"Fall" in Love with Heinz College!

Fall Visitation will kick off with a Welcome Reception on Friday, November 1, 2024, from 5-7 PM where you will meet and mingle with current students and Heinz College staff.

Events on Saturday, November 2 will run from 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM and will include sessions on:

• Your Program of Interest 
• Career Services
• Life at Heinz with Current Students
• Diversity, Inclusion, Climate & Equity at Heinz
• Admissions

Heinz College is pleased to offer members of our Strategic Partner Organizations attending Fall Visitation a Travel Subsidy to assist in covering transportation costs.

Please note, the Travel Subsidy is only available for members of our Strategic Partner Organizations who will be traveling over 200 miles round trip to Heinz College for Fall Visitation. You must be in attendance at Fall Visitation on Saturday, November 2 to receive the Travel Subsidy. Additionally, the Travel Subsidy is only offered for ONE of the following methods of transportation:

• Airfare
• Bus Fare
• Train Fare
• Rental Car
• Personal Vehicle, reimbursed at $0.40 per mile traveled

Lodging and other ground transportation expenses (including taxi, Lyft and/or Uber fare) are not eligible expenses for the Travel Subsidy.

Airfare will be reimbursed up to $400. All other methods of transportation will be reimbursed up to $300.

A link to complete the travel subsidy will be sent after you register for the event.

Please email hnzadmit@andrew.cmu.edu for additional questions or details on how to register for the Fall Visitation Strategic Partner Travel Subsidy. 

For your convenience, a hotel block has been set up at the Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh University Place for between $189 and $209 a night. This hotel block will close on October 4, 2024.

If you are not interested in booking a hotel through the hotel block, there are many hotels in surrounding neighborhoods that provide quick and easy access to campus. The closest hotels will be located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. CMU is located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

An interactive Carnegie Mellon University map and parking information may be found here.

We hope that you will take advantage of the many things to do in Pittsburgh during your stay!

Here are a few of the many things to do during your time in Pittsburgh:

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Carnegie Museum of Art
• Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium
• National Aviary
• Andy Warhol Museum
• Pittsburgh Cultural District
• The Mattress Factory
• Carnegie Science Center