Carnegie Mellon University

Career Outlook

When you choose to advance your career through Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Software Engineering Professional Programs, you can expect preparation and guidance that will position you well to meet your career objectives.

Whether you aspire to ascend to a position of technical leadership, refine and drive your organization's development process to the next level, or define and design broad-reaching system architectures, we can help you get there.

Our graduates rise to positions of leadership. On average, 50% of our graduates enter senior software engineering positions within five years of graduation. 25% of our graduates directly enter senior software engineering positions. While these statistics are controlled by market demand, our graduates who obtain senior positions do so within 18 months on average, which is up to 12 months faster than graduates from non-CMU master degree programs headed to software engineering positions. The MSE program routinely tracks the career velocity of our graduates to prepare our students to reach their greatest potential.

MSE
for Professionals

$170,000

Median Base Salary

100%*

Received offers prior to graduation

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Full-Time Employment Statistics
Median Base Salary $170,000
Salary Range $115,000-300,000
Employment Offers
(three months post-grad)
100%*
Full-Time Employment by Domain
Distributed Database 33%
Robotics 33%
Internet Services 33%
Employers (by Alpha)
Amazon (4)
Bloomberg LP
TikTok (2)
Meta (2)
Oracle

Walmart
Tinder
StubHub
Microsoft
NVidia

MSE –
Scalable Systems & MSE – Embedded Systems

$140,000 (increase)

Median Base Salary

98%*

Received offers prior to graduation

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Full-Time Employment Statistics
Median Base Salary $140,000
Salary Range $95,000-$200,000
Employment Offers
(three months post-grad)
98%*
Internships Converted to Full-time 34%*
Full-Time Employment by Domain
Cloud/Internet Services 76%
Computer Software 6%
Finance 6%
Gaming 6%
Transportation 6%
Employers (by Alpha)
Bloomberg
Zoox (2)
NVidia
Tesla
Amazon (2)
TikTok
Goldman Sachs
Pinterest
Adobe (2)
Splunk
Moloco (2)
Salesforce
Hewlett Packard
Meta
*Based on graduates who responded to our survey in 2023.