The small class size means you get to know almost everyone and facilitates lasting relationships. I was a fellow in the Leaders for Manufacturing program which altered my educational experience slightly. The internship part of the program is six months in length and serves as the basis for our thesis requirement. This program made my educational experience a step better than what I felt I would have received in the basic MBA program. In fact, during the summer, there is not one individual assignment.
All work is turned in as a team, and the only way to differentiate the students is from exam scores.
During the summer, the workload is equivalent to the regular core, but it is completed in two-thirds of the time. To use a materials science analogy, which is the engineering field I studied during the program, when you put people in a small room and apply pressure and heat, bonding results. MIT's Enterpreneurship Center is raising both the study and practice of startup ventures to an entirely new level, one that brings the engineering and scientific resources of the University together with the business acumen of Sloan's faculty and student body. Equally important, the composition of the student population is beginning to reflect the importance which both the institution, and, indeed, the United States, place on the development of emerging markets. Talk about practical, timely experience.