The university today consists of seven colleges and schools:
- School of
Computer Science
- Carnegie Institute of
Technology
- College of Fine
Arts
- College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Mellon College of Science
- David A. Tepper School of
Business
- H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
The university has two smaller additional campuses, offering business and technology-related degrees, one in California's San
Francisco Bay Area, another in Qatar's Education City.The university houses famous research centers such as the Robotics Institute, which is the first of its kind in the world and considered a leader in the field of
robotics, and the Software Engineering
Institute which undertakes projects relating to software security, code re-use, and development models and is largely funded
by the United States Department
of Defense. The Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model is used widely.