Overview

A private university in suburban Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University prepares students for great careers and great lives.

With more than 80 undergraduate and 35 master's and doctoral programs, plus a variety of professional certificates and customizable programs for corporate and organizational partners, RMU builds on nearly a century of educational excellence.

RMU ranks among the top 50 Best Value Schools as per US News & World Report. It is one of the Princeton Review 2022 “Best Regional Colleges” for the Northeastern USA region. RMU is also in the 2022 Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education College rankings. RMU is one of the region’s most affordable private universities.

The core campus consists of a 230 acres (0.93 km2) tract in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh near Pittsburgh International Airport. The main campus building is Nicholson Center, which houses dining and meeting facilities, classrooms and faculty offices, and a bookstore. It is attached to the Patrick Henry Center, which houses the library, a TV studio, and numerous offices and classrooms. RMU participates in inter-library lending consortia PALINET and PALCI that allow RMU students to borrow books on site from most of the college and university libraries in the Pittsburgh area.

Along with an official RMU application, students seeking to enroll as first-time freshmen must submit official high school transcripts showing all grades and GPA, or a General Equivalency Diploma (GED). Preference is given to students with a 3.0 GPA or higher.