CMU MSCV
Program Overview
A 1.5-year CV program under SCS Robotics Institute. Summer internship is mandatory but can be substituted with on-campus summer research.
Admission Preferences
Strong emphasis on being a good match. Prefers candidates with top CV conference publications, CV research experience, or CV internship/work experience. Candidates without a CV background need very high metrics.
Most students are from mainland China undergrad / Hong Kong-Taiwan undergrad and India. Mainland China admits come from a wide range of schools. Indian students almost all have around two years of work experience.
Representative Data Points
- City University of Hong Kong Math undergrad, one ICLR paper, one ECCV paper
- NTU undergrad, GPA 4.15, 1.5 years full-time at Microsoft
- NTU CS undergrad, one SIGGRAPH paper, one top-tier vision conference paper
- UCSD CS undergrad, GPA 3.95
- UCI undergrad, GPA 3.97, two top-tier CV conference papers
- University College Dublin, GPA 3.98, six publications
- WHU ECE undergrad, GPA 3.95
- National Chiao Tung University CS undergrad, one NeurIPS paper
- Indian student, undergrad, GPA 9.18, five publications (including one CVPR)
- UT undergrad, had Huawei research internship
- Indian student, CS undergrad, GPA 9.5, two years full-time experience, four publications, one CVPR and one ICLR
- NYU CS undergrad, GPA 3.8
Job Outcomes & Data Points
For internships, most people go for MLE intern roles, covering hot industrial areas such as autonomous driving, 3D Vision, LLM/VLM, etc.
Job landing rate is 91%. Companies include DeepMind, Adobe, TikTok, Meta, Amazon, and more. The rest went on to pursue PhDs.
- UCSD CS undergrad, landed Waymo
- University College Dublin, landed Meta intern, then landed Apple as new grad
- WHU ECE undergrad, landed WeRide
- UT undergrad, had Huawei research internship, landed Samsung as new grad
- NYU CS undergrad, had 2 small domestic company internships, landed at a small company