Ph.D. Studies at Heinz College
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.
Heinz College is a graduate school without boundaries.
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 extremely accessible faculty.
Heinz College features the unique co-location of two schools: The School of Information Systems and Management and The School of Public Policy and Management; however, below that larger structure, we are a college without departments and their characteristic silos. Our faculty, students, and research centers thrive by working together to solve problems across subjects, disciplines, and business verticals.
In the Heinz 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.
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Decorated Faculty & Research Centers
Here, You Will Work With Award-Winning Thought Leaders and Boundary-Busting Research Centers
Faculty and Research
Ph.D. in Information Systems & Management
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
Ph.D. in Public Policy & Management
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
Joint Ph.D. Programs
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 College of Engineering, as well as international opportunities through CMU Portugal