[cschmidt]

I'm a CMU alum, and I asked about that once when they were mentioning "space naming opportunities". Very roughly and unofficially speaking, $50,000 gets you a classroom, $1,000,000 gets you a floor or wing, and $20 million gets you a department. Apparently $265 million gets you a college.

[pilom]

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation donated $20-40 million and got a building.

[schmittz]

For those interested, here's a list of the actual valued naming opportunities. Although, it doesn't include anything about naming spaces. (Scroll to the bottom) https://www.cmu.edu/campaign/about/endowment.html

[dmv]

$55 million (Tepper) in 2003 was the previous price...

[cschmidt]

Well, you expect the b-school to cost more than other departments, don't you :-).

[benmccann]

The Tepper School of Business is a college at CMU just like the newly-named Marianna Brown Dietrich Humanities and Social Sciences college. The colleges contains departments such as English, Philosophy, etc.

[cschmidt]

Sorry, of course it is. I wasn't thinking straight.