Carnegie Mellon University
Private research university founded in Pittsburgh in 1900 with campuses in Silicon Valley, Qatar and Africa and a planned campus in Miami. It reported FY2025 operating revenue of $1.8 billion.
Industry: Higher education and research | Location: Pittsburgh, United States | Founded: 1900
About Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its website describes a university without borders, with campuses in Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley, Qatar and Africa and a planned campus in Miami that is subject to regulatory approvals. As of the figures on its About page it has more than 16,500 students from over 130 countries, more than 1,600 faculty and more than 127,000 alumni.
Andrew Carnegie gave 1 million dollars to the city of Pittsburgh in 1900 to fund the Carnegie Technical Schools, which admitted their first class in 1906. The school became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and merged with the Mellon Institute research centre in 1967 to form Carnegie Mellon University. Farnam Jahanian is its tenth president and James H. Garrett Jr. is provost and chief academic officer.
The university's history page records the Graduate School of Industrial Administration in 1948, which became the Tepper School of Business, the School of Urban and Public Affairs in 1968, now the Heinz College, and the School of Computer Science in 1986. The About page names its Business Analytics Graduate Program, its Artificial Intelligence Program and its School of Drama among its top-ranked programmes.
Its international expansion began with a Silicon Valley campus in 2002 and a campus in Qatar in 2004, which opened with 41 students. An agreement with the Government of Rwanda in 2011 established CMU-Africa. In 2026 the university announced a Miami campus, which the history page says is funded by a 3 billion dollar donation from Ken Griffin.
In June 2026 TechScoop reported that sessions tied to Carnegie Mellon on the science of learning form part of the support package for the third Egyptian cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, run by EdVentures with the Mastercard Foundation.
For the fiscal year ended 30 June 2025, Chief Financial Officer Angela Blanton reported operating revenue of 1.8 billion dollars, operating expenses of 1.7 billion dollars and an operating gain of 78.4 million dollars. Net assets stood at 6.3 billion dollars and the endowment at 3.5 billion dollars.
Leadership
- Farnam Jahanian, President
- James H. Garrett Jr., Provost and Chief Academic Officer
- Angela Blanton, Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer
- Charles A. Kennedy, Chief Investment Officer