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Quick Facts about CIT
  • U.S. News & World Report ranks CIT in the top 10 Engineering Colleges for both graduate and undergraduate education. Read more about CIT rankings.

  • The Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) became the College of Engineering in 1967, when Carnegie Mellon University was formed.

  • Carnegie Mellon has 21 faculty members in the National Academy of Engineering.

  • CIT is the second smallest school in the top 20 Engineering Colleges, with opportunity for true interdisciplinary research.

  • CIT offers a five-year joint bachelor's and master's degree in all five of the traditional majors.

  • CIT offers an accelerated master's program in Engineering & Technology Innovation Management.

  • CIT has more than 130 tenure-track faculty members. That is approximately 26% of the total number of tenure-track faculty members at Carnegie Mellon.

  • CIT students make up about 28% of the entire Carnegie Mellon student body.

  • CIT offers a unique joint degree with the Tepper School of Business where students can earn a BSE and an MBA in five years.

  • Students accepted into the class of 2012 were ranked in the top 5% of their high school class and had an average GPA of 3.71. Their average ACT composite is 31 and average SAT scores were: critical reading: 660, math: 740, and writing: 670.

  • Our Honors Research program offers undergraduates the chance to participate in faculty research efforts, contributing at the graduate-student level.

  • Almost 20% of CIT undergraduate students are from outside of the U.S.

  • Approximately half of CIT undergraduate students go on to graduate school.

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