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About Carnegie Mellon University - Australia

Carnegie Mellon University is an American, internationally renowned research university with campuses in Pittsburgh, Washington DC and Silicon Valley in the United States (US), Qatar in the Middle East, and Adelaide in Australia. The university consistently ranks in the top 50 universities in the world.

Carnegie Mellon University - Australia is a truly global university, with students, faculty and staff representing more than 25 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific, USA, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, creating wide-reaching networks of contemporaries, global experts and alumni.

Our Master Degree Programs

Carnegie Mellon University - Australia offers two internationally-ranked master degree programs:

  · Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) ranked #1 by the benchmark setting U.S News & World Report.

  · Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) ranked #4 by the benchmark setting U.S News & World Report.

Carnegie Mellon University upholds high admissions standards for our competitive and challenging programs to ensure they maintain the integrity of earning a degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, whether it is earned in Pittsburgh, Washington DC or Adelaide; the degree is the same.

An American University in Australia

Carnegie Mellon University is the first American university to establish a campus in Australia. The university chose to open a campus in Adelaide as part of the South Australian Government’s vision to establish Australia’s first international university precinct.

The precinct is situated in the heart of the city’s central business district and Carnegie Mellon University - Australia is co-located with the University College London's School of Energy and Resources (Australia), and world-class research and policy institutes including Cranfield University (UK) partner, the Torrens Resilience Institute, and The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.

Adelaide, the capital of South Australia is an ideal destination for students - an affordable, dynamic and safe environment in which to live and study, with a culturally diverse population of 1.2 million people. The city is vibrant, original and stylish, and renowned as a leader in social and cultural change. Adelaide is home to three other large universities, numerous cultural venues, affordable restaurants, and a warm and mild climate, with plenty to see and do.

History

R. K. Mellon's Vision

The Heinz College is the product of the deep concern of a leading Pittsburgh family over deteriorating urban centers in the United States and a university willing to create a school that would train students to address those critical social issues.

R. K. Mellon was a visible and influential businessman and philanthropist in Pittsburgh. In the early 1950s, he organized other corporate leaders to help initiate Pittsburgh's famed Renaissance, one of the first successful urban renewal programs in the United States.

He never lost his interest in urban affairs. In 1965 he sponsored a conference on urban issues at which a recommendation was made to create a graduate school to train leaders to address the complex problems of urban communities. Carnegie Institute of Technology's (now Carnegie Mellon) President H. Guyford Stever, Graduate School of Industrial Administration's Dean Richard Cyert, and Professors William Cooper and Otto Davis led the movement to make the idea a reality and produced a plan for the new school.

R.K. Mellon

 

With the vision firm and the plans in place, Mellon and his wife, Constance Prosser Mellon, through the R. K. Mellon Foundation, made a $10 million grant to fund the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) at Carnegie Institute of Technology. The first class of 13 enrolled in 1970.

Under the leadership of its earliest deans - William Cooper, Otto Davis and Brian Berry - the framework for the school was constructed, refined and expanded.

A Vision Accelerated

In 1975, responding to the need to open the doors of graduate education to minorities, especially African Americans, SUPA created the Quantitative Summer Skills Institute to give students a strong quantitative background to prepare them for advanced studies. The program includes training in statistics, economics and calculus and it continues today for students from all backgrounds.

In 1982, the Master of Public Management program was begun, headed by Associate Dean Harry Faulk.

Under Dean Alfred Blumstein, SUPA expanded the Urban Systems Institute, an original research organization that studied urban life from a variety of perspectives. During his tenure, the Masters of Arts Management program was started in 1986, to provide cultural organizations with leaders who possess the same level of expertise as their for-profit counterparts.

In 1991, Pennsylvania Senator H. John Heinz III was killed in an airplane accident. Heinz was an accomplished legislator and inspiring public servant who often initiated bipartisan efforts to benefit those most in need of assistance. In 1992, SUPA was renamed as the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (the Heinz School) in his honor, and Heinz's congressional papers were moved to Carnegie Mellon to form the Heinz Archives. The Heinz family continues to be an important part of the Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University.

Senator H. John Heinz III

The Heinz School grew tremendously in the mid-1990s under the leadership of Dr. Mark Kamlet. Several degree programs, including the Master of Science in Health Care Policy and Management, Master of Medical Management and Master of Educational Technology Management programs, were created. New institutes included the National Consortium on Violence Research , the Center for Economic Development , the Center for Arts Management and Technology , the Software Industry Center and the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society.

Under Kamlet's leadership the Heinz School was first recognized as one of the top schools of public policy, ranking in the top ten overall and in several specialty policy areas.

Research grants increased substantially in the 1990s as other organizations and government departments took the opportunity to fund and collaborate with the Heinz School on significant projects.

Under the tenure of Dr. Linda Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics, US News & World Report placed the Heinz School among the leadership schools as part of its annual rankings.

An additional area of interest for the school came during the tenure of Dr. Jeffrey Hunker and included a new Master of Science in Information Security Policy and Management program, an important new capability to the school.

In January 2004, Mark Wessel, who had served in a variety of administrative positions became dean. Under his tenure the Heinz School has expanded its programs world-wide, most recently extending its programs to Adelaide, Australia.

Today

The Heinz College has an international reputation for excellence in educational programs and faculty research. Its programs in information technology, security policy, arts management, health care policy and management, criminal justice policy, policy analysis, finance and environmental policy are respected across the nation and internationally as among the elite.

 

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