Miami is set to get a new Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) campus, thanks to a $2 billion donation from Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin. The donation also includes another $1 billion for CMU's Pittsburgh campus. Griffin's $3 billion gift is said to be the largest-ever indiviual gift toward higher education as well as Griffin’s largest-ever gift. As per Carnegie Mellon University, CMU Miami is expected to start enrolling students from 2028. The new campus, CMU said, is "designed to pioneer a model for higher education built for the next era of American innovation".
"CMU Miami will be a new campus organized around societal challenges, designed to prepare future leaders for a rapidly changing world while accelerating research and discovery in areas of critical importance to society," the university in a statement said.
