Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon or CMU or ) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University.

The university's main campus is from Downtown Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and the School of Computer Science. The university also has campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, with degree-granting programs in six continents.

Carnegie Mellon is ranked 25th in the United States by "U.S. News & World Report" rankings. It is home to the world's first degree-granting Robotics and Drama programs, as well as one of the first Computer Science departments. The university was ranked 89th for R&D in 2015 having spent $242 million.

Carnegie Mellon counts 13,650 students from 114 countries, over 100,000 living alumni, and over 5,000 faculty and staff. Past and present faculty and alumni include 20 Nobel Prize Laureates, 12 Turing Award winners, 22 Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 19 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 72 Members of the National Academies, 114 Emmy Award winners, 44 Tony Award laureates, and 7 Academy Award winners.

1. Who started the Carnegie Technical Schools?
2. when?
3. Did it's name change?
4. To what?
5. when?
6. Could you only get a two year degree there?
7. What could you get?
8. What is it called now?
9. How did it get that name?
10. Where is it?
11. What state is that in?
12. Where doe the U.S. News and World Report place it?
13. How much did it invest in research and development in 2015?
14. What rank did they achieve because of that?
15. How many faculty and staff do they have?
16. How many students?
17. How many alumni that haven't died?
18. How many nations do their students come from?
19. Have any of their students won an Academy Award?
20. How many?

Numbered answers:
1. Andrew Carnegie
2. 1900
3. yes
4. Carnegie Institute of Technology
5. 1912
6. no
7. a four-year degree
8. Carnegie Mellon University.
9. merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
10. main campus is in Pittsburgh.
11. Pennsylvania.
12. 25th in the US
13. $242 million.
14. 89th for R&D
15. over 5,000 faculty and staff
16. 13,650
17. over 100,000
18. 114
19. yes
20. Seven