美国顶级名校行-Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)大学校园风光

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Tepper School of Business
In 1900, Andrew Carnegie founded the collection of schools that would later become Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie, philanthropist and founder of Carnegie Steel, wanted to bring a technical institute to Pittsburgh, so he created the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, the Technical Schools became the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Soon after, in 1917, the Institute awarded the first undergraduate degree in drama in the U.S. A half a century later, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute, a research center, giving the school its current name.

The Graduate School of Industrial Management (GSIA)—now called the Tepper School of Business—was founded in 1949. William Larimer, chairman of Gulf Oil, created the endowment that got the school started. In 1955, GSIA became the country's first business program to use computers for teaching and research. The business school went on to produce six Nobel prize winners, along with many other successful graduates. The school now has an alumni network of about 9,000. GSIA was renamed in 2004 after David Tepper—founder of hedge fund firm Appaloosa Management and 1982 GSIA MBA graduate—donated $55 million.

Tepper emphasizes an interdisciplinary curriculum and the use of advanced technology in its top-ranked undergraduate and graduate business programs. The school also stays relatively small to maintain a low student-faculty ratio. There are, on average, just 35 students in a core MBA class, creating a comfortable but rigorous learning environment. As one graduate noted in a BusinessWeek survey, "Tepper is an intense experience, and the people here are among the friendliest, most team-oriented people I have ever worked with."

Along with a full-time MBA, a master's degree in computational finance, a doctorate, and undergraduate business programs, Tepper also offers a mini-MBA. This miniaturized business program divides the academic year into four semesters. Each mini-semester is just seven-and-a-half weeks long—half the length of a normal semester. Students take four or five classes each semester, adding up to about 32 courses by the end of the accelerated program.

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MBAs: Before and After
Tepper students come from diverse academic backgrounds. When they begin at Tepper, students have nearly five years of work experience. The majority of MBA students major in science and engineering as undergraduates, and 17% major in business or accounting.

At graduation, Tepper students go on to pursue a wide range of careers. The most popular industries for recent grads are financial services and consulting, with technology a close third. The average salary for recent Tepper MBA graduates is $103,012, with an average signing bonus of $22,625.

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Diversity
Tepper abides by the same diversity statement—presented in 2001 by the president of Carnegie Mellon—that guides the rest of the university. The school believes diversity is important to both its spirit and growth.

One-fifth of the MBA student body is women, 23% are from outside the U.S., and among U.S. students, 25% are Asian-American. Tepper aims for diversity in its undergraduate program, too: More than half the students are women, and among U.S. students minorities—predominantly Asian-Americans—account for 48% of the class.

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The Undergraduate Business Program
Undergraduates studying business declare both a track and a minor in business. The track allows for specialization in a specific subject, and the minor gives breadth to each student's individual course of study. There are eight tracks to choose from, including finance, general management, marketing, and others.

Business administration and supply chain management are the only minors within the Tepper School curriculum. But undergrads can declare a minor outside the business program and take classes at Carnegie Mellon's other schools, such as the Mellon College of Science and the College of Fine Arts.

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Meeting, Eating, and Relaxing
The University Center is Carnegie Mellon's version of a student union. It opened in 1996 as part of the school's "New Campus Plan" and has eateries, a movie theater, and fitness facilities.

Student clubs can use the Center for group meetings, and non-Carnegie Mellon organizations can hold conferences there.

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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon's campus is connected to a 100-acre park filled with rolling hills and hiking trails. Both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. The city is home to about 86,000 college students, who can take advantage of everything the city has to offer, including professional sports, a zoo, and many museums and parks.

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Hunt Library
The Hunt Library opened in 1960 after Roy and Rachel Hunt donated $2.8 million for the project. It has more than 60,000 volumes on business and economics, along with business magazines and journals.

The library's fourth floor holds the 10,000 texts that make up the university's fine and rare books collection, which includes originals of Copernicus' earth-shattering book on heliocentric theory from 1543, "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres." The library is topped off (literally) with the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in its penthouse.

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School Sports
Carnegie Mellon has both intramural and NCAA Division III sports teams. Pictured above are the three soccer players who recently earned top academic honors from ESPN The Magazine. The school's Tartans are supported by loyal fans and their mascot, Scottie Dog.

Intramural athletics at Carnegie Mellon are varied and range from college classics—Ultimate Frisbee, for instance—to more specialized sports, such as grappling and cycling.

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Extracurriculars
Life outside the classroom is boundless. There are plenty of extracurricular opportunities aside from sports at the school, whose many student groups include the Marketing Club, Tepper Women in Business, and the Wine Club.

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Visiting Speakers
Tepper students often hear from CEOs and management experts as part of the school's various speaker series. The W.L. Mellon Speakers, for instance, brings in CEOs and business executives, and the MSCF Speaker Series brings in other influential business leaders. Recent MSCF speakers include Emad M. Mahmoud, investment senior vice-president at Prudential, and David Sylvan, senior vice-president at KeyBanc Capital Markets. Pictured above is Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO of General Electric.