Please refer to our homepage for detailed information.

University of Pittsburgh now is offering official picking up! Any student wants to get requests or inquiries for airport pick up, please check here: Graduate; Undergraduate

(This service is temporarily for new students of UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ONLY,  so sorry about the inconvenience for others.)

We encourage new students to come in groups, which will save a lot of money on plane tickets for yourselves, and also make it easy for us to pick up.

For pick-up, we need the following information from you:

• Flight information, including schedule and flight number
• Number of students coming together
• You planned destination in Pittsburgh

Please tell us as early as possible so that we can have enough time to arrange the service. We also encourage you to contact senior students in your department for pick-up.

We encourage you to contact senior students in your department for information about apartments. You can check our BBS regularly. There is always some valuable information for new students.

Following are some useful online resources:

• Temporary housing info: http://www.ois.pitt.edu/OrientationArrival/arrival.html#hotel
• To help find an apartment: http://www.ois.pitt.edu/LifePittsburgh.html#housing
• CSSA BBS housing board (Official BBS for PITTCSSA)
• Craigslist (Strongly recommend, also offering tremendous second hand but even brand new furniture and electronics)
• University of Pittsburgh Housing Resource
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The nearest bank for Pitt students & scholars are PNC bank and Citizens bank. The personal information you need to prepare is as follows:

• Your name
• Passport and Visa
• Telephone number (if available)
• Birthday
• Address (including your address in China and in US - if you haven't settled down, your department's address is also acceptable)
• 4-digit arbitrary numbers as the pin number