Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon University

What traits are you looking for in a IT school? To help you decide if Carnegie Mellon University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's IT program.

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and approximately 13,519 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 42 students received a bachelor's degree in IT from Carnegie Mellon.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Information Technology section at the bottom of this page.

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT
• Master’s Degree in IT
• Doctorate Degree in IT

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the IT progam at Carnegie Mellon compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The IT major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Information Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	1
Best Information Technology Schools	1
	1
Best Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Focused Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	2
Most Popular Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	3
Most Focused Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	4
Best Value Information Technology Doctor’s Degree Schools	6
Most Popular Information Technology Schools	6
	7
Most Focused Information Technology Graduate Certificate Schools	25
Most Focused Information Technology Schools	26
Best Value Information Technology Master’s Degree Schools	28
Best Value Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	122
Best Value Information Technology Schools	139
Most Focused Information Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	171

In 2021, 438 students received their master’s degree in IT from Carnegie Mellon. This makes it the #3 most popular school for IT master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 15 students who received their doctoral degrees in IT, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

IT Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the IT majors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Bachelor’s Program

The IT program at Carnegie Mellon awarded 42 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 24% of these degrees went to men with the other 76% going to women. The typical IT bachelor's degree program is made up of only 27% women. So female students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 49% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its IT bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	22
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Carnegie Mellon Information Technology Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 438 students earned a master's degree in IT from Carnegie Mellon. About 46% of these graduates were women and the other 54% were men.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a master's in IT.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	45
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	46
International Students	330
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Carnegie Mellon also has a doctoral program available in IT. In 2021, 15 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Computer & Information Sciences
• Artificial Intelligence

Careers That IT Grads May Go Into

A degree in IT can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Computer Systems Analysts	21,910	$95,990
Computer and Information Systems Managers	13,070	$146,860
Systems Software Developers	8,810	$103,520
Computer Network Architects	7,120	$101,090

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.