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    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 ... learn through programs that are at the leading edge of their field
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    Cross-registration

    [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... Harvard University for degree credit at no extra charge. Harvard subjects ... : “the Institute should encourage initiative, promote the spirit of free
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    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 ... pursuing a different field of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. By
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    A brief history of MIT

    .[/intro] A private university in the public interest The story of MIT begins ... of ore from Colorado, here.']earn a degree in STEM ... [intro]In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of
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    Transfer eligibility

    of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. If you are ineligible for ... high school and completed at least one year of college. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    What to do in high school

    every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school. We understand that high schools have different offerings and families ... students must take (or place out of, through our credit policies or an
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    Global education

    university overseas a global classroom program that offers students short ... [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... year, hundreds of students intern, teach, research, and collaborate in
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community ... . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than
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    Life after MIT

    : 47% of 2023 bachelor’s degree graduates had internship/externship that ... . Here are some of the things they do next.[/intro] Careers Career advising at MIT is formally coordinated by the office of Career Advising &
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    Arts & music

    -based laboratory offering an undergraduate minor and concentration, plus a variety of ... [intro]More than half of all undergraduates take part in arts and ... of contemporary art, is home to a state-of-the-art black box performing
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    Academic preparation

    transfer students take a variety of mathematics and science courses before applying, taking full advantage of their institution’s offerings in these ... ’s offer of admission.
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    Books about MIT

    , and impact on the world. Here are some of our favorites: A Widening ... small technical school into a major research university Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision a volume edited by Professor David Kaiser, which traces
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    first person in their family to attend college. They offer a range of ... free or comparatively affordable. MIT offers four of our own (above), and ... If you're the kind of student who'd like to spend your summer
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    DACA & undocumented applicants

    As part of our mission to uphold meritocracy and fair access for ... , regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Undocumented and [annotation ... students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee
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    Athletics & recreation

    other universities, while intramural sports are teams of MIT students ... 'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for ... United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and
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    How much it costs

    . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your ... Services website. One of eight We are one of only eight American universities ... education. We award aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need
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    The MIT community

    alumni, while others come from hundreds of other universities around the ... . This unusual degree of access has deep cultural roots in our longstanding ... Institute and they'll probably say "the people." The quality of the MIT

  • Explore MIT on your own

    for free Enroll in one of MIT's free, self-paced courses offered through ... .[/intro] Let's get started At the bottom of each page—starting with this one ... rabbit hole deep into the digital MIT universe...we consider that a success
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    International applicants

    MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ... to apply to American universities, including MIT. We particularly