Search

  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    students from all backgrounds. Our Principles In pursuing our mission, and ... Our Office The [annotation note="MIT Admissions for short ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute

  • Maps, directions, parking

    Hayward Parking Garage, accessible at 33 Amherst Street, and keep your ... Admissions at MIT Welcome Center We are located at the MIT Welcome ... MIT section of our site. The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    Estimate your cost

    [intro]Find out what it will cost to attend MIT with one of our cost ... Calculator is a tool designed by the College Board to help you assess what your eligibility for financial aid might be and estimate your out-of-pocket expenses

  • Student life at MIT

    (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... [intro]No day at MIT could really be described as typical. You would likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    contribute creatively to our society, in this day when strong forces oppose all ... rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding ... particular area of expertise (obtained through your major(s) and courses of
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    . Other summer programs at MIT Do you want to spend part of your summer at ... If you're the kind of student who'd like to spend your summer ... selective summer programs, at MIT and elsewhere, that offer compelling
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    your best self by pursuing your interests, your aptitudes, and your education. What you shouldn't do is build your life, your education, and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get into MIT. As our Dean Stu

  • Next steps

    [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We ... @mit.edu and you’ll be matched with a current student who can answer your ... [/button_link] Keep in touch If you like what you see, consider signing up for our
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    [intro]At MIT, majors are conventionally called courses, and they're numbered rather than named; meanwhile, our credits are called units and they're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    advising at MIT is formally coordinated by the office of Career Advising & ... % found jobs through a career fair. 75% of all graduating seniors completed internships while at MIT. In 2023, 49% percent of undergraduates
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

    We love data at MIT. Reliable data, properly contextualized, can help ... years ago, we began publishing our own admissions statistics which went ... . Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not determine our
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    the public interest at the intersection of technology and humanity ... ..."]anti-immigrant nativist political sentiment.[/annotation] As our blogger Yuliya wrote in her early history of international students at MIT: In 1909, [Scotland
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    high school and completed at least one year of college. If you are still ... how many classes you may have taken at the university or college level ... will have completed at least two terms of study with high academic
  • About

    Meet the admissions officers

    MIT admissions officers are involved with all aspects of the ... : “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life ... : “Schitt’s Creek”—10/10 would stay at the Rosebud Motel​ Favorite ice cream
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    cycles for two reasons: 1) it helps us spread our work out over a longer ... . Rules and restrictions Early Action is an option for all applicants, domestic and international. Our Early Action isn't single-choice, binding, or
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    Institute, you can cross-register for no additional cost at Harvard, Wellesley ... to help our students develop their interests by cross-registering when and as appropriate. Harvard MIT undergraduates may take subjects at

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    . Chances are, if you're into something, you can find someone else on campus ... active than you think. Don't take our word for it—watch Kylie Y. ’19 and AJ ... ="https://mitadmissions.org/arts-and-music-virtual"]We're not all STEM all the time, you know[/button_link]
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    [intro]At MIT, "hacks" are performed by students who safely and ... experience the hack.[/intro] At MIT, hacking refers to more than breaking into ... clever and elegant pranks that exist at the intersection of creative
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and ... NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... , our varsity athletes have slightly higher GPAs than non-varsity athletes