A Future Built On Experiential Learning

Our students learn by doing and this is why they become highly sought after Product Managers who take initiative, manage stakeholders, embrace ambiguity and think big.

All Master of Science in Product Management students at Carnegie Mellon University gain real-world experience through capstone projects and internships that build upon the technical and leadership skills you learn in class. You’ll work with top companies on cutting-edge products, learn to handle diverse teams and build industry connections that set you apart and prepare you for technology’s most competitive product management roles.

Internships

Each spring, companies like PayPal, Grubhub, Cisco and Home Depot recruit our students for internships. You’ll gain on-the-job experience with corporate employers as you work with product teams, build relationships with mentors and apply the skills you learn in class. Many of our students receive full-time return offers from their internships.

Capstones

Solve real product problems for top companies. As a consultant to businesses across healthcare, retail, software and more, you’ll assess and identify solutions in a number of categories and explore new technology applications to help companies take their products to the next level.

Simplify software product pricing
Measure patient outcomes to better serve clinical practice
Explore Mixed Reality Platforms in the education sector
Take businesses beyond traditional brick and mortar locations
Applications of predictive analytics AI products in healthcare
Unlock sales to large (Fortune 100) government contractors

CUSTOMER DISCOVERY

Explore a new vertical market for a real estate product by conducting problem discovery on how companies select locations for new stores by cold contacting leads, doing market sizing, creating personas and defining capabilities and a roadmap based on the existing product.

BUSINESS PROCESS

A healthcare company is looking to disrupt the slow, expensive and bureaucratic process of supplying equipment to a specific type of customer. Students designed new, streamlined workflow models to accomplish this goal and presented a marketplace model and accompanying financial models.

USER EXPERIENCE

Improve the usability of a robotic process automation tool such that non-engineers are able to use it. Perform competitive analysis and identify opportunities for features that may create advantage.

STRATEGY

For a venture company, create a framework to steer portfolio decisions and priorities. This required the students to develop workflows and processes to prioritize information, stakeholders, and feature requests.

INNOVATION

An open-ended challenge to identify opportunities in the transportation space to revolutionize the sponsor’s business model in preparation for electric vehicles and reduced fuel dependency.

DATA SCIENCE

A retailer knows that their system is stacking discounts in an unintended manner. Build and test a model to detect and rank the unintended discounts.

Product Careers Launched

Debashish Sasmal

A UPMC Enterprises capstone project provided deep insight into product management and the healthcare industry — paving the way for a multidimensional career.

Pranita Ramakrishnan

A product management internship led a former Digital Business Consultant to a future career as a product manager at Home Depot.

Ashwin Rao

An internship with our strategic partner PayPal brought scaled product management to life for this startup-oriented software engineer.

Employers

Our internships and capstone projects allow MSPM students to come in direct contact with some of the world’s top brands. You’ll graduate with hands-on experience and industry connections that guide your career to new heights.