unitid 211440 · Pittsburgh, PA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Carnegie Mellon University
University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
- founded
- 1900
- enrollment 2023
- 17,136
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, it became Carnegie Mellon University through its merger with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded in 1913 by Andrew Mellon and Richard B. Mellon and formerly a part of the University of Pittsburgh. wikipedia rev 1363856544 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
12%
3rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,304
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
16%
undergrads on Pell grants
13th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
94%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$83,654
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$31,944
after aid, aided students
85th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$114,862
after entry, Title IV students
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$21,750
31st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $9,097 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $91,372
- First-generation students
- 10%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $66,246
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.3× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 1,085 | $166,594 | — |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 446 | $176,502 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 343 | — | — |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | 276 | $156,313 | — |
| Computer Science. | 270 | $251,632 | $21,442 |
| Computer Engineering. | 205 | — | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 203 | $109,987 | — |
| Statistics. | 172 | $155,025 | $21,375 |
| Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications. | 168 | — | — |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 157 | $183,814 | $22,250 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 151 | $159,088 | $23,250 |
| Systems Science and Theory. | 118 | $133,740 | $23,250 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,824 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,091) · computer scientist (421) · university teacher (409) · actor (176) · television actor (141) · film actor (125) · engineer (108) · mathematician (96)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Clifford Shull Physics 1994
- Edward C. Prescott Economics 2004
- Finn E. Kydland Economics 2004
- John L. Hall Physics 2005
- Oliver E. Williamson Economics 2009
- Dale T. Mortensen Economics 2010
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Andy Warhol
178 wikis · Public domain
Kurt Vonnegut
120 wikis · Public domain
Ethan Hawke
81 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Holly Hunter
74 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
John L. Hall
66 wikis · Public domain
Clifford Shull
62 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Oliver E. Williamson
59 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
George A. Romero
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
James Gosling
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Zachary Quinto
56 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Finn E. Kydland
53 wikis · Public domain
Patrick Wilson
53 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Edgar Mitchell
52 wikis · Public domain
Edward C. Prescott
52 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Judith Resnik
51 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363856544), CC BY-SA 4.0.