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GSA Stipend Report 2021-2022

Each year, the Graduate Student Assembly surveys all of its representatives across different departments to get information on stipends given to PhD students in their departments. We also gather information on any fees or health insurance that is paid by the department. You can compare the report below with the previous years.

Important Notes

‘Yes’ means the department covers this cost for you
As of the 2021-2022 academic year, Carnegie Mellon provides a health insurance subsidy of 50% to all PhD students. The cost of health insurance with no subsidy is $2,261. ‘Yes’ means a department offers additional health insurance subsidies above the university's 50% baseline.
The data is the product of self-reports. If you believe any information is incorrect, e-mail gsa-vpcomm@andrew.cmu.edu.
The table below does not represent all PhD programs or all PhD students in a given program and it does not account for funding from other sources

Department	Monthly Stipend (pre-tax)	Months of Support	Total Stipend (pre-tax)	Technology Fee ($440)	Transportation Fee ($244)	Student Activity Fee ($222)	Health Insurance ($1,130)
College of Fine Arts
Architecture	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided
Design	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided
Heinz College
Heinz	$3,000	9	$27,000	Yes	No	No	Yes
Dietrich College
English	$2,325	12	$27,900	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
History	$1,958	12	$23,500	Yes	No	No	No
Modern Languages	$2,340	9	$21,060	No	No	No	No
Philosophy	$2,250	12	$27,000	Yes	No	No	No
Psychology	$2,441	12	$29,292	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Statistics	$3,100	9	$27,900	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Program in Neural Computation	$2,808	12	$33,700	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Mellon College of Science
Biological Sciences	$2,500	12	$30,000	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Chemistry	$2,500	12	$30,000	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Mathematical Science	$2,550	9	$22,950	No	No	No	No
Physics	$2,550	12	$30,600	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering	$2,615	12	$31,375	Yes	No	No	No
Civil and Environmental Engineering	$2,563	12	$30,750	No	No	No	No
Chemical Engineering	$2,667	12	$32,000	Yes	No	No	No
Electrical and Computer Engineering	$3,060	12	$36,720	Yes	No	No	No
Engineering Public Policy	$2,570	12	$30,840	Yes	No	No	No
Material Science and Engineering	$2,600	12	$31,200	Yes	No	No	No
Mechanical Engineering	$2,585	12	$31,020	Yes	No	No	No
School of Computer Science
Computational Biology	$3,060	12	$36,720	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Computer Science	$3,060	9/12	$27,540/$36,720	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Human Computer Interaction	$3,060	12	$36,720	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Institute for Software Research - Societal Computing	$3,060	9	$27,540	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Institute for Software Research - Software Engineering	$3,010	12	$36,120	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Language Technology Institute	$3,060	12	$36,720	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Machine Learning	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided	No information provided
Robotics	$3,000	12	$36,000	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Tepper School of Business
Tepper (Year 1)	$2,250	12	$27,000	Yes	No	No	No
Tepper (Years 2 - 5)	Varies based on TA-ship	12	Varies	Yes	No	No	No

Compiled by the Graduate Student Assembly. Last updated: March 14th, 2022.