SCS Graduate Application Fee Waiver
The School of Computer Science offers graduate application fee waivers for reasons related to financial hardship and to participants of certain programs. Below you will find instructions on how to apply for an application fee waiver.
SCS Graduate Application Fee Waiver Deadline
We will accept SCS graduate application fee waiver requests starting on September 7, 2021. The final deadline to submit an SCS graduate application fee waiver request is December 7, 2021, at 12 p.m. EST.
Waivers Related to Financial Hardship
- If the application fee presents financial hardship to the applicant, we will consider a fee waiver request.
- If you are living in the U.S. and feel that you are financially unable to pay, obtain a letter from your Financial Aid Office explaining your inability to pay and their support of a waiver. Upon receipt of this letter, your fee will be waived.
- If you are either living outside of the U.S., not a current student or are unable to obtain a financial aid letter, include a brief description of your financial need and any documentation that supports your request (such as a tax return form, W2, etc.).
- Application fee waiver requests must be emailed to scs-grad-admissions@cs.cmu.edu.
- In your request, you must also include the degree program to which you plan to apply.
- We will confirm your need, and provide a voucher code that can be used to waive the application fees for up to two programs.
- Allow up to 3-5 business days for your request to be processed.
Waivers for Participants of Programs
- For qualified participants of certain events, organizations and programs (see list below), an applicant may apply for a waiver during the application process.
- On the payment screen, you will be presented with the same list that appears below.
- If you have participated in any of them, indicate this and provide evidence of that participation by uploading the appropriate document (receipt for registration, membership card, certificates of participation, etc.).
- Application fees will be waived for up to two of our programs.
| Program | Short Name |
| AccessComputing | |
| ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | AAAS |
| American Indian Science and Engineering Society | AISES |
| American Society of Civil Engineers | ASCE |
| American Society of Mechanical Engineers | ASME |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | AAAI |
| Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing | ACM-W |
| Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction | ACM-SIGCHI |
| Black in AI | BAI |
| CMU alums who graduated with one or more degrees at any level (undergrad, master's or Ph.D.) in any department/college at CMU. | CMU Alum |
| CMU students currently enrolled in a degree-granting program at any level (undergrad, master's or Ph.D.) in any department/college at CMU. | CMU Student |
| Engineers Without Borders | EWB |
| Grace Hopper Celebration | |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society | IEEE Computer Society |
| International Society for Computational Biology | ISCB |
| Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars Program | |
| LatinX in AI | LXAI |
| Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program | |
| Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation | LSAMP |
| Masakhane NLP | |
| Mathematical Association of America | MAA |
| National Society of Black Engineers | NSBE |
| Out for Undergrad O4U Tech | |
Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | oSTEM |
| Queer in AI | |
| Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing & Technology 2020 Conference | RESPECT |
| Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science | SACNAS |
| Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers | SASE |
| Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers | SHPE |
| Society of Women Engineers | SWE |
| The Sadie Collective | |
| Widening NLP | |
| Women in Cybersecurity Conference | WiCyS |
| Women in Machine Learning | WiML |