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Graduate Policies & Procedures

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Admissions & Registration
Advanced Degrees
Financial Assistance
Faculty Oversight
Roles & Relationships

Degrees offered

  • Master’s degree
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Engineering
    • Master of Architecture
    • Master in City Planning
    • Master of Business Administration
    • Master of Finance
    • Simultaneous registration for two master’s degrees
    • Simultaneous award of bachelor’s and master’s degrees
    • Engineer’s degree
  • Doctoral degree
    • Minor Program
    • Language proficiency
  • Interdepartmental programs
    • Interdepartmental doctoral degree program
    • Interdepartmental engineer’s degree program
    • Interdepartmental master’s degree program
  • Thesis
    • Joint theses
    • Restrictions on thesis publication
    • Patent protection
    • Government restrictions
    • Privacy and security
    • Thesis research in absentia
    • Nonresident doctoral thesis research status
    • Preparation of graduate theses
    • Copyright
    • Intellectual property policy
    • Thesis hold
  • Degrees offered
  • Award of degrees
    • Diploma format

Graduate degrees are awarded through each of MIT’s five Schools and through interdisciplinary programs.

School of Architecture and Planning

School of Engineering

School of Science

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sloan School of Management

Interdisciplinary graduate programs

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Office of the Dean for Graduate Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-138, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
T (617) 253-4860 | F (617) 253-5620 | Contact: odge@mit.edu