Carnegie Mellon is
a national research university of the USA with about 7,500 students and 3,000 staff. The institution was founded in 1900 in
Pittsburgh by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie's vision was to open
a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class
Pittsburghers.
The school was renamed
Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912. Thus it took another important step
in its transition into one of the nation's leading private research
universities. In 1967, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute to
form Carnegie Mellon University.
The university
today consists of the following seven colleges and schools.
The Carnegie Institute of Technology
(engineering),
The College of Fine
Arts
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
The Mellon College of Science
The
Graduate School of Industrial
Administration
The School of
Computer Science and
The H. John
Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
Carnegie Mellon's position in the fields of arts and
technology is unusual in higher education today. The
institution's prominence in the arts dates back to 1917 when it awarded
the first undergraduate degree in drama. And it has become a
national leader in technological fields such as computer science, robotics and engineering.
