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    Arts & music

    of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... creativity, both in and out of classes. Some of the many ways you can explore ... Art, just to name a few. The arts have always been an essential part of
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    .[/intro] The big picture The full price of an MIT education is $85,960 for the ... demonstrated financial need for all four years of your undergraduate career. The ... . Meanwhile, 87% of MIT students from the Class of 2024 graduated debt
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our mission

    with our admissions process and financial aid. The MIT Office of ... of some of the world’s most intelligent and creative individuals ... . Alden Thresher, an economist and the first Director of Admissions at MIT
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States ... —redefining the nature of research at MIT. Hundreds of academic papers published ... mentorship. The projects span every stage of the process of academic inquiry
  • Discover / About MIT

    Basic facts

    relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars (and humans ... curated from the latest issue of the MIT Facts book and data from MIT
  • Discover / Learn more

    Admissions videos

    in the Museum's archives. A product of its times, and resonant with ... by faculty of the need to work ethically in the production of science ... MIT, "The Social Beaver" focused on the community living and range of
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    of examples. Collaborative and cooperative spirit The core of the MIT ... Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at ... . The character of the MIT community Our community is comprised of
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    the core of MIT. The Institute has: over 40 design ... -year undergraduate students a new state-of-the art community makerspace, the MET ... set of makerspaces where you can design and test your out-of-the
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of clever and elegant pranks that exist at the intersection of creative
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Academic preparation

    appropriate level for each of the disciplines mentioned above. Core graduation ... . Most students enter MIT as sophomores, regardless of the amount of ... transfer students take a variety of mathematics and science courses before
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    strong foundation in core fields of human knowledge (implemented by the ... ='As the Lewis Report put it long ago: “We believe that the mission of the Institute should be to encourage initiative, to promote the spirit of free and
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no record. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, students may ... ongoing experiment: in 2018, it was the subject of a design course called
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    First-year class profile

    For the MIT Class of 2028 Some facts and figures about the ... [/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our Dean of Admissions + Student Financial Services about the composition of
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    Estimate your cost

    . The Net Price Calculator will give you an estimate of your net cost and ... [intro]Find out what it will cost to attend MIT with one of our cost calculators.[/intro] MyinTuition Quick College Cost Estimator The Quick

  • Arts and music

    they are in the lab. More than half of undergrads enroll in arts and ... -level academic program and dozens of performance ensembles, like the MIT Symphony ... design! Other highlights Trashion Show Chalk of the Day Arts at MIT
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    Returning students

    experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we ... while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript ... are difficult to obtain. The decision about what letters of support to