Carnegie Mellon West

Carnegie Mellon West is a satellite campus of Carnegie Mellon University located at Moffett Field, California, within the NASA Ames Research Center complex in Silicon Valley. This campus was established to extend Carnegie Mellon's research and graduate education capabilities into one of the world's foremost technology and innovation ecosystems. Specific enrollment figures and outcome metrics for this site are not separately reported in available IPEDS data.

Carnegie Mellon West focuses on graduate-level programs and research in areas including software engineering, information technology, and computer science, with particular emphasis on applied research relevant to industry and government partners in Silicon Valley. The campus's proximity to NASA Ames, federal laboratories, and major technology companies supports collaborative research and professional graduate study.

Moffett Field is located in Santa Clara County at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, adjacent to Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Carnegie Mellon West's presence at this federally managed site reflects the university's strategic engagement with the technology industry and federal research agencies in one of the nation's most concentrated centers of technological innovation.