About Carnegie Mellon University Africa

In 2011, Carnegie Mellon University and the Government of Rwanda signed an agreement to establish a CMU location in Kigali, Rwanda. This partnership was designed to respond to the critical shortage of high-quality engineering talent required to harness Africa's tremendous potential as home to the fastest-growing workforce in the world.

CMU-Africa, located in Kigali Innovation City, is a regional ICT center of excellence educating a diverse composition of future leaders from all over Africa, who will use their hands-on skills and knowledge to advance technology innovation and grow businesses.

Carnegie Mellon University's presence in Rwanda continues to provide a platform to engage in Africa's most significant opportunities and challenges through world-class education and contextually relevant research.

Vision

CMU-Africa will have a transformative impact on African society through continual innovation in education, research, creativity, and entrepreneurship.

Mission

CMU-Africa delivers transformative educational programs to cultivate future technology leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators across Africa. The university engages in collaborative research and innovation to address African and global challenges.

CMU-Africa by the numbers

• 300+ students

• 26% women

• 22 nationalities

• 650+ alumni

The world-class College of Engineering is recognized for excellence, innovation, and the societal relevance of its pursuits. We produce creative and technically strong engineers, and smart solutions to global challenges. We do this with an unprecedented drive to integrate engineering, sciences, arts, business and other disciplines to produce transformative results.

With cutting-edge information security, innovative start-ups, big data, hands-on learning, and creative mobile applications, CMU doesn't imagine the future–CMU creates it.

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