Carnegie Mellon University Africa is the only U.S. research university offering its master’s degrees with a full-time faculty, staff, and operations in Africa. The location offers three master’s degrees through Carnegie Mellon’s top-ranked College of Engineering: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information Technology, and Engineering Artificial Intelligence.
History
In 2011, Carnegie Mellon University and the Government of Rwanda signed an agreement to establish a College of Engineering 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. 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. We engage in collaborative research and innovation to address African and global challenges.
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About the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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, Carnegie Mellon University doesn't imagine the future–it creates it.
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The African Engineering and Technology Network
The Afretec Network
A pan-African collaboration of technology-focused universities from across the continent, led by Carnegie Mellon University Africa.