CMU is Carnegie Mellon University.
Carnegie Mellon University, referred to as CMU, is a private university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is the "New Ivy" and a member of the Global University Presidents Forum. It has 14,800 students and 1,483 teaching staff and scientific researchers.
Ranked 22nd in the 2023 U.S. News Best Universities in the United States, it has campuses in Pittsburgh, Silicon Valley, and Qatar. CMU was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1900 as Carnegie Technical School. In 1912, it was renamed Carnegie Mellon University and began to transform into a research university.
The two founders of Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, are both pivotal figures in modern American history. Carnegie was one of the four largest plutocrats in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. His wealth ranked second in the entire history of mankind, second only to the oil magnate Rockefeller.
Andrew Mellon is a famous American banker and the patriarch of the Mellon Financial Group. He served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932 and survived three governments. The Mellon Group is one of the world's largest asset management companies. It completed its merger with the Bank of New York in 2007. The official mascot is the Scottish Terrier.
School motto
Mr. Carnegie’s famous saying - My heart is in the work (My heart is in the work) is the motto of this university. Even after experiencing several major innovations in a century, This belief remains deeply ingrained in the entire university culture. Under the guidance of the school motto, Carnegie Mellon University has extremely strict training for students and heavy coursework.
In the "Princeton Review" annual "Ranking of Colleges with Students Tired Like Dogs", it has always ranked among the top, and is equal to the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, and Princeton University in the United States and even the United States. The most brutal training university in the world. In 2006, "News Week" named Carnegie Mellon University the "New Ivies".