Enrolling Student Portal

Complete the Enrolling Student Checklist.

Deadline to complete: Please see details on the Enrolling Student Checklist page.

After you have accepted your offer of admission by submitting the response form (and paid the enrollment deposit, if required), you will receive an email with the Subject: “Action Required: Your Andrew userID Has Been Created” from it-help@cmu.edu. Follow the directions in that email. Expect this email within 2 weeks of accepting the offer of admission. (If you have a current Andrew ID, ignore and delete this email).

The email will provide instructions on how to receive your Andrew userID, set a password, and enroll in two-factor authentication (2fa) with DUO, Carnegie Mellon’s multi-factor authentication service provider. Please be sure to check your spam folder, in the event the email does not appear in your inbox.

Your "Andrew ID" is required to login to university services such as SIO, Canvas, and HealthConnect. 

Your activated Andrew ID will be required to successfully complete all of the subsequent steps on this checklist.

If you misplaced or did not receive this email, please email it-help@cmu.edu and request an "Andrew replacement email."

Deadline to complete: Within five days of receiving the “Action Required: Your Andrew userID Has Been Created” from it-help@cmu.edu email.

Heinz College reserves the right to require all admitted students to successfully complete the Credentials Verification Process to be eligible to enroll. The purpose of this verification process is to protect all stakeholders of the program (including students, faculty, staff and alumni) from those who would falsify their backgrounds to gain an unfair advantage in the admission process.

Students required to complete a verification will be notified via email by the Heinz College Office of Admission closer to the start of the semester. 

If required, complete the credentials verification process after you receive an email message from "Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College <automation@instascreen.net>" with subject line "Credential Verification Disclosure and Authorization Form." Get details about the Credentials Verification Process.

ProVerify will contact your recent employers and application recommenders shortly after you submit the Disclosure and Authorization Form. We recommend that you make your recent employers and recommenders aware in advance.

Timeline to receive this email: Mid-September

Deadline to complete: Within 14 days of receiving the email
 

We recommend that students allow ample time for their housing search, moving-in activities, and getting settled in Pittsburgh. It is important that you give yourself enough time to be settled prior to the start of Heinz onboarding and classes.

Recommended timeframe: Early August

You will find helpful details here about moving to Pittsburgh. All resources provided will be useful regardless of when you move to Pittsburgh.

Your graduate experience begins with New Student Orientation! Between now and the start of the semester, we will be hosting a number of online and in-person sessions to prepare you for your first semester and help you get to know the other members of the Heinz community, including faculty, staff, and your classmates.

A select number of orientation programs will be mandatory (attendance and view time will be recorded).

Mandatory orientation programming will occur:

• Online: Starting in July
• In-Person: August 17-20, 2026

The 2026 Orientation Portal is expected to be released in early-May.

Full-time Heinz students will have the opportunity to take placement and exemption exams prior to the start of the fall semester, which offer you the opportunity to place into a higher section of a course or fully exempt a required course.

This is your only opportunity to sit for these exams. For courses that offer exemption exams, you must sit for the exam to earn an exemption. There are no options to exempt those courses after your program begins. The exam schedule and details regarding available exams for your degree program can be found here.

For required courses that do not offer an exemption or placement exam during the summer, students may petition to request an exemption. Exemption petitions for incoming students will be available during the month prior to the start of the fall semester. Get more information about placement exams and exemptions.

An information session on the exemption exam process will be held on May 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT. An invitation will be sent to the email address you used for your application.

Attending University-wide graduate student orientation is a great way to learn about Carnegie Mellon University from a campus-wide perspective. All graduate students across the CMU campus are invited to learn more about campus services, health insurance, transportation, shopping and more. Most topics covered are not included in the Heinz College Orientation programming, but you may see some themes or topics overlap.

This orientation is planned and presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Office of the Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Education.

University-wide graduate student orientation will be held August 11 - 13, 2026.

International Students and International Exchange Students who are studying on the CMU Pittsburgh campus for the Fall 2026 semester are required to participate in the International Student Check-In presented by the Office of International Education. Failure to complete check-in will result in you falling out of your visa status.

In August 2026: OIE will host a Welcome Session and Mandatory Immigration Check-In for students starting in Fall 2026. Full details (including dates) and instructions for these sessions will be communicated directly to you by OIE via email, within your Visa documents, and at OIE Welcome Session and Mandatory Immigration Check-In.

For international students who are studying on the CMU Pittsburgh campus, participation in the immigration check-in is mandatory.

Check out the Heinz College Academic Calendar and CMU Academic Calendar.

The Section (SEC) of a course defines the period of time the class will meet.

SEC A through J = Entire length of the semester
SEC A1, A3, A5 and J1, J3, J5 = 1st HALF of semester only
SEC A2, A4, A6 and J2, J4, J6 = 2nd HALF of semester only

First day of classes for fall start students: August 24, 2026

Students required to attend QSSP should review the information regarding Conditional Enrollment to determine the date you are required to start these programs.

Get more information about QSSP, including the dates.