Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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Pennsylvania /
Bloomfield /
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania /
Forbes Avenue, 5000
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university, contractor, scientific research institute / centre
Carnegie Mellon University (also known as Carnegie Mellon or simply CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The University’s 140-acre (0.57 km2) main campus is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Downtown Pittsburgh and abuts the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Schenley Park, and the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in the city's Oakland neighborhood, partially extending into Squirrel Hill and Shadyside.
Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, School of Computer Science, andH. John Heinz III College.Carnegie Mellon students come from all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries. It consistently ranks among the top 25 universities in the United States and was named one of the "New Ivies" by Newsweek in 2006.
Carnegie Mellon is a major defense contractor in Pennsylvania. Including contracts for computer programming research at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Dollar Amount of combined Defense Contracts Awarded to this Contractor at this site from 2000 to 2010 = $ 800,123,015
Contract(s) were principally for supply of technology research projects
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www.cmu.edu/
www.cmu.edu/about/visit/campus-map.shtml
The main administrative building (and mailing address of "5000 Forbes Avenue" used by much of the campus) is:
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Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the Carnegie Institute of Technology (engineering), College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, School of Computer Science, andH. John Heinz III College.Carnegie Mellon students come from all 50 U.S. states and 93 countries. It consistently ranks among the top 25 universities in the United States and was named one of the "New Ivies" by Newsweek in 2006.
Carnegie Mellon is a major defense contractor in Pennsylvania. Including contracts for computer programming research at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Dollar Amount of combined Defense Contracts Awarded to this Contractor at this site from 2000 to 2010 = $ 800,123,015
Contract(s) were principally for supply of technology research projects
www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/carne...
www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/carne...
www.cmu.edu/
www.cmu.edu/about/visit/campus-map.shtml
The main administrative building (and mailing address of "5000 Forbes Avenue" used by much of the campus) is:
wikimapia.org/17465/Warner-Hall
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 40°26'37"N 79°56'40"W
- University of Pittsburgh 2.1 km
- Chatham University - Eden Hall Campus 25 km
- Seton Hill University 36 km
- Franciscan University of Steubenville 59 km
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania 69 km
- West Virginia University 84 km
- WVU Animal Sciences Farm 86 km
- Mount Union College 112 km
- Frostburg State University 122 km
- Kent State University Stark 135 km
- Schenley Park 1 km
- Central Oakland Neighborhood 1.1 km
- North Oakland Neighborhood 1.2 km
- Squirrel Hill North Neighborhood 1.2 km
- South Oakland Neighborhood 1.9 km
- Terrace Village Neighborhood 2.1 km
- Greenfield Neighborhood 2.2 km
- Hill District 2.5 km
- Squirrel Hill South Neighborhood 2.6 km
- Southside Flats Neighborhood 3.7 km
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