Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Financial Aid

Types of financial aid

• Federal and private loans
• Carnegie scholarship
• University, Federal and State Grants
• Outside scholarships
• Student employment
• CMU has an endowment of over $1.6 billion

Meal Plans and Eateries

Academics

Meal plans

• Traditional plans
• Green plan - $5,914 per year / $2,957 per semester
• 38 meals every two weeks 19 meals every week, $125 flexible dollars per semester, also two guest meals per semester
• 36 meals every two weeks 18 meals every week, $250 flexible dollars per semester, also two guest meals per semester
• 34 meals every two weeks 17 meals per week, $375 flexible dollars per semester, also two guest meals per semester
• Blue plan - $5,602 per year / $2,801 per semester
• Red plan - $5,310 per year / $2,655 per semester
• Yellow plan- $2,666 per year / $1,333 per semester*
• Community plans(for upperclassmen)

Application process

http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/degreesoffered/

Carnegie Mellon requires the following to apply:

• Common application
• $75 application fee
• High School transcript
• Standardized testing reports
• Secondary school counselor evaluation
• Teacher recommendation
• Common application essay and personal statement
• Application Instructions Booklet - https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMTUvMDgvMDQvMTdfMDBfMDBfNzA4X0FwcGx5X0Jvb2tfMV8ucGRmIl1d/Apply%20Book%5B1%5D.pdf?sha=24de967a

Degrees offered for the College of Engineering

• Interdepartmental
• M.S. in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management
• M.S. in Energy Science, Technology and Policy
• Biomedical Engineering
• B.S. in an engineering discipline and Biomedical Engineering (link)
• M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering (link)
• M. Chemical Engineering
• M. Chemical Engineering and Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces
• M.S. in Chemical Engineering
• M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces
• M.S. in Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces
• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• B.S. in Civil Engineering (link)
• M.S. in Advanced Infrastructure Systems
• M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• M.S. in Civil Engineering
• M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering/M. of Business Administration (jointly with the Tepper School of Business)
• M.S. in Computational Mechanics
• M.S. in Environmental Engineering
• M.S. in Environmental Management and Science
• Ph.D. in Advanced Infrastructure Systems
• Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering/Engineering and Public Policy (dual degree offered with Engineering and Public Policy)
• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
• Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics
• Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering
• Ph.D. in Environmental Management and Science
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (link)
• B.S. in Music and Technology (jointly with the Department of Music and the School of Computer Science)
• M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• M.S. in Music and Technology (jointly with the Department of Music and the School of Computer Science)
• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Engineering and Public Policy
• B.S. in an engineering discipline with an additional major in Engineering and Public Policy (link)
• B.A., B.S., etc. in DC, MCS, or SCS and an additional major in Science, Technology and Public Policy (link)
• M.S. in Engineering and Public Policy
• Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy
• Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy and an engineering discipline
• Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy and Statistics (jointly with the Department of Statistics)
• Information Networking Institute
• M.S. in Information Networking
• M.S. in Information Security Technology and Management
• M.S. in Information Technology - Information Security
• M.S. in Information Technology - Mobility
• M.S. in Information Technology - Software Management
• Mechanical Engineering
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (link)
• M.S. in Computational Design and Manufacturing
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (link)
• M.S. in Materials Science
• M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering
• Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

Social Activities

Description

• There are hundreds of clubs ranging from chess club, ski club to computer club and Robotics club
• Carnegie Mellon has 9 different sports such as basketball, soccer, and golf
• They have 17 varsity teams
• CMU also has other events such as guest speakers and fun activities for students.

On Campus Living

Carnegie Mellon is a private co-ed school. It main campus is located 3 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Its campus is over 140 acres and the school has 6,237 undergrads enrolled and 7,048 post-grads.

Carnegie Mellon has 13 dorm buildings available. With hundreds of dorms of varying types. Their dorms include single gender residences, coeducational residence, apartments, suites, and fraternity and sorority housing. First year residents are garunteed first year housing and are required to live in university housing.

History

Surrounding Activities

Parks and recreation:

• Shenley park
• Carnegie museum of natural history
• Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Eateries

• Starbucks
• The Bagel Factory
• Quiznos

First called Carnegie Technical School, it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie technical school then became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began to grant degrees. Then in 1967 they combined with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research thus creating Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon has been famous for their schools of technology and engineering since their founding.

My Interests

I am interested in computer science, robotics, and electrical and computer engineering.

Career Services

Carnegie Mellon has a very high job placement rate for computer science majors. In 2015 out of 192 graduates 164 graduates got employed right out if college. These graduates were employed at companies such as Facebook, eBay and Google. For Electrical and computer engineering graduates. in 2015 out of 190 graduates 139 of them were employed out of college. They were employed at companies such as Amazon, Apple and Intel.

Article

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/december/diet-and-environment.html