Design students talking in the grad studio

Carnegie Mellon provides options for people to learn about the university and our offerings. You can read about them and sign up for events online at: https://www.cmu.edu/visit/

While we love visitors in the School of Design, we do not encourage drop-in visits—even for regularly scheduled campus tours. Our staff and faculty maintain full calendars. Therefore it's far more likely that we can answer your questions fully if you email the Graduate Program Coordinator. With advanced notice we can confirm availability and coordinate a classroom visit, if our schedules permit.

We also invite you to join us for a virtual visit. A virtual visit to the School of Design is a great opportunity to meet members of our community and talk to current students, which can help you determine whether the program is a good fit for your academic and career goals.

Registration for Virtual Visits.
If you'd like to learn more, please join us for one of our virtual 'visit with us' sessions this spring! 

  • Wednesday, March 19 at 12 pm - 1 pm. This is for newly admitted students. A casual Q&A session with a recorded presentation available to those that did not attend a prior full information session.
  • Wednesday, March 26 at 9 am - 10 am. This is a full information session for all future prospective graduate applicants.

Thank you for registering in advance and if you have any questions about our virtual visitors' sessions, please email grad-info@design.cmu.edu

We invite prospective doctoral students to contact the Graduate Program Coordinator to inquire about the availability of attending a virtual information session with the Director of the PhD in Transition Design, Jonathan Chapman.