Graduate Policies & Procedures

• Student status
  • Regular student
  • International student
  • Listener
  • Special student
  • Part time status
  • Nonresident status
  • Visiting student
  • Exchange scholar
  • Transfer student
  • Institute research staff
• Registration requirements
  • Status of registration
  • Retention of student status
  • Medical report requirement
  • Credit
  • Academic terms
  • Tuition and fees
• Changes in registration
  • Add/drop
  • Medical withdrawal
  • Medical withdrawal: policy
  • Medical withdrawal: procedure
  • Personal leave
  • Childbirth accommodation (“Maternity leave”)
  • Leave for U.S. National Service
  • Withdrawal, readmission
  • Denials of further registration
  • Registration holds
• Cross registration
  • Harvard University
  • Wellesley College
• Partnerships & exchanges
  • Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies
  • MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives
  • Exchange Scholar Program
  • Cambridge-MIT Institute
  • Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
  • Other interdisciplinary study and research
• Academic performance
  • Graduate academic standards
  • Grades
  • Cumulative rating
  • Subject credits and designations
  • Grade reports and transcripts