Monthly Payment Plan: Carnegie Mellon offers a monthly payment option through a vendor named TMS.

Tuition & Fees Tuition is only a portion of the cost of attendance.

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Tuition for Carnegie Mellon University is $54,244 for the 2018/2019 academic year. TMS pays Carnegie Mellon University the tuition and bills the student each month. Tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year is $42,000. We have a limited number of merit scholarships offering partial tuition support, available to select candidates.

When students register for classes, they are officially enrolled at Carnegie Mellon.

Out of state tuition for Carnegie Mellon University is 54244, the same as Pennsylvania residents. This is 91% more expensive than the national average private non-profit four year college tuition of $28,471.

A student pays TMS an enrollment fee for an interest-free loan.

Cost of attendance also takes into account residency status and any fees the university may charge. This fee is comprised of 54244 for tuition, 14418 room and board, 1000 for books and supplies and 1221 for other fees. The annual list price to attend Carnegie Mellon University on a full time basis for 2018/2019 is 72283 for all students regardless of their residency. This service is available during only the Fall and Spring semesters, not during Summer semester. If you are a non-African national, the cost of tuition is set by Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering, because students obtain exactly the same CMU master’s diploma as the students at CMU’s Pittsburgh campus.

Tuition for these students is $50,100, and should be compared to tuition at other world-class institutions. Carnegie Mellon University is one of the 100 most expensive colleges in the America, coming in 28th on our Expensive 100 Ranking.

For full-time graduate students in the MDES, MPS and MA programs, we offer paid assistantships of $2,000 per semester in exchange for approximately six hours of work per week. All applicants are invited to apply for one of these assistantships.