Carnegie Mellon University

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

www.cmu.edu

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Pittsburgh, PA 7,365 13% 22% 97% 90% 3.9 34 1510 100

Carnegie Mellon University is a private institution that was founded in 1900. It’s located in the industrial city of Pittsburgh on 153 acres, and was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Since its founding, Carnegie Mellon has been the birthplace of innovation. Its groundbreaking research yields new discoveries, and its creativity shapes the fine arts from Broadway to Hollywood. 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. CMU’s student-faculty ratio is 13:1, and the school has 66% 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

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. Carnegie Mellon’s main campus is in Pittsburgh with 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!”