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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private research uni-
versity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It began as the Carnegie
Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school
became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year de-
grees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon
Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The
Universitys 140-acre main campus is three miles from Downtown Pittsburgh
and abuts the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city’s Oakland
neighborhood.
The University has 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 Tepper School of
Business, the School of Computer Science, and the H. John Heinz III School
of Public Policy and Management.
Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned in-
stitution, with numerous programs that are frequently ranked among the best
in the world. In the most recent release of the Top 200 World Universities
by Times Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon was ranked 20th overall and
7th in technology.[5] In the 2008 edition, U.S. News World Report ranked
Carnegie Mellon’s undergraduate program 22nd in the nation amongst na-
tional research universities, and in the 2009 edition its graduate programs in
Computer Science 4th, Engineering 7th, Business 17th, Public Affairs 10th,
Fine Arts 7th and Psychology 9th. The university attracts students from
all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries and was named one of the ”New Ivies”
by Newsweek in 2006. Peer institutions of Carnegie Mellon include Caltech,
Cornell, Duke, Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton,
RPI, and Stanford.[6]

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