Carnegie Mellon University is establishing a dual doctoral degree program engineering with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, enabling students to earn two degrees, one from each university.

The institutions, which announced the program yesterday, said its average length is four years, and students will be required to spend no less than two academic years at each institution.

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