<p>I don’t have the stats handy, but you can check this thread curated by ucbalumnus. It has a ton of post-graduate surveys: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/internships-careers-employment/1121619-university-graduate-career-surveys.html</a></p>
<p>CMU can be stingy with their aid, but it all depends on how much they want you. I was able to get them to match the aid offer from RPI, otherwise I’d probably have gone there. I wound up with around $20k in loans. A few thousand was unsubsidized, so I took the money I earned during the nine months between undergrad and grad (I finished a semester early) and used it to pay off that loan. The rest has been deferred (meaning I pay no interest, and the loans don’t accrue any interest) since 2007.</p>
<p>I think the other thing that’s important which is being ignored here is how you feel you’d fit in at the school. I don’t know if I’d say CMU is a pressure cooker, but there’s a ton of work, and you really have to love what you’re doing in order to succeed.</p>