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Carnegie Mellon University

Private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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academic calendar type	semester
admission rate	0.17 point in time: 2020
admission yield rate	0.36 point in time: 2020
affiliation	Association of Independent Technological Universities
API endpoint URL	https://login.cmu.edu/idp/shibboleth protocol: Shibboleth
athletics program	Carnegie Mellon Tartans
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	doctoral universities: very high research activity majority graduate research doctoral: comprehensive programs, no medical/veterinary school four-year, large, highly residential four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in balanced arts & sciences/professions, high graduate coexistence
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty
chairperson	Farnam Jahanian
child organization or unit	Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University Australia Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Heinz College Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Commons category	Carnegie Mellon University
coordinate location	40.4425, -79.9433
count of students	12,500 15,136 applies to part: full-time equivalent; point in time: 1 September 2021
country	United States
donations	441,715,065 United States dollar point in time: 2011 508,148,955 United States dollar point in time: 2012 513,377,037 United States dollar point in time: 2013 508,112,330 United States dollar point in time: 2015 576,147,639 United States dollar point in time: 2016 513,171,107 United States dollar point in time: 2017 536,663,044 United States dollar point in time: 2018 551,949,360 United States dollar point in time: 2019 615,553,392 United States dollar point in time: 2020 913,966,188 United States dollar point in time: 2021 741,288,509 United States dollar point in time: 2022 711,410,210 United States dollar point in time: 2023 499,287,173 United States dollar point in time: 2014 655,006,770 United States dollar point in time: 2024
employees	1,440
endowment	2,068,859,860 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 3,856,807,673 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2022 3,967,324,293 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2021
founder	Andrew Carnegie
funder	Open Society Foundations point in time: 2020; prize money: 40,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support the Human Rights Technology Program of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University Open Society Foundations point in time: 2019; prize money: 80,000 United States dollar; award rationale: To support the Center for Human Rights Science to continue exploration and documentation of emerging technologies, and build an evaluation framework for human rights impact of technology. Open Society Foundations point in time: 2017; prize money: 100,000 United States dollar; award rationale: To support the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University to use emerging technologies to advance accountability, transparency and justice in human rights investigations
grants	Dickson Prize in Science
has part(s)	Heinz College Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
headquarters location	Pittsburgh
image	CMU campus Cathedral Learning background.jpg
inception	1900
industry	higher education
instance of	private university research university private not-for-profit educational institution
IPv4 routing prefix	128.237.0.0/16 start time: 6 May 1987 128.2.0.0/16 start time: 17 April 1984
language used	English
legal form	Q130264573
located in the administrative territorial entity	Pittsburgh
logo image	Carnegie Mellon University wordmark.svg media legend: Logo de l'université Carnegie-Mellon. (fr)
mascot	Scotty the Scottie Dog
member of	Oak Ridge Associated Universities ORCID, Inc. point in time: October 2023 Digital Library Federation MetaArchive Cooperative Consortium of Social Science Associations arXiv point in time: 2021 Northeast University Semiconductor Network start time: 2023 DataCite Association of American Universities start time: 1982 Association of American Colleges and Universities American Council on Education National Humanities Alliance Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship start time: 2022 Coalition for Networked Information Center for Research Libraries Council on Governmental Relations
official name	Carnegie Mellon University
official website	https://cmu.edu language of work or name: English
owner of	Death Risk Rankings
postal code	15213-3890
product or material produced	software
ranking	95 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2019 91 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2018 80 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2017 68 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2016 61 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2015 62 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2014 52 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2013 51 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2012 58 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2010 55 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2011 62 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2008 61 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2003 62 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2004 54 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2005 56 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2006 60 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2007 95 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2020 97 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2021 53 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022 52 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2024 52 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2023 49 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012 57 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014 65 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015 62 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016 58 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017 47 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018 46 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019 48 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020 51 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021 58 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2025 65 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2026 27 determination method or standard: Times Higher Education World University Rankings; point in time: 2026
social media followers	61,064 point in time: 4 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17631078 57,697 point in time: 19 April 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17631078 67,002 point in time: 2 March 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17631078 250,095 point in time: 28 July 2022; LinkedIn company or organization ID: carnegie-mellon-university 57,981 point in time: 28 July 2022; Instagram username: carnegiemellon 73,299 point in time: 7 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 17631078
street address	5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890
topic's main category	Category:Carnegie Mellon University
total assets	4,737,719,181 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 2,276,264,220 United States dollar point in time: 2011 2,362,606,939 United States dollar point in time: 2012 2,587,518,108 United States dollar point in time: 2013 3,042,995,825 United States dollar point in time: 2015 3,905,199,493 United States dollar point in time: 2016 3,781,707,782 United States dollar point in time: 2017 4,067,622,368 United States dollar point in time: 2018 4,402,305,882 United States dollar point in time: 2019 6,284,436,792 United States dollar point in time: 2021 6,497,771,735 United States dollar point in time: 2022 6,841,480,872 United States dollar point in time: 2023 2,849,099,580 United States dollar point in time: 2014 7,165,712,587 United States dollar point in time: 2024
total revenue	1,153,711,410 United States dollar point in time: 2011 1,186,029,791 United States dollar point in time: 2012 1,231,733,839 United States dollar point in time: 2013 1,345,684,240 United States dollar point in time: 2015 1,428,661,731 United States dollar point in time: 2016 2,177,355,410 United States dollar point in time: 2017 1,526,822,729 United States dollar point in time: 2018 1,643,363,312 United States dollar point in time: 2019 1,850,131,561 United States dollar point in time: 2020 1,962,040,329 United States dollar point in time: 2021 1,976,389,642 United States dollar point in time: 2022 1,881,828,034 United States dollar point in time: 2023 1,272,756,554 United States dollar point in time: 2014 2,003,071,984 United States dollar point in time: 2024

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