Founded in 1900 with a gift from Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Mellon has grown from its humble roots as the Carnegie Technical Schools to become one of the world's most important research universities, characterized by great depth and strength in technology and the arts.

At Carnegie Mellon, we don't try to do everything, but when we choose to focus on a field, we seek to be the very best. Today we lead the world in research and teaching in those selected areas, in engineering, computer science and its applications, business, public policy, the visual and performing arts, and many of the subfields of science and the humanities.

Carnegie Mellon is a small place that believes strongly in the power of collaboration across disciplines and in learning by doing. Our interdisciplinary and problem-solving culture pervades all of our colleges and all that we do.

We make things here: paintings, software, robots, plays, solar houses, poems, biosensors, nanomaterials, fluorescent neurons, computer games, and screenplays--and much more. Carnegie Mellon people every day are working together to generate ideas that have the potential to change the world.

I invite you to learn more about this remarkable institution.


Jared L. Cohon
President, Carnegie Mellon University