Where You Get Your Ph.D. Matters. Get Yours at a Global Center of Innovation.
You have the vision. You have the drive. What you need now is a doctoral program that will challenge and support you on your path to a career as a researcher, educator, and expert.
Distinguished by the interdisciplinary model of Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University, our Ph.D. programs prepare graduates to lead change in their chosen fields through meaningful collaborations and hands-on work with our renowned and accessible faculty. Our faculty, students and research centers thrive by working together to solve problems across subjects, disciplines, and business verticals.
In the Heinz College Ph.D. program, you will conduct innovative research to address increasingly complex challenges facing society, whether those challenges are technical, organizational, political, economic, social, or—as is often the case—some combination thereof.
David Adler was selected as the 2019-2020 recipient of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics Graduate Fellowship.
Nate Breg was selected to receive one of the Center for Machine Learning and Health 2020 Fellowships in Digital Health.
Maria Caballero was selected to participate in the Western Economic Association International’s Graduate Student Workshop, held at the association's 95th Annual Conference.
William Herlands was named a finalist for the Schmidt Science Fellows.
Mikaela Meyer has been selected for the American Statistical Association’s 2020 Gertrude Cox Scholarship Award.
Gain a deep understanding of the technical and organizational aspects of information systems
Key research areas in Information Systems & Management include: Economics of Digitization | Machine Learning & Large-Scale Data Analytics | Information Security & Privacy | Health Care & IT
Apply a rigorous scientific approach to social, organizational, economic, and management problems in an increasingly connected world
Key research areas in Public Policy & Management include: Crime & Drug Policy | Energy & Environmental Policy | Health Economics & Policy | Labor Economics | Management Science
Heinz College offers joint Public Policy Ph.D. programs in cooperation with other CMU departments
Explore joint degree programs with CMU’s Tepper School of Business, School of Computer Science, and the College of Engineering
