PTC Profile
Features of the PTC Campus
- 180-acre campus
- 170,000 square-foot main academic building
- 15,000 square-foot Energy Technology Center
- 61 classrooms with more than 44 hands-on learning and simulation labs
- Three campus residence halls accommodate 465 resident students
- The American Academy of Culinary Arts has two complete kitchens and a dining lab
- Recreational fields and courts for intramural softball, soccer, volleyball, flag football and basketball
- Exclusive Military Lounge


PTC Awards
- In 2020 Dr. Alicia Harvey-Smith was chosen as a Career Ready PA Champion by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
- PTC was ranked by “U.S. News & World Report” as a 2021 Best College in the Northern Region, as well as a top regional college for veterans, social mobility, and bachelor’s degree affordability.
- In 2020 instructor Tracie Brady received a Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty Recognition Award by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
- Finalist, 2020 TECH50 CEO of the Year.
- Information Systems & Technology faculty members presented at the 2020 IACIS Conference and their research was named Best Paper and printed in a major industry publication.
- In 2020 the Criminal Justice program received the Outstanding Higher Education Partnership Award from the Salvation Army.
- In 2020 Cribs for Kids named Dr. Alicia Harvey- Smith a Woman of Achievement.
- Dr. Alicia Harvey-Smith was named a 2019 Woman of Influence by the “Pittsburgh Business Times.”
- In 2019 the “New Pittsburgh Courier” named Dr. Alicia Harvey-Smith a Woman of Excellence.
- 2019 Alicia Harvey-Smith, Ph.D., President of Pittsburgh Technical College received the “Houston Business Journal” Women Who Mean Business Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education and Technology.
- 2019 Alicia B. Harvey-Smith, Ph.D., President of Pittsburgh Technical College, received the Black History Achievement Award.
- Finalist, 2019 TECH50 Culture Leader of the Year
- Recognized as a Military Friendly School every year from 2009 to 2019 by G.I. Jobs.
- We were recognized as a Top Workplace from 2011 through 2018.
- Honored eight years between 2002 and 2018 with the Pennsylvania Association of Private School Administrators’ Outstanding Instructor of the Year Award.
- In 2017 Vice President of Education Eileen Steffan was a recipient of the 12th Annual Women of Achievement Award for Education presented by the Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala and Cribs for Kids.
- In 2014 Instructor John Nagy received the Lamp of Knowledge Award for Outstanding U.S. Educator sponsored by American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute.
- In 2013 Instructor Charles Eltringham received a national Educator of the Year Award from APSCU.
- Former President Greg DeFeo received the “Pittsburgh Business Times” 2013 Diamond Award honoring the region’s top CEOs and Presidents.
- Honored seven years between 2001 and 2013 with the Pennsylvania Association of Private School Administrators’ Community Service Award.
- In 2012 HR Director Nancy Sheppard Starr was recognized by the “Pittsburgh Business Times” Human Resources Leadership Award.
- 2009 alumnus Joyce Leonard was honored as one of the nation’s outstanding college career graduates by APSCU.
- Recognized in 2009 with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
- Voted #1 in the “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s” 2007 survey of the “Best Places to Work.”
