Whether you're crunching numbers for an econ thesis, analyzing survey data for psych research, or building models for a finance class — you have access to the same professional tools that analysts at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey use. No student licenses. The real thing.
Free access to MATLAB, Simulink, and add-on products under CMU's Campus-Wide License, installable on personal and university computers plus MATLAB Online in a browser.
For teaching, research, and learning use. Requires linking a MathWorks account to the institutional license.
Free Wolfram Mathematica for technical computing, available natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as in the cloud via web browser.
Licensed for academic, non-commercial use only; remove all copies when affiliation with CMU ends.
Free access to hundreds of licensed research databases and eResources including JSTOR, Web of Science, ProQuest, and IEEE. Available to current CMU affiliates with an Andrew ID login.
eResources accessed with Andrew ID; off-campus access via library proxy.
Free one-on-one consultations and workshops for R, Python, and data-science tools, plus access to learning platforms like Dataquest and Sage Campus.
Book in-person or virtual appointments; some platforms require registering with a CMU email.
Free in-person access to Bloomberg Terminals with real-time and historical data on millions of bonds, equities, commodities, currencies, and funds.
Terminals at Tepper School, Hunt Library, and Sorrells Library; on-site only, first-come. Tepper terminals prioritized for Tepper users.
Free academic access to major financial research databases — WRDS (Compustat, CRSP, OptionMetrics, TRACE) and S&P Capital IQ valuation and market data — through the CMU Libraries finance guide.
Register with a CMU email for WRDS; Capital IQ terminals are in Tepper Quad, TCS Hall, Hunt and Sorrells Libraries (Pittsburgh campus, academic use only).