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.
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.