US News & World Report ranks CIT in the top ten Engineering Colleges for both Graduate and Undergraduate education.

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

CIT has 19 faculty members in the National Academy of Engineering. In 2006 alone, five new CIT faculty members were inducted.

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

CIT has 126 tenure-track faculty members. That is 26% of the total number of tenure-track faculty members at Carnegie Mellon.

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

The number of freshmen that applied for admission to the College of Engineering in 2006-2007 was 4,508. Only 443 were enrolled as first-year students.

Students accepted into the class of 2010 were ranked in the top 6% of their high school class and had an average GPA of 3.67.

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

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

CIT offers a five-year joint Bachelors and Masters degree in all five of the traditional majors.

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