About Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Kigali, Rwanda
Carnegie Mellon University, 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.
In 2011, CMU-Africa and the Government of Rwanda signed an agreement to establish a Carnegie Mellon University 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.
CMU-Africa by the numbers
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320+ students
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27% women
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650+ alumni
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85% graduates working on the continent
22 nationalities represented in our student body
- Benin
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Congo (DRC)
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Sudan
- Sudan (the)
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Interested in working at CMU-Africa?
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.
About the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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.
Learn more about the history of Carnegie Mellon University and the College of Engineering.