The agreement was signed on December 21, 2012 in IT Park Kazan Director of the University Innopolis Dmitry Kondratyev and Carnegie Mellon University Rector Mark Kamletom.

Carnegie Mellon University (English Carnegie Mellon University, CMU) – a private university a research center located in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA), which is engaged in including and research in the field of science and technology innovation in the field of robotics and artificial study intelligence. It is considered the best in the United States in the training of specialists in the field of computer technology.

The signing of this agreement was one of the first points made ​​a Memorandum of Agreement, which was signed on Friday, the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan. Under the agreement in September 2013, 15 Russian students will be able to begin training at Carnegie Mellon University program MSIT-Software Engineering. 

According to Dmitry Kondratyev, the next four months will be performed competitive selection, and by the end of April will be announced the names of candidates. Eligibility criteria and admission procedure will fully comply with the standard requirements of Carnegie Mellon Admission to the specified master's program. Upon graduation, students receive a diploma University Carnegie Mellon.

“We expect that our students are spending at Carnegie Mellon from 3 to 6 months, will be able to go back and finish his studies at Kazan. To do this, simultaneously with students at Carnegie Mellon will be trained 5 professors from the University Innopolis. Also Carnegie Mellon and the University of Innopolis develop training courses tailored to the needs of IT companies of Tatarstan. This will allow students not only to complete the training in Tatarstan, but also to conduct research on topics proposed by local IT companies in the preparation of a thesis under the guidance of world-class professors. companies on subjects which will performed by these scientific studies are likely to become employers for graduates of our joint master's program. best graduates of this program will be able to continue research work and teaching at the University Innopolis” – said the director of the University Innopolis Dmitry Kondratyev in an interview the press service of the Ministry of Information and communication RT. 

“Our main goal is not just to teach students abroad, but to reach the level of training in Innopolis in which students can get here the same knowledge and skills in teaching as a Carnegie Mellon”, – said the director of the University Academic Innopolis Alexander Tormasov. 

CMU is one of the world's best educational institutions in the training of specialists in the field Somputer Science. iCarnegie and its partners have trained almost 150 thousand students in more than 20 countries and trained more than one thousand teachers. Alumni and staff CMU – the founders of many leading IT companies and technologies, including Sun Micro, language Java. Among the graduates – 15 Nobel Prize and Turing.