Scholarships are available to exceptional students admitted to the professional master's degree program. Students admitted to the department's research-oriented Master of Science program receive financial support only if additional funds are available after support has been provided for all qualified doctoral candidates. Approximately 25 percent of MIT's graduate students live in MIT's residential system, with the remainder finding housing in the Boston area. Graduate students' costs for housing, food, books, and incidentals vary. More than 90 percent of the department's graduate students are working toward a Ph.D. Slightly fewer than half of the student population is international students.
All students are full-time.
Student Outcomes Students completing graduate studies in the department enter jobs in academic research or industry in about equal numbers. Many graduates go on to jobs as faculty members or research scientists at a university, national lab, or industrial research facility. Graduates are working in the oil, environmental, computer, and financial industries. Location MIT is one of more than fifty schools in the Boston area, and the concentration of academic, cultural, and intellectual activities is one of the highest in the country. MIT is also a short drive from mountain skiing, ocean beaches, and the many outdoor recreational parks of New England.