Carnegie Mellon University’s seven colleges and schools are the heart of the educational experience for our students and the core of creativity and research happening at CMU.
Explore the giving opportunities within each college and program:
The College of Engineering educates creative and technically strong engineers, pioneers solutions to global challenges and integrates across disciplines to make innovation possible.
Your support makes it possible for the College of Engineering’s culture of Advanced CollaborationSM to fuel the revolutionary research and develop the astonishing technologies that will transform our lives.
Make an annual gift to this important fund:
Engineering Impact Fund: Your gift to this fund goes directly where resources are most needed in the College. For example, this could provide support for students interested in broadening their experience outside of the classroom, offsetting out-of-pocket costs for students to take part in these important experiences that shape their time at Carnegie Mellon. This fund was previously named the Dean’s Innovation Fund.
The artists, designers and architects of the College of Fine Arts shape and enrich human life through innovation, expression and creation that merge technology and imagination in bold, new ways.
Your support makes it possible for the College of Fine Arts to advance the ideas and disciplines that enrich our world and inspire the next generation of makers and creators.
Make an annual gift to one of these important funds:
- Dean's Innovation Fund (CFA): Provides Dean Dan J. Martin with the financial flexibility to allocate money to the college's areas of greatest need.
- School of Architecture Merit Scholarship Fund: Provides talented undergraduates enrolled in the school with merit-based scholarship support.
- School of Art Head's Innovation Fund: Supports emerging opportunities and new ideas by providing the school's head with current-use funding.
- Heritage Scholarship Fund in the School of Music: Provides talented undergraduates enrolled in the school with merit-based scholarship support.
- School of Design Merit Scholarship Fund: Provides talented undergraduates enrolled in the school with merit-based scholarship support.
- School of Drama Visiting Artists Fund: Supports broadening the education of the school's students by exposing them to a cross section of practicing artists, educators, researchers and theoreticians.
Dietrich College reaches across boundaries to conduct some of the world’s most thrilling and promising cross-disciplinary research while preparing students to be leaders with real-world impact.
Your support makes it possible for the faculty and students of Dietrich College to do the work today that will shape the future of humanity tomorrow.
Make an annual gift to one of these important funds:
- Summer Internship Fund: Makes it possible for undergraduates to participate in unpaid summer internships in Pittsburgh and around the world, which provide valuable professional growth opportunities for our students.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day Writing Awards: Supports this annual event for high school and college students in the Pittsburgh area that showcases student writing about their experiences to break down barriers between people.
- Grand Challenges Seminar Fund: Supports curriculum development and interdisciplinary research for the Grand Challenges Seminars, which bring together renowned faculty from difference colleges and departments across campus to approach complex topics from multiple angles and perspectives.
- Senior Honors Fellowship Program: Allows fellows in the Dietrich College Senior Honors Program to build a strong foundation for their thesis and academic pursuits through early-stage research and development of topics during the summer before their senior year.
The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy educates future leaders for “intelligent action” and advances interdisciplinary research that leads to solutions for today’s most complex problems.
Your support makes it possible for Heinz College to be a force for good at the nexus of people, policy and technology.
Make an annual gift to one of these important funds:
- Annual Fund: Sustains the vital day-to-day operations of Heinz College and allows its leadership to address the most pressing needs of the college, students and faculty.
- W. W. Cooper Scholarship Fund: Provides merit scholarships to talented students across Heinz College's academic programs. It was established by alumni in 1975 to honor the college's founding dean.
- Hamburg Hall Expansion and Renovation Fund: Supports the expansion of Hamburg Hall, which will add nearly 20,000 square feet dedicated to educating future leaders at the intersection of technology, public policy and management.
The Mellon College of Science is leading a revolution in science, one that brings foundational sciences, automation, computation, artificial intelligence and human ingenuity together to reimagine and transform the scientific enterprise.
Your support makes it possible for MCS to accelerate and transform discovery through the application of new technologies and the education of future scientists.
Make an annual gift to one of these important funds:
- Dean’s Innovation Fund: Develops new programs and curriculum, retain key faculty, support students, improve outreach efforts and take advantage of ground-breaking opportunities as they arise.
- MCS Student Undergraduate Research Fund: Supports undergraduates by providing them with research scholarships for working with faculty researchers and travel funds for presenting their research at professional conferences.
- MCS Community Initiatives: Champions the efforts to build a strong MCS community by supporting curriculum development, student organizations, K-12 outreach programs, graduate student recruiting, faculty recruitment and workshops to support faculty and teaching assistants in their approaches to teaching, advising and mentoring students from a wide range of life experiences and backgrounds.
The School of Computer Science does important work that benefits humanity — conducting foundational research, educating future computer scientists, collaborating across disciplines and thoughtfully exploring the ethics of computation.
Your support makes it possible for SCS’s faculty and students to solve real-world problems and improve the way people live, work and play.
Make an annual gift to one of these important funds:
- The SCS Outreach: Fund Gives students, teachers and community organizations more access to the computer science resources they need to provide students of all backgrounds with a quality CS education.
- The Dean's Innovation Fund: Allows SCS to quickly support exciting new research — from student projects to groundbreaking faculty endeavors — and to support efforts that improve the quality of life for SCS students.
- The Graduate Education Fellowship Fund: Helps SCS recruit and support talented graduate students who are underrepresented at CMU.
- The SCS General Scholarship Fund: Provides financial support to SCS undergraduate students and lowers the cost barrier of attending SCS.
- CMU CS Academy: An entirely free, online, interactive middle and high school computer science curriculum, founded by award-winning teaching professors Mark Stehlik and David Kosbie.
The Tepper School of Business is focused on the future and guided by a mission to transform the world, pioneering and innovating at the intersection of business, technology and analytics.
Your support makes it possible for the Tepper School to advance a bold research agenda and enhance the education of the next generation of leaders, agents of change and value creators.
Make an annual gift to one of these important areas:
- Tepper School Annual Fund: Provides the dean with financial flexibility to allocate money to the school’s areas of greatest need.
- Tepper School Fellowships: Helps graduate students with financial need attain a Tepper School education and lessens their debt.
- Tepper Undergraduate Programs and Parents Funds: Enhances the undergraduate student experience for business and economics students, include the Undergraduate Trek, Undergraduate Diploma Ceremony, Tepper Pride Day, Tepper Spirit Day, Tepper Ball, Network Manhattan and Industry Etiquette Dinners.
- Tepper Faculty Support Fund: Supports a variety of faculty needs, including equipment, software and data sets for research, academic conferences and publications.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries empower faculty and student scholars with the resources they need to succeed in today’s information-driven society, such as access to high-quality data and the expertise to curate and share their research.
Your support makes it possible for the University Libraries to advance research, learning and knowledge sharing across the university.
Make an annual gift to support one of these priorities:
- Build and expand digital resources: Supports creating digital resources by scanning archival & rare collections; licensing specialized resources to support campus research; and purchasing perpetual access to online journals, electronic books and specialized web resources.
- Showcase research excellence: Funds digital infrastructure that showcases faculty publications and research to the world.
- Enhance learning spaces: Accelerates learning for individuals and groups through improved environments and technology that maximizes the learning experience.