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  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    .[/intro] A private university in the public interest The story of MIT begins ... of the arts, and a school of industrial science. The state agreed, and allocated land in Boston's Back Bay, on the condition that the institution
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Accessing advanced coursework

    If your high school doesn’t offer courses that help you prepare for ... may carry themselves beyond what is offered at their local high school ... programs, which offer college-level courses at a local high school, college
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    of how many classes you may have taken at the university level—even if you graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree ... -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    Harvard University for degree credit at no extra charge. Harvard subjects ... [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... teaching certification, which is recognized in many states, to teach at the
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    before beginning a Bachelor's degree program or equivalent."]a secondary ... high school in U.S. states and territories, or students outside of the U ... American high schools."]offers an American curriculum,[/annotation] then we
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and ... teams, we offer the largest Division III program in the nation, in ... other universities, while intramural sports are teams of MIT students
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Arts & music

    of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing ... -based laboratory offering an undergraduate minor and concentration, plus a variety of ... degree programs; hands-on classes; makerspaces; and 100+ concerts and
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    : 47% of 2023 bachelor’s degree graduates had internship/externship that led to accepted job offer. 45% found jobs through networking. 31 ... % have pursued a graduate or professional degree since graduating from MIT
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    elsewhere, that offer compelling intellectual content and a rigorous ... free to attend or (like MIT) offer generous need-based financial aid. MIT summer programs MIT does not offer open-enrollment summer programs where
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    to apply to American universities, including MIT. We particularly ... application, MIT considers any student who does not hold United States ... significant time in the United States, or those who have a liminal status as
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    ,500 undergraduates at MIT. They hail from all 50 states and more than 100 countries ... alumni, while others come from hundreds of other universities around the ... , at some point, pursue a graduate degree, and benefit from having
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    these schools offers degrees in their courses of study, as well as minors ... 're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    College access & advising programs

    consortium of colleges and universities dedicated to working with high schools ... Warrior-Scholar Project is a national nonprofit organization that offers ... backgrounds CollegeBoard offers a free online resource called BigFuture to lower
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full-time university student. Students may apply during or after their final year of ... another degree-granting institution.[/annotation] Please note that MIT does
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in Boston's Back Bay, much has changed about the MIT education: electric ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    -year undergraduate students a new state-of-the art community makerspace, the MET ... -of-the-classroom projects. [embed]https://youtu.be/WQvgfjLmO8w[/embed] D-Lab D-Lab offers