The main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is a few minutes' walk from campus. The department provides financial aid to all full-time graduate students. Each student accepted full-time into a program receives an English Department Scholarship, which pays a significant portion of their tuition. Teaching assistantships are assigned to doctoral students only. Part-time students are charged tuition at a unit rate.
Financial aid is available to all full-time students.
A wide range of affordable housing options are available close to the Carnegie Mellon campus. Housing costs in Pittsburgh are typically lower than in other urban settings. Student Group Carnegie Mellon is a national research university of about 7,500 students and 3,000 faculty, research, and administrative staff members. Students come from fifty states and forty-eight countries. Student Outcomes Graduates of the Ph.D. in literary and cultural theory program are prepared to confront important theoretical questions in literary and cultural studies and to teach and perform scholarship at the college level.