Carnegie Mellon University will have a transformative impact on society through continual innovation in education, research, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
Carnegie Mellon University challenges the curious and passionate to imagine and deliver work that matters. A private, global research university, Carnegie Mellon stands among the world's most renowned educational institutions and sets its course. Start the journey here. With cutting-edge brain science, path-breaking performances, innovative start-ups, driverless cars, big data, big ambitions, Nobel and Turing prizes, hands-on learning, and many robots, CMU does not imagine the future; we create it.
A research university like no other, Carnegie Mellon is home to experts who lead their fields and create new ones. From computing to the arts to the environment to biotechnology, CMU students, faculty, and staff are shaping the future with a strong focus on finding practical answers to complex problems. Home to more than 100 centers and institutes, CMU affords its researchers the freedom to look across disciplines for solutions, benefiting from many perspectives.
Research is at the core of Carnegie Mellon and touches nearly every corner of the university. It is not by accident.
The Carnegie Mellon University experience embraces all aspects of a student's life. In the classroom, around the dinner table, students pursue their curiosities, passions, and aspirations on the playing fields or stage. Students become skilled and passionate scholars at CMU who embrace challenges and work across disciplines to find creative solutions to complex issues. Carnegie Mellon supports your social, physical, mental, and spiritual well-being so that you can thrive. Carnegie Mellon students are global citizens, engaging new people and experiences, building cross-cultural fluency, and seeing others' welfare.
Carnegie Mellon gives its graduates the communication skills, organizational savvy, and leadership training to succeed throughout life. Experiential learning, problem-solving, and the ability to put classroom knowledge to work creates the foundation for careers and more.
CMU is positioned like never before to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the coming years, the university will see the most massive expansion to the Pittsburgh campus since 1900.
At the intersection of technology and humanity, CMU research, innovation, and creativity will continue to guide our future as a world-class university. As outlined in the Strategic Plan 2025, the university will focus on advancing the individual student experience, the broader Carnegie Mellon community experience, and the social impact of Carnegie Mellon throughout the world.
A self-educated "working boy" who loved books, Andrew Carnegie, emigrated from Scotland in 1848 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pa. Attending night school and borrowing books, Carnegie went from a factory worker in a textile mill to a successful entrepreneur and industrialist. He rose to prominence by founding the world's largest steel producing company by the end of the 19th century. The richest man in the world, Carnegie believed that "to die rich is to die disgraced." He turned his attention to writing, social activism, and philanthropy, determined to establish educational opportunities for the general public where few existed.
In 1900, he donated $1 million to create a technical institute for Pittsburgh, envisioning a school where working-class men and women of Pittsburgh could learn practical skills, trades, and crafts that would enhance their careers, lives, and communities."My heart is in work," he stated, which would become part of the school's official motto. The Carnegie Technical Schools offered two- and three-year certificates in the arts and engineering disciplines and included a college for women, Margaret Morrison Carnegie College.
In 1967, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute, a science research center founded by Pittsburgh's Mellon family. Officially renamed Carnegie Mellon University, the merger was built upon a long history of support from the Mellons.
It allowed Carnegie Mellon to establish the last of its current pillars: the Mellon College of Science and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, now known as Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2017, Carnegie Mellon celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Carnegie Tech-Mellon Institute merger, revisiting the founders' shared vision and recognizing the impact it has had and will continue to have in the world of higher education, research and discovery.
In its 115 years, Carnegie Mellon has soared to national and international leadership in higher education and research. A birthplace of innovation since its founding, it continues to be known for innovation, for solving real-world problems, and for interdisciplinary collaboration. From Tony Award winners to Nobel Prize and Turing Award winners, its alumni can be found across the globe from CEOs to entrepreneurs, from professors to artists. In the 2000s, in response to demand for expanded international educational opportunities, Carnegie Mellon began offering degree programs outside Pittsburgh. Today its global presence includes campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, Calif., more than a dozen degree-granting locations, and more than 20 research partnerships such as Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., Australia, China, Portugal, and Rwanda.
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