CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

THE UNIVERSITY

Carnegie Mellon has emerged as one of the nation's top private research universities.  The

university's interdisciplinary approach provides graduates with professional and technical skills and

a strong science and liberal arts background.  According to Edward B. Fiske, former education columnist

for the New York Times, Carnegie Mellon's "faculty and administration have done the most original

thinking of any American university in pursuing the twin goals of liberal-professional education."

Carnegie Mellon began in 1900 when industrialist Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Technical

Schools in Pittsburgh's Oakland section.  Twelve years later these schools became a degree-granting

college----the Carnegie Institute of Technology.  In 1967, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon

Institute of Research to form Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon's internationally recognized programs encompass the areas of engineering, technology,

science, liberal arts, fine arts and public and private management.  The university includes seven

colleges.

The College of Engineering (CIT) is one of the foremost engineering schools in the

United States.  Because of its emphasis on interdisciplinary research and partnerships with industry,

the college produces graduates who are able to transfer their fundamental engineering knowledge into

industrial practice.  Faculty bring their knowledge of real-world industrial problems into the classrooms

and laboratories.   The college includes six departments: Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental

Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Mechanical Engineering

and Materials Science and Engineering, plus a program in Biomedical Engineering.

The College of Fine Arts (CFA),  the first school in the nation to award a degree in drama , includes the

departments of Architecture, Art, Design, Drama and Music.

The Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) offers a Master of Science in Industrial

Administration, a degree roughly equivalent to an M.B.A., but with a firmer scientific component based on

the use of quantitative methods as management tools.  GSIA also offers doctoral and executive

education programs and now administers undergraduate programs in economics and business

administration.

The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management offers master's degrees in

public policy and management, health care policy and management, public management, arts

management, management information systems and sustainable economic development.  It also

offers a Ph.D. degree in public policy analysis and a range of executive and mid-career short

course and certification programs.  Through its master's programs, the Heinz School trains

students to serve in the public interest within the public, not-for-profit, interface and

private sectors.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) emphasizes in its research and teaching

the behaviors, institutions and beliefs that constitute the human experience.  The College is committed

to a balance among humanistic, scientific, and professional orientations in undergraduate education,

along with an emphasis on basic modes on inquiry and on integrating research experience into the

undergraduate training process.  Its departments include Economics, English, History, Modern

Languages, Philosophy, Psychology, Social and Decision Sciences and Statistics.

The Mellon College of Science (MCS)  strives to achieve excellence within a set of carefully

chosen areas of concentration, maximizing interdisciplinary contacts between and among the

departments and centers within the college and in other colleges. MCS researchers are taking the lead

in new programs and research centers dealing with computational biology, biomedical research, nuclear

magnetic resonance, polymers, molecular science, light microscopy, nonlinear analysis and astrophysics,

among many other areas.  The College includes four departments:  Biological Sciences,

Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences and Physics.

The School of Computer Science (SCS) operates at the forefront of research in computing, artificial

intelligence, machine translation and robotics.  The school grants doctoral degrees in computer science,

robotics, and language and information technologies, master's degrees in software engineering, language

technologies, and human-computer interaction, and an undergraduate degree in computer science.