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  • CMU
Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh. It 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 km) main campus is three miles (5 km) from Downtown... full article at wikipedia