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  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT ... salary of $145,820 for graduates entering industry according to the most ... your ability to pay for college in the admissions process; full need

  • Explore MIT on your own

    [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... to share that excitement with.[/intro] Student activities Sure, there ... might expect. But MIT students also run a Laboratory for Chocolate Science
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    Application: The application for spring entry is due October 15, 2026. The application for fall entry is due March 1, 2027. Only U.S. citizens and U ... must take a test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be

  • MIT visits you

    [intro]Not everyone can take the time to come to MIT, so we do our best to come to you. We crisscross the U.S. as often as we can, so that you can learn more about MIT and see if it may be right for you
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    hall is closed for a two-year renovation project and is anticipated to ... own distinct culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for eight ... to live All incoming first-year students are sent the MIT Guide to
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    [intro]For more than 150 years, the Institute has married teaching ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary people in everyday life.[/intro] For MIT's 150th anniversary, the Boston

  • Housing and residence life

    [intro]Housing is guaranteed for eight consecutive semesters your ... -campus residence halls. And MIT allows its students to choose which residence they want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    First-year class profile

    percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero ... universities use when collecting and reporting sex data for students to the U ... collecting and reporting data about race and ethnicity for domestic students to
  • Discover / About MIT

    Basic facts

    relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are ... statistics and the first-year class profile; for statistics on financial aid

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    Association for extraordinary, lifelong service to the Institute. Our values In ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and prepare for further undergraduate study.[/intro] Academic exploration
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    objective inquiry, to recognize and provide opportunities for unusual ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in order to graduate. However, the MIT education has always been based on
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... things, and from trying to make them work. This "maker education" is at ... training program, MakerLodge, to teach making skills to first
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

     credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your ... research, for pay or for credit, during their undergraduate years ... you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands
  • Discover / Learn more

    Other videos

    More than 40 MIT[annotation note="That's jargon for Departments, Labs, and Centers, the basic organizational entities that constitute MIT ... people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

    beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not ... characteristics like these are much harder to quantify and are therefore not