Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University

Every information technology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the it program at Carnegie Mellon University stacks up to those at other schools.

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and approximately 13,519 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Information Technology section at the bottom of this page.

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Master’s Degree in IT

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Rankings

The it major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Information Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 15 students who received their doctoral degrees in it, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IT Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the it majors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of it bachelor's degrees went to men and 83% went to women. The typical it bachelor's degree program is made up of only 28% women. So female students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 54% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its it bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	34
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	21
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 51% of it master's degrees went to men and 49% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a master's in it.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	61
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	48
International Students	694
Other Races/Ethnicities	31

Related Majors

• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• Artificial Intelligence

Careers That IT Grads May Go Into

A degree in it can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Computer Systems Analysts	21,910	$95,990
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,070	$146,860
Systems Software Developers	8,810	$103,520
Computer Network Architects	7,120	$101,090

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.