Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University, also known as CMU, is a private, research university located in Pittsburgh.

It was established as the Carnegie Technical Schools by philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie in 1900 and became the degree-granting Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912.

Carnegie Tech, as it was called, merged with the Mellon Institute to become Carnegie Mellon University in 1967.

The campus covers 140 acres. Carnegie Mellon University has more than 11,000 students and 4,000 faculty and staff and s a student-faculty ratio of 10:1.

U.S. News & World Report (2009 edition) ranked Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate program 22nd in the nation amongst national research universities.

CMU offers a wide variety of degrees and programs in diverse areas of study. It is organized into the following academic divisions:

Carnegie Institute of Technology
College of Fine Arts
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
H. John Heinz III College
Mellon College of Science
School of Computer Science
Tepper School of Business

CMU has an active Greek life, a tradition that began with the founding of the first fraternity on campus, Theta Xi, in 1912. Today there are several fraternities and sororities--governed by the Panhellenic council, Interfraternity Council, and National Pan-Hellenic Council.

Scottish tradition is also strong on campus, because of founder Andrew Carnegie's background. Among student organizations are the Bagpipers, a Pipe Band that performs at formal university events. The university is one of the few in the United States to offer a degree in bagpipes.

Carnegie Mellon teams are known as the Tartans. The school is a member of the Division III in the NCAA and of the University Athletic Association.

Among the notable alumni of Carnegie Mellon are John Forbes Nash, Economics Nobel Laureate, subject of "A Beautiful Mind"; Edward Feingenbaum, Turing Award recipient for work on artificial intelligence; Dina Dublon, former executive vice president/CFO of J. P. Morgan Chase; Aditya Agarwal, director of engineering at Facebook; actors Rene Auberjonois, Shari Belafonte, Ted Danson, Tamara Tunie, Cherry Jones, Holly Hunter, and Jack Klugman; film director Rob Marshall; Andy Warhol, American painter, pop art movement leader; Henry Mancini, composer, winner of 20 Grammys and four Oscars; and Charles Erwin Wilson, U.S. Secretary of Defense under Dwight Eisenhower. The show "Pippin," by alumnus composer Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked," "Godspell"), originated as a Carnegie Mellon production. Singer Josh Groban and actor Ethan Hawke attended briefly.

Campus Location

5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
USA
Main Tel: (412) 268-2000
Web Site

The campus is in a large city.

Highlights

Where the school stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

Many students concentrating in mathematics, computer science and engineering, music, engineering, drama and performing arts, religion and philosophy, and art studies.
High faculty salary.
Large number of programs of study offered.
High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
Selective admissions.
Large number of students.
Good faculty-to-student ratio.
High male/female ratio.
Number of dorm rooms for students.
Racially diverse student body.

Other important characteristics:

Faculty tenure system
Library on-campus
Campus housing available
Study abroad option
Distance learning available
Part-time classes available
ROTC

Degrees Awarded (in 2008-2009)

Degree	Total Earned	Different Programs
Master	1,621	89
Bachelor	1,295	111
Doctorale	258	65

Students

Student enrollment was 10,326 in 2007-2008 (9,625 full-time equivalent).

About 57% of the freshmen class in 2008-2009 was male and women were 43% of the class.

Undergrads are 55% of enrolled students and graduate students are 45%.

About 1% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 99% of incoming freshmen.

Tuition and Other Costs (2008-2009)

Item	Cost
State Tuition and fees	$ 39,564
Room	$ 5,890
Board	$ 3,850
Books and supplies	$ 990
Other	$ 1,356

Financial Aid: Carnegie Mellon participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Similar Schools

Based on computer comparisons against all other US colleges, these schools appear to be most similar to Carnegie Mellon:

	School	Location	Enrollment
1	Brown University	Providence, RI	8,167
2	University of Chicago	Chicago, IL	14,538
3	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	19,782
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	10,220
5	University of Rochester	Rochester, NY	9,334
6	Duke University	Durham, NC	13,598
7	Rice University	Houston, TX	5,161
8	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, TN	11,847
9	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	7,261
10	Columbia University in the City of New York	New York, NY	22,655

Faculty

Tenure (2008-2009):

Full-Time Faculty		Total
With tenure		445
Without tenure; working toward tenure		173
Without tenure; tenure not available		574

Housing and Meals

Carnegie Mellon provides on-campus housing for 3,908 of its 9,625 (full-time) students (as of 2008-2009). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the University Athletic Association for major sports.

