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  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to know them yourself? Student perspectives Explore a day in the Life of MIT
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... admission. If you are in your first year of college, the earliest you can
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    mentorships, and chats over coffee. According to a survey of graduating students ... students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future ... to all alumni. MIT alumni also volunteer in formal service to the

  • Housing and residence life

    want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels ... project and is anticipated to reopen in fall 2025.']in operation ... kitchens! All residence halls have a live-in house team who cultivate
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... -delivering channels that release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and ... -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT

  • Arts and music

    Orchestra, Festival Jazz Ensemble, and Rambax, a Senegalese drumming group, to name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their ... are more than a dozen active dance ensembles at MIT, and the best way to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... apply to another school during Early Action that does have a restriction
  • Help / Contact

    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... -America citations, the most of any DIII school in the nation. As a Division III
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Academic preparation

    are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject, you may ... applicants generally have a GPA of 3.5 or above, and mostly A's in mathematics
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    The application The first-year application is open in the MIT application portal. Please note: You’re only allowed to apply once per entry ... to be completed online. Creative portfolios in SlideRoom are available
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    DACA & undocumented applicants

    consider your (in)ability to pay for MIT in our admissions process ... personal expenses. MIT is committed to supporting undocumented students in ... preservation of DACA and advocating for a pathway to citizenship, and MIT filed

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    Athletes (via Slice of MIT) A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete (blog ... [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... . Chances are, if you're into something, you can find someone else on campus
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    STEM programs

    students PRIMES-USA, a free, year-long research program in math open to ... students find to be exciting resources for their growth—though your local ... students come from a wide variety of contexts and may not be able to access
  • Help / Contact

    Via phone

    Our phone number is 1.617.253.3400. That's it. That's the number you'd call, and we'll pick up as long as it's between 9AM and 4PM ET, Monday through Friday. This probably didn't need to be its own page, but now that
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    congressman and senator in a state's congressional delegation—to fund colleges ... .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new ... students in a U.S. institution...To achieve this ideal, MIT provided
  • Discover / Learn more

    Books about MIT

    the evolution of MIT as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the ...  by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson, which provides a lively introduction to ... humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society by a former
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    presents a hardship for you and your family, you may request a fee waiver ... sure to include your name, date of birth, and application reference ... all of your secondary/high school, college, and university transcripts