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- EIN 25-0969449
- (412) 268-1358
- 5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh PA 15213-3815 USA
- www.cmu.edu
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Nonprofit Overview
Mission: To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. To cultivate a transformative university community committed to (a) attracting and retaining diverse, world-class talent; (b) creating a collaborative environment open to the free exchange of ideas, where research, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship can flourish; and (c) ensuring individuals can achieve their full potential. To impact society in a transformative way - regionally, nationally, and globally - by engaging with partners outside the traditional borders of the university campus.
Programs: Instruction:carnegie mellon is a hybrid of a technical institute, fine-arts conservatory and traditional research university, having evolved in response to emerging social needs and intellectual development of the past century. Uniting technology and arts, fusing the practical with the imaginative, maintaining its educational emphasis on developing skills to solve problems. Includes 7 colleges and schools offering degree programs and more than 100 majors and minors to approximately 13,961 undergraduates, graduates and doctoral students. Instruction includes academic support and student services. Carnegie mellon has its main campus in pittsburgh, satellite campuses in silicon valley and doha, qatar, and degree-granting programs in coordination with global programs including australia, japan, portugal, rwanda, singapore and china. Nationally and globally, carnegie mellon has become a major voice of connectivity in technology, expansion of educational opportunity and economic development.
research:carnegie mellon holds a proud vision of itself as a distinctive and different kind of research university where nationally recognized programs from across the leading disciplines, from computing and engineering to fine arts, intersect. It is a decentralized community of scientists and intellectuals, artists and policymakers, business experts and poets. The diverse and decentralized community that characterizes carnegie mellon culture rests on a set of core underpinnings and a strong commitment to real-world problem solving, interdisciplinary collaboration and hard work, combined with joie de vivre. Each of these requires connections among engineering, science, policy and management, and the arts. Basic research is performed in all 7 colleges and schools and the software engineering institute. Carnegie mellon is also the home of numerous research institutes and centers focusing on some of the world's greatest challenges. Carnegie mellon's research-intensive environment provides a rich setting for the university's educational offerings and aspirations. The search for new knowledge and a spirit of ongoing critical inquiry are the ideals that permeate its approach to teaching and its expectations for what students will achieve.
auxiliary services:services to support the instruction and research functions of the university. These services include but are not limited to housing, dining services, parking, bookstore, printing, telecommunications, and other services related to the delivery of education.
other program services:other fees and memberships, external support and services and other miscellaneous program service revenue that supports the instruction, research, and auxiliary functions of the university.