Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University, sometimes known simply as CMU, is a prestigious private research institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research combined to become what is now known as the university as a consequence of their merger. The precursor was formerly known as the Carnegie Technical Schools and was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. In 1912, it was renamed the Carnegie Institute of Technology and started awarding degrees that were four years in length. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was established in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and was a component of the University of Pittsburgh prior to its merger with the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1967. Both institutions were named after the Mellon family. Since the institutions merged, Carnegie Mellon has been functioning as a single entity.

The university is comprised of a total of seven colleges and independent schools, including the College of Engineering, the College of Fine Arts, the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Mellon College of Science, the Tepper School of Business, the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and the School of Computer Science. The university is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon University has over a dozen degree-granting locations across six continents, including degree-granting campuses in Qatar, Silicon Valley, and Kigali, Rwanda (Carnegie Mellon University Africa), as well as partnerships with universities located all across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Japan, China, Mexico, and Italy. The main campus of the university is located approximately five miles (eight kilometres) from the centre of Downtown Pittsburgh.

Carnegie Mellon University is well-known for its contributions to the advancement of research as well as the development of new areas of academic study. The university is particularly well-known for being the birthplace of many firsts in the field of computer science (including the first computer science, machine learning, and robotics departments), for being a pioneer in the field of management science, and for having the first drama programme in the United States. The Carnegie Mellon University falls under the category of "R1: Doctoral Universities - Very High Research Activity." The university's spending on research and development (R&D) were $386 million in the year 2020. There have been a total of 20 Nobel Prize winners, 13 Turing Award winners, 26 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 39 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 91 members of the National Academies, 142 Emmy Award winners, 52 Tony Award laureates, and 12 Academy Award winners among the institution's past and present faculty and alumni. Carnegie Mellon University has numerous campuses, where a total of 15,818 students from 117 countries are enrolled. The university also employs more than 1,400 academic members, and its active alumni base is over 112,000.