Heinz College - Education

Education

Presently, Heinz College has an international reputation for excellence in its educational programs:

PhD programs:

• Public Policy and Management
• Information Systems and Management
• Economics and Public Policy (jointly with Tepper School of Business)
• Statistics and Public Policy (jointly with Department of Statistics)
• Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (jointly with Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy)
• Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (Carnegie Mellon Portugal program)
• Machine Learning and Public Policy (jointly with Machine Learning Department)

While Heinz College is the only college at Carnegie Mellon that does not have undergraduate degree programs, it does offer accelerated masters programs for exceptional undergraduates. The Heinz College participates in the minor in Health Care Policy and Management jointly with the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Mellon College of Science. Additionally Heinz College offers several joint professional graduate degrees with the Tepper School of Business, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Oxford, and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as well as executive education programs such as the CIO Institute and the Heinz Negotiation Academy for Women. The Heinz College is also a partner in the Tepper School of Business' Master of Science in Computational Finance and the Carnegie Institute of Technology's Master of Science in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management program.

The hallmark of every Heinz College education is the quantitative and skills-based curriculum, the integration of technology, and the required capstone final project: "the system synthesis." This final project is done instead of a traditional thesis and allows the students to apply their problem solving skills to a real-world client's problem. Graduates of Heinz College are successful in the public sector, private sector, and nonprofit sector.