School of Computer Science
Technology is a powerful tool. We should know — we lead the world in developing it. Since the founding of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science (SCS), we’ve focused on creating technology that changes the world for the better. Today, that mission is more important than ever.
As our innovations become interwoven with daily life, we’re committed to not just pioneering the next technological revolution, but ensuring that our discipline evolves in ways that elevate and improve how people live, work, connect and care for one another.
There are breakthroughs waiting to be made, and our visionaries are ready to lead the way.
With your support, we will develop groundbreaking research, lead the world in producing and supporting society’s expert computer scientists and grow the pipeline of talent for our field.
A Message from the Dean
Martial Hebert
Carnegie Mellon has led the world in computer science for more than six decades, and we’ve always taken the responsibility of this position seriously. We do important work that benefits humanity — we always have and we always will. We perform foundational research and develop revolutionary techniques. We work with our peers across campus to create new fields of intellectual inquiry. We thoughtfully explore the ethics of computation.
But we also prize education and the talent that we send into the world. We train future leaders, the people whose talent, interdisciplinary skills and collaborations will propel us through the 21st century and improve peoples’ lives. Few jobs could be more important.
When you give to SCS, you support our outstanding research and education efforts. Your gift allows us to attract and retain the brightest and most diverse faculty and students, and ensure they have the resources they need to walk into the future, prepared to change it for the better.
What will you and the School of Computer Science
Developing groundbreaking computer science research.
Decades of inventive thinking have led to achievements unforeseen in our field. With your support, we can build on that momentum to produce innovations that are beyond imagination.
Leading the world in producing and supporting society's expert computer scientists.
The School of Computer Science’s students and faculty share certain traits: an inventive spirit, a collaborative mindset and a deep desire to shape technology to humanity’s benefit. With your support, the most important work of their lives — and ours — will happen here.
Growing the pipeline of talent for our field.
By introducing computer science into K-12 classrooms, we’re inspiring interest within younger students — and making an education (and a career) in computer science more exciting and accessible. Your support will spark students’ interest in computer science early on, better growing our field and encouraging passionate researchers of the future.
Pioneering research. Leading progress.
Help us make it possible
With your support of groundbreaking computer science research, we will:
Attract and retain faculty
Nurture big ideas
Enhance research facilities and equipment
- Undergraduate Scholarships
Recognize talented undergraduates with scholarships that free them
to immerse themselves in their education, their passions and
their work. - Fellowships
Secure an education for graduate students, regardless of their financial circumstances, to prepare the next generation of computer science leaders. - Research Support
Assist SCS students and faculty by providing the resources they need to advance their work from idea
to execution. - Dean’s Innovation Fund
Enable the school’s dean to galvanize innovative projects and research with critical funding at the developmental stage.
With your support of society’s expert computer scientists,
we will:
Attract and support great educators
Advance diversity and inclusion
Boost learning in and out of the classroom
- Teaching Professorships
Nurture the next generation of scholars and innovators, by funding faculty positions that focus on teaching our students and inspiring their educational experiences. - Education Facilities
Fuel our students’ journeys as leaders, scholars and computer scientists by providing for spaces that support and strengthen how they learn computing. - Endowed Chairs
Provide faculty with funding that inspires their teaching, fuels their research, and assists us in recruiting great educators and researchers to the School of Computer Science. - Research Facilities
Accelerate discovery across our departments and disciplines by creating research spaces that promote innovation and help it thrive.
With your support of a pipeline of talent for our field, we will:
Ignite a passion for computer science
End the knowledge gap
Give K-12 educators the resources they need
- K-12 Outreach Funds
Attract more students to computing, information technology and robotics, through initiatives that provide educational programs for teachers and students from the primary grades through high school. - Departmental DEI Funds
Provide resources to department-level initiatives that promote diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computer Science.