amplifies the impact of work already happening across the University while creating new pathways for shared learning and coordinated action.
The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) is the University of Pittsburgh's University-wide sustainability center focused on catalyzing sustainability research and education. MCSI leads Pitt's faculty sustainability engagement via strategy programs focused on integrating sustainability into the curriculum, groundbreaking sustainability research, community outreach, and innovation. Its various student opportunities focus on exploring and experiencing sustainability in research, practice, and performance. MCSI also creates opportunities to coordinate academic collaborations across campus with Pitt's other sustainability-focused and -related research centers.
The Pre-Health Resource Center is a team of advisors dedicated to helping you discover your passion and transform it into a future career within the health science disciplines. The center focuses on Pitt’s undergraduate pre-health population and provides in-person advising, online tools, career resources, and pre-health focused workshops.
The Student Success Hub exists as a space for students to collaborate with each other and with University resources. With rooms available to reserve for group work, spaces to study, and on-demand academic resources and coaches, the Student Success Hub serves as a place for every student to feel like they belong and will succeed at Pitt.
The University Center for Teaching and Learning strives to inspire excellence and innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarly activities at the University of Pittsburgh. Turn to The Teaching Center for expertise and support in instructional design and development; instructional technologies; assessment, measurement and evaluation of teaching; professional creative and production services for University events and activities; and other resources, tools, services, and training and workshop opportunities.
The University Educational Outreach Center supports University-wide academic outreach efforts by expanding relationships throughout the city, county and region in order to create and strengthen pathways for students to gain the potential to enroll at the University of Pittsburgh or other select colleges and universities.