My cardiologist’s youngest son is a grad student in AI at CMU. He told his dad that last year when he was an undergrad, there were some Pitt students in some of his classes. Apparently, there is some kind of arrangement between the two schools.
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When I went to Pitt decades ago, there were CMU students in my classes (undegrad). There has long been arrangements for taking classes at each others' school as long as a similar class isn't offered at your home school.
But anyway, CMU should owe us lifetime free crossover classes for gifting them the Mellon Institute.
But anyway, CMU should owe us lifetime free crossover classes for gifting them the Mellon Institute.
Yes, that is still the case. Pitt and CMU students can take classes at the other school as long as it isn't offered at their home school. Students at the home school get preference for enrollment, however, so if it fills up, you are out of luck. But if you are a Pitt student, you are only paying Pitt tuition rates when taking a CMU class.
Pitt & CMU students also have borrowing privileges at each other's libraries. The two schools also have a multiple shared academic programs and research centers, like the Center For Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh Super Computing Center, the MD/PhD program, etc. There are a bunch of collaborations and it may be hard to find two more collaborative universities in the country.
As mentioned above, the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research belonged to Pitt at one time (and its original building Allen Hall still does), but then became an independent institute before merging with Carnegie Tech in 1967 (apparently one reason it didn't merge back with Pitt is that it refused to change its name to Mellon University...but Pitt also had been in financial trouble and was becoming state-related at the time so it is hard to say what all the factors were). On the other hand, Pitt's former School of Information Sciences once belonged to CMU. But both Andrew and Richard Mellon were a Pitt alumns (Andrew served as a trustee as well), and their father, Thomas, was a Pitt grad. The Mellon brothers were also the biggest donors to the Cathedral of Learning; bought the plot of land it was built on and gave it to Pitt....today if it was built, it almost certainly would have been called Mellon Tower or Hall or something with their name on it. I'm pretty sure all three are probably turning over in their graves with their name now being associated most closely with Andrew Carnegie's tech school. Heck, even Chatham has a Mellon Hall, but Pitt has nothing bearing the name of the family of its most prominent alumni and benefactor family.
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Nordy and his peer at CMU (Iforget his name...dammit) really worked together. Both schools were better.
