Summary: INTRODUCTION
The story of Carnegie
Mellon University is
unique and remark-
able. After its founding
in 1900 as the Carnegie
Technical Schools,
serving workers and
young men and wom-
en of the Pittsburgh
area, it quickly became
the degree-granting
Carnegie Institute of
Technology in 1912.
"Carnegie Tech," as it
was known, merged
with the Mellon Institute
to become Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Carnegie
Mellon has since soared to national and international lead-
ership in higher education--and it continues to be known

Source: Andrews, Peter B. - Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Collections: Mathematics