APPLYING TO THE JOINT CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY – UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHD PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Interested in joining the Joint CMU-Pitt PhD Program in the Fall of 2025?  Students apply using the online admissions site of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. 

The application website for our graduate program will open September 4th.  We encourage applications by the early deadline of November 20th, 2024 (3PM, EST) .  However, applications will be accepted until December 11, 2024 (3PM, EST), to allow the inclusion of all required information. Please contact the CPCB Program administrators or applygrad@cs.cmu.edu with any questions or about any difficulties with assembling your application, as incomplete applications cannot be evaluated. Please complete and submit the online application, as well as your supplemental materials, by the deadline. Applications are reviewed by our Admissions Committee as they become complete (i.e. receipt of all recommendation letters, transcript(s), and if required, TOEFL score reports, resume and personal statement). GRE’s are not required*.

*When it prompts you to enter your GRE date, please just enter the date of your application

Admission is offered either through Carnegie Mellon University or the University of Pittsburgh based upon the evaluation of your application.

If you have any application questions, please email applygrad@cs.cmu.edu.

For program-related questions, please contact: Kelly Gentille (kmg120@pitt.edu) or Nicole Stenger (nstenger@cs.cmu.edu)

Financial Fee Waiver Deadline

• The final deadline to submit a financial fee waiver request is December 4, 2024 at 3 p.m. EST. 
• We will not consider any late submissions by email.
  
  
  

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