Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University, a privately controlled university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university consists of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which offers courses in engineering; the Mellon College of Science; a college of humanities and social sciences; a college of fine arts; a school of public policy and management; a school of computer science; and a graduate school of industrial administration.
The university was formed by the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute in 1967. The Carnegie Institute of Technology grew out of the Carnegie Technical Schools founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. It opened in 1905. The Mellon Institute was founded by Andrew W. and Richard B. Mellon in 1913.