Connect with Carnegie Mellon

There are many ways your company can build a partnership with Carnegie Mellon. Depending on your interests and goals, we can work with you to develop a plan in one of the following areas or help you come up with another option to suit your needs. Please feel free to contact us to get things started.

Faculty
Endowment of a distinguished professorship or chair shows a company’s belief in the values of higher education. It allows us to recruit and retain the best faculty in the world so that we continue to have top quality teachers and researchers at Carnegie Mellon.

Students
Companies can support students through fellowships and scholarships. These gifts can enable the best students to gain a world-class education, and they can contribute to increasing diversity on campus. Paid internship opportunities and funding for student organizations are two other ways corporations can assist students.

Facilities
Funding existing and new facilities allows corporations to make a long-term impact on the university. Our campus encourages and supports collaboration in a shared intellectual space. Contributing to physical space that supports this interdisciplinary work is a great way for a company to support the entire campus.

Research Grants and Equipment
As a world-class research university, many innovations are born at Carnegie Mellon. Funding and equipment from companies help support this cutting-edge research that could change your industry and our everyday lives.

Corporate Matching Funds
Matching employee contributions are a great way to both help Carnegie Mellon and to encourage employee philanthropy.

Visiting Executives
Visiting lecturers and instructors help students learn more about “the real world.” Visiting executives also increase exposure of their corporation to our students, who are among the best and most talented in the world.