The largest individual donation in the history of higher education is funding the Pittsburgh School of Computer Science and a new campus in Miami, due to open in 2028.
Citadel founder Ken Griffin has pledged more than $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, an amount that the institution presents as the largest individual donation ever made to higher education, far ahead of Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion at Johns Hopkins in 2018. One billion will go to the historic Pittsburgh campus, including $500 million for the School of Computer Science, renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science.
A new campus in Miami
The rest will fund CMU Miami, a 35-acre campus in the Wynwood neighborhood, which is scheduled to welcome its first students in 2028 and eventually target more than 3,500 students, about 300 faculty and 600 staff. The courses will build on the university's strengths: computer science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and software engineering, with bridges to energy and advanced manufacturing.
The university justifies the scope of the project by the transformation underway: AI is changing the way knowledge is produced, how research is conducted, how students access information, and raising the bar for what is expected of universities. Ken Griffin will join the Carnegie Mellon Board of Trustees.
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