Hands-on, professional facilities
Centers & Facilities
Dedicated to giving students hands-on knowledge to prepare them for their careers, Point Park boasts cutting-edge, world-class facilities and is home to multiple centers where ideas are fostered and students can gain professional experience.
Center for Civic and Community Engagement
- Serves as a hub for the university to collaborate with the community to renew Downtown Pittsburgh
- Offices and collaborative meeting space centrally located at 101 Wood Street
- Provides students with opportunities to engage with community needs through volunteerism
Center for Experiential Narrative Technologies
- New center for emerging technologies in storytelling
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, generative artificial intelligence and immersive media
- Creative exploration for students interested in the entertainment, edutainment and social media fields
- Innovative facility with glass walls
- Multimedia newsroom and production spaces for video, audio and photography
- Hands-on experience for communication and other majors
- Crime scene investigation “house” on a floor in Academic Hall
- Training ground for criminal justice-related majors to process mock crime scenes and analyze evidence
- Instruction from a former chief forensic investigator for a real-world education
George Rowland White Dance Complex
- Grand dance complex
- Eight large dance studios, one converting into a performance space
- High ceilings for maximum space for dance majors’ leaps, patterns and lifts
- Two maker space lab locations with tools beneficial to students for STEM teaching
- Variety of equipment, including 3D printers and virtual reality goggles
- Workshops for education majors to practice lesson plans for success in actual school classrooms
Michael P. Pitterich Sales and Innovation Center
- High-tech facility for professional marketing and sales instruction
- Simulation spaces and technology-enhanced training room
- Sales competitions and other skill-building activities for business and related majors
- Leading executives from sports and entertainment industries speak to students
- Students gain hands-on experience coordinating the Bradenton Regatta
- Award-winning arts and entertainment center
- Three theaters, scenic fabrication studio, soundstage, prop shop, light shop, costume studio
- Professional opportunities for performing arts and other majors
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Matt's Maker Space
With Two On-Campus Maker Spaces, Point Park University's School of Education Builds Meaningful Classroom Experiences
Pittsburgh Center for Sports Media and Marketing
Pittsburgh Center for Sports Media and Marketing Gives Students First-Hand Experience at Bradenton Regatta in Florida
Crime Scene House
High School Students Work Together to Solve Crimes in the Crime Scene House at Point Park University's CSI Summer Camp
CENT
Center for Experiential Narrative Technologies Offers Students Cutting-Edge Training in Intersection of Technology and Art
Michael P. Pitterich Sales & Innovation Center
New Sales & Innovation Center Sets Up Marketing Students for Success in Collegiate Sales Competition
Center for Media Innovation
Point Park’s Teaching Newsroom Granted $550,000 from Heinz Endowments to Support Critical Media Ecosystems