Facilities

  • Major buildings: 36
  • Central campus: 77 acres
  • Recreation complex: 203 acres
  • Bousson nature reserve: 283 acres

Allegheny boasts one of the country’s most attractive campuses. Facilities include:

  • Nationally acclaimed science complex
  • David V. Wise Sport & Fitness Center
  • Bowman, Penelec & Megahan art galleries
  • Newly renovated Pelletier Library, which houses the Learning Commons and offers combined resources of more than 900,000 volumes, inter-library loans and documents, research tools, computer clusters, and rooms for meetings or studying
  • Special-interest houses (past houses include an international theme and a jazz theme)
  • Dance studios and performance spaces
  • Multimedia language learning lab
  • “Smart classrooms” and state-of-the-art videoconferencing facilities
  • Observatory and planetarium
  • WARC radio and ACTV television stations
  • GIS Learning Laboratory

The Kaplan college guide profiles Allegheny in the categories of “Hidden Treasures” and “Most Beautiful Campuses.”