Thank you for making it all possible!
More than 72,000 of you contributed to Make Possible and unlocked unlimited opportunities for students, faculty, staff and the broader Carnegie Mellon University community. Our future together looks brighter and bolder because of you and your support, and we could not be more grateful.
Together, we have launched a new era of what’s possible.
Since our founding, Carnegie Mellon University and our people have envisioned and seized opportunities before anyone else. We’ve been unafraid to make the bold choices that revolutionize industries and change lives for the better.
When we launched Make Possible: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University in 2019, we were guided by one simple but powerful question: What can we make possible with the next great investments in Carnegie Mellon?
We are in a time of rapid transformation that must be led by the human insight, creativity and ethical vision that are the hallmarks of CMU. Thanks to Make Possible’s many supporters, Carnegie Mellon is ready to take the lead in reshaping how the arts, science and technology interact with — and serve — society.
Carnegie Mellon has always responded to society’s greatest challenges with trademark fearlessness. The Make Possible campaign accelerated these efforts by asking, 'How can we make the impossible possible?'
Farnam Jahanian
Carnegie Mellon University President
Investing in the future
Carnegie Mellon is ready to embrace the challenges and opportunities of the current moment. The spirit of Andrew Carnegie, who founded Carnegie Tech with an act of profound generosity, lives on in the 72,000 donors who supported the Make Possible campaign, the most successful in the university's history. In November 2025, during the 125th anniversary celebration of CMU's founding, the university marked the close of the campaign — coming together to show how the Tartan community is changing lives, expanding opportunity to education and redefining what is possible.
$ 2 .5 B
Raised by the Make Possible Campaign
$ 1 .1 B
Directed to campus infrastructure
$ 1 B
Infused into CMU’s endowment
Supporting our people
Campaign support has made it possible for Carnegie Mellon to attract and retain the very best scholars. The teachers, artists, innovators and researchers whose ideas are transforming disciplines, inspiring our students and shaping the world’s future. The 214ドル million investment in 72 new endowed professorships, deanships and headships allow CMU to recognize and reward outstanding scholars who are making huge advances in their fields.
MCS deanship is named
Late Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Glen de Vries, co-founder and president of Medidata, donated 10ドル million to endow the chair of the dean of CMU's Mellon College of Science, now held by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.
School of Music receives record gift
Two regional foundations created by the late Jack G. Buncher gave 5ドル million to support Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music, endowing the Jack G. Buncher Chair, which is currently held by Milton Rubén Laufer.
The world needs Carnegie Mellon
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Expanding access and opportunity
The Make Possible campaign made a profound impact on our ability to expand access and opportunity for talented students, ensuring that the doors of Carnegie Mellon remain open to every deserving student, and that our graduates enter the world equipped to make it better. Supporters, from foundations to individuals, contributed 465ドル million and made possible 456 endowed scholarships and fellowships. With campaign contributions and institutional support for scholarships, the results are profound. The average federal student loan debt for CMU graduates has dropped to 18,200ドル per student, with only 28% of the Class of 2024 needing federal loans.
Rales Fellows program launches
This partnership with the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation aims to address the shortfall of students pursuing advanced degrees in STEM fields, particularly those from underresourced backgrounds.
Tartan Scholars program endowed
The Tartan Scholars program works to meet the unique needs of high-achieving students from limited resource backgrounds through a rich network of academic, social and financial support, addressing opportunity gaps for these CMU student leaders.
Historic support for scholarships
CMU dramatically increased the accessibility of its educational programs by meeting more of the financial aid needs of current and future undergraduates thanks to a landmark commitment from two of its alumni.
Foster a dynamic experience that enables students to thrive now and in the future
Enhancing the student experience
The generosity of campaign donors is expanding resources, services and spaces that nurture well-being, belonging and success at CMU. They have made it possible for every CMU student to learn, grow and thrive in every dimension of their life. Investments in wellness, access and engagement services and resources reflect the Carnegie Mellon belief that education extends beyond the classroom and that success lies not only in what our students learn, but in who they become.
Highmark Center opens
Made possible by a lead gift from Highmark Inc. and the support of more than 300 alumni, parents, faculty and staff, the new center is a destination that offers a holistic approach to well-being through robust services and educational programs supporting body, mind and spirit.
Hall of Sciences breaks ground
A unique facility rising at the corner of Forbes Avenue and Craig Street, the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences will be the new home for departments from the Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science as well as the Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh.
Accelerate advances in technology that enhance the human condition
Pioneering new academic and research programs
At the very heart of Carnegie Mellon’s mission is the relentless pursuit of discovery, creativity and innovation. The campaign has made it possible to strengthen that mission through new and expanded programs that advance research, fuel the arts and reimagine education for a rapidly changing world. Thanks to the vision and generosity of so many campaign donors, new programs have been created that bring the full breadth of CMU’s expertise to respond to societal imperatives and new innovations on a global scale.
Partnership expands CMU-Africa
CMU and the Mastercard Foundation, in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda, are working to catalyze opportunities for African young people to engage with emerging technologies and lead the digital transformation of the continent.
Block Center launches
A groundbreaking initiative funded by alumnus Keith Block and his wife, Suzanne Kelley, the Block Center for Technology and Society researches the economic, organizational and public policy impacts of technology to promote access to the benefits of technological change for all.
Ballay Center is established
Funded by the single largest gift to the College of Fine Arts, the Joseph Ballay Center for Design Fusion creates a formal presence of design expertise and outreach at CMU and serves as a central hub for design courses, executive education, sponsored projects and collaborations, and design research.
Fuel artistic expression and creative inquiry to shape modern culture
Transforming CMU for a new era of teaching and learning
With the generosity of so many donors, the CMU campus has been reimagined with the facilities that foster collaboration, spark innovation thereby driving research, creativity and education. These facilities signal a new era for Carnegie Mellon — one that honors our heritage of bold ambition while creating the physical and intellectual environment that our next century of students, faculty and partners will need to thrive.
Mill 19 signals new era
Once serving as the location of the Pittsburgh region's most productive steel mills, Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green is a new hub for manufacturing collaboration and innovation, anchored by the nonprofit Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) and CMU's Manufacturing Futures Initiative (MFI).
Scaife Hall is reimagined
The Alan Magee Scaife Hall and Gordon E. Moore Engineering Quad brings energy and vibrancy to the heart of Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering and provides state-of-the-art facilities to transform engineering research and education.
Tepper Quad opens
Reflecting a new model of higher education that connects teaching, learning and innovation, the 315,000-square-foot David A. Tepper Quadrangle serves as the new home of the Tepper School of Business while intersecting with CMU’s other six colleges and schools.
Achieve breakthroughs in discovery by transforming scientific inquiry
Redefining scientific discovery for a new age
With the resources made possible by the campaign, Carnegie Mellon is pairing human expertise with safe and trustworthy AI, computation and automated laboratories to revolutionize the way researchers work. Critical connections across the physical and virtual worlds, through automated labs and high-performance computing for example, are helping scientists solve some of the world’s most complex problems faster.
Computation meets biological sciences
CMU Trustee Ray Lane and his wife, Stephanie, made a transformation gift to support the boundary-breaking computational biology department, which uses algorithms, data and computer models to increase our understanding of life and develop tools to diagnose and treat disease.
Beyond "Science as usual"
Carnegie Mellon is reimagining the scientific process by harnessing its strengths in AI, automated technologies, machine learning and foundational sciences to rapidly conduct background research, identify new hypotheses, accelerate experimentation, replicating results and leveraging data in groundbreaking new ways.