Undergraduate Studies
The EPP undergraduate programs enhance a traditional course of study at Carnegie Mellon University with the perspectives and skills that enable students to understand and work at the interface between technology and society. Society is largely responsible for setting the goals and framing the problems that engineers work on, while the technologies designed by engineers profoundly change the societies in which they operate. Technology has enabled a healthier, richer and more productive society but has also contributed to some of the problems our world faces.
Learn more about the EPP undergraduate progams with Deanna Matthews, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs
We offer a variety of programs designed to suit the needs of both Engineering and non-Engineering students.
Additional major in Engineering and Public Policy
Students can enroll in the EPP additional major degree program which earns them a joint degree between EPP and any of the five primary engineering departments (Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Electrical and Computer, Mechanical, and Materials Science).
Additional major in Science, Technology, and Public Policy
The EPP department offers an additional major in Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) for students outside of the engineering college who are earning a B.S. degree. This includes students in the Mellon College of Science, the School of Computer Science, and select majors in the Dietrich College. Similar to the additional major in Engineering and Public Policy, this new additional major is meant to broaden the perspectives on a student's primary major and provide additional skills for future careers.
Undergraduate Minors
Technology and Policy Minor
The T&P minor is designed to allow students to explore interests in the interactions of technology and policy without significant overload to the course requirements in their major curriculum.
Information Security, Privacy and Policy Minor
This minor is for undergraduate students across the university who are interested in policy issues related to security and privacy, including those who are planning careers in security/privacy as well as those who plan to focus their careers in other areas.
Fifth Year MS in EPP
Carnegie Mellon students, whether they have completed an EPP undergraduate program or not, may pursue a 5th year MS in EPP.
New admissions policy: Students now apply to an engineering major
Students applying to the College of Engineering can choose their major at two times: when applying to a major directly or when applying undecided and making a selection in the spring of their first year.
Students who apply directly to a major are admitted directly to that major or, in the case of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a department. Students who are accepted to Civil and Environmental Engineering will declare either Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering at the end of the fall semester of their first year.
Students admitted as undecided within the College of Engineering are allowed to choose among the primary majors during the spring semester of their first year.
Requests to change majors will be considered after the first year but are not guaranteed to be approved and will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
In the spring of their first year, all students will also have the opportunity to declare an additional major, such as Biomedical Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Engineering, Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Engineering and Fine Arts.
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To learn more about EPP undergraduate programs, please schedule an appointment with Deanna Matthews, Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs.