Carnegie Mellon University

Admissions & Enrollment Statistics

Ph.D. Admissions Academic Year 2014-15 Academic Year 2015-16 Academic Year 2016-17
Number of students applied 293 232 280
Number of students admitted 24 34 31
Number of students enrolled 6 15 10
Ph.D. Enrollment Fall 2017 5 Year Average
Total Enrollment 50 50
Female 14% 13%
Minority 0% 2%
International 60% 65%
Ph.D. Degree Completion Rates as of Fall 2017 Graduated Still Enrolled Left program
2010 Cohort 64% 0% 36%
2011 Cohort 64% 9% 27%
2012 Cohort 44% 33% 22%
Ph.D. Time to Degree Median Time to Degree
2014-15 Graduating Class 4.9
2015-16 Graduating Class 5.7
2015-17 Graduating Class 5.8

Placement Information

2020

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York, New York
  • Quantitative Researcher (Finance), Credit Suisse, New York
  • Algorithmic Trading, Deutsche Bank
  • Research Scientist, Facebook, New York, New York
  • Interest Rate Product Strategist, Goldman Sachs, New York
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Basic Studies, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Postdoc, Penn State Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

2019

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bar-Ilan University
  • Postdoc, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Machine Learning Engineer, Edge Case Research
  • Postdoc, Free University of Berlin, Berlin
  • Quantitative Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York
  • Unknown, Google
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Israel Institute of Technology
  • Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
  • Quantitative Research Analyst, Waterfront International Limited, Toronto, Canada

2018

  • Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America, New York
  • Software Engineer, HERE Technologies, California
  • Data Scientist, Houzz, California
  • NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universite Paris Diderot, France
  • Software Engineer, Waymo, California

2017

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire, England
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • CVA Strat, Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Upsalla University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Data Scientist, Viome, New York, NY
  • Vice President of Portfolio Optimization and Management, WorldQuant, Old Greenwich, CT

2016

  • Post-doctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Software Developer (2), Epic Systems (2), Madison, WI
  • Software Engineer, Heap, San Francisco, CA
  • IB Quantitative Research/Risk Management, J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, NY
  • Associate, Morgan Stanley, Unknown, NY
  • Research Assistant Professor, Penn State University, State College, PA
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

2015

  • Software Engineer, Google, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Quantitative Strategist, KANERAI, Unknown, NY
  • Machine Learning Researcher, Waynaut, Milan, Italy
  • Software Engineer, Whatsapp, San Francisco, CA