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As a global leader in education, Carnegie Mellon University is known for its creativity, collaboration across disciplines, and top programs in business, technology and the arts. The university has been home to some of the world’s most important thinkers, among them 19 Nobel Laureates and 11 Turing Award winners.

In 2004, Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development invited Carnegie Mellon to join Education City, a groundbreaking center for scholarship and research. Carnegie Mellon accepted because the university’s goals as a global institution align with the goals of Qatar Foundation: to educate and develop students to become leaders and innovators, and to prepare them to be able to compete on the global stage. Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar offers undergraduate programs in biological sciences, business administration, computational biology, computer science and information systems.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar—like all Carnegie Mellon campuses globally—is founded on the firm belief that through the encouragement of scientific inquiry and the promotion of practical preparedness the university can provide a generation of thinkers, business leaders, researchers and scientists that will change the world. Carnegie Mellon implements its curriculum by maintaining the academic standards, values and principles of the home campus in Pittsburgh, USA, while delivering metacurricular programs that suitably reflect the ethos of Education City.

Graduates of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar are highly sought-after by regional and international organizations. More than 90 percent of the university’s alumni are either in graduate programs or employed in top organizations like HSBC, Google, Microsoft, Qatar Petroleum, Shell, and Sidra Medical and Research Center, to name a few.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar has a rich research program – for its students as well as its faculty. The university has been awarded 34 National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) grants from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), five Young Scientist Research Experience Program (YSREP) grants and 19 Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) grants. The total funding from QNRF is more than $30 million. Some of the research areas include cloud computing, robotics, Arabic language technologies, business process design, innovation-driven entrepreneurship, next-generation wireless networks, information security, and pathogenic fungi in the Qatari clinical setting.

Consistently top ranked, Carnegie Mellon has more than 12,000 students, 90,000 alumni and 5,000 faculty and staff globally. As Carnegie Mellon’s Qatar campus celebrates its 10^th anniversary, the campus continues to grow, providing a prestigious education to 400 students from 42 countries in a truly unique and multi-cultural environment.