Admissions (2008-2009)

Applicants	Admitted
Men	20%
Women	44%
All	29%

SAT Test Scores:

SAT	Middle 50%
Verbal	620-720
Math	670-780
Writing	620-710

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees awarded in 2008-2009 in parentheses)

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (49 awarded)

Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
Architecture and Related Services
City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Environmental Design/Architecture

ART STUDIES (71 awarded)

Art/Art Studies
Arts Management

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (535 awarded)

Accounting
Business Administration and Management
Business Administration, Management and Operations
Business/Managerial Economics
E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Finance and Financial Management Services
Finance
Information Resources Management/CIO Training
International Business/Trade/Commerce
Management Information Systems
Management Science
Marketing/Marketing Management
Operations Management and Supervision
Organizational Behavior Studies

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (728 awarded)

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Computer Software Engineering
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
Computer and Information Sciences
Computer and Information Systems Security
Computer/Info Tech Services Administration & Management
Information Science/Studies
Information Technology

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (0 awarded)

Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Natural Resources Management and Policy

DESIGN (39 awarded)

Design and Applied Arts
Design and Visual Communications
Industrial Design

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (60 awarded)

Directing and Theatrical Production
Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts
Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
Playwriting and Screenwriting
Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
Theatre/Theatre Arts Management
Visual and Performing Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (0 awarded)

Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor

ENGINEERING (707 awarded)

Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Engineering
Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
Geological/Geophysical Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Materials Engineering
Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Operations Research

ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN (5 awarded)

Engineering Technology
Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (189 awarded)

Public Administration
Public Administration and Social Service Professions
Public Policy Analysis

FINE ARTS (0 awarded)

Fine Arts and Art Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (177 awarded)

Anthropology
Central/Middle and Eastern European Studies
Chinese Language and Literature
Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
Creative Writing
Economics
English Language and Literature
English Language and Literature/Letters
European Studies/Civilization
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
French Language and Literature
German Language and Literature
History
International Economics
International Relations and Affairs
Japanese Language and Literature
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Linguistics
Political Science and Government
Public/Applied History and Archival Administration
Russian Studies
Social Sciences
Sociology
Spanish Language and Literature
Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Technical and Business Writing

MATHEMATICS (121 awarded)

Applied Mathematics
Computational Mathematics
Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics
Statistics
Systems Science and Theory

MEDIA (86 awarded)

Animation, Interactive Tech, Video Graphics and Special Effects
Communication and Media Studies

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (40 awarded)

Health/Health Care Administration/Management
Medical Informatics

MUSIC (58 awarded)

Conducting
Jazz/Jazz Studies
Music Pedagogy
Music Performance
Music Theory and Composition
Music
Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Piano and Organ
Violin, Viola, Guitar and Other Stringed Instruments
Voice and Opera

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (0 awarded)

Film/Cinema Studies
Film/Video and Photographic Arts
Intermedia/Multimedia

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (18 awarded)

Ethics
Logic
Philosophy

SCIENCE (215 awarded)

Astrophysics
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology/Biological Sciences
Biometry/Biometrics
Biophysics
Biopsychology
Biotechnology
Chemical Physics
Chemistry
Physical Sciences
Physics
Polymer Chemistry
Science, Technology and Society

SCIENCE AND LABORATORY TECHNICIAN (0 awarded)

Science Technologies/Technicians

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (76 awarded)

Behavioral Sciences
Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Science
Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology
Psychology