Colleges Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University www.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon University is a private institution that was founded in 1900 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It’s set on a 157-acre campus in the city of Pittsburgh between Schenley Park and the neighborhoods of Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland. The main campus is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Downtown Pittsburgh offers dining and entertainment options as well as professional sports teams including the Penguins (hockey), Steelers (football) and Pirates (baseball). Only freshmen are required to live on campus, but the University guarantees housing for all four years, and the majority of students choose to remain on campus. Since its founding, Carnegie Mellon has been the birthplace of innovation. CMU is widely recognized for its unique standing at the nexus of technology and society, where it produces, harnesses, and leverages technological advances to improve the human condition.

Academics

Carnegie Mellon is known for its programs in science and technology, but its seven schools and colleges include the College of Fine Arts and the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Its graduate programs include the highly acclaimed Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and School of Computer Science. Undergraduates have the opportunity to participate in research and can even receive grants or summer fellowships to support research in their field of study. CMU is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activities. The student-faculty ratio at CMU is 6:1, and the school has 70% of classes with fewer than 20 students. Popular majors include Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Special Highlights

Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. The Center works with its partners to serve the entire CMU community to accelerate bringing research innovations and promising ideas to the global marketplace and helping all entrepreneurial students, faculty, staff and alumni tap into the “innovation ecosystem.” Experiential learning programs take students out of the classroom and into real startup ventures and enterprises. There, students gain one-of-a-kind insights and experiences, leading to entrepreneurship development that extends beyond just academia.

Student College. StuCo is an educational organization involving hundreds of CMU students. The Student College was created to provide Carnegie Mellon students the opportunity to share knowledge through educational, self-designed courses. Students can teach classes on any topic of their choice. If you know something unique, have a special interest, or have some special skill or talent and would like to share it with your peers in an educational setting, then teach a StuCo course!

School Mission & Unique Qualities

Carnegie Mellon is known for its advances in research and new fields of study, home to many firsts in computer science (including the first machine learning, robotics, and computational biology departments), pioneering the field of management science, and the first drama program in the United States. CMU’s robust intercollege degree programs give students the freedom to individualize their educational experience by promoting integration and balance in the sciences, engineering, humanities, and the arts. CMU is a global university that offers more than a dozen degree-granting programs around the world, including locations in Africa, Australia, Silicon Valley, and Qatar. Today, more than 100,000 alumni live and work around the globe, embodying founder Andrew Carnegie’s famous words, “My heart is in the work.”

Student Reviews…

“My experience at CMU is so rewarding because I am surrounded by some of the greatest minds of the world. I’m sitting among kids who code apps in their free time, run their own businesses, or build robots for fun. You cannot find this kind of enthusiasm anywhere else!”