Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
At MIT, students and faculty from different fields work together in a variety of collaborative programs that extend beyond departmental or school boundaries. The following programs offer a number of interdisciplinary graduate degrees:
- Advanced Urbanism
- Computation and Cognition
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Computer Science and Molecular Biology
- Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science
- Computer Science and Molecular Biology
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
- History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society
- Joint Program with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Leaders for Global Operations
- Music Technology and Computation
- Microbiology
- Operations Research
- Polymers and Soft Matter
- Real Estate Development
- Social and Engineering Systems
- Statistics
- Supply Chain Management
- System Design and Management
- Technology and Policy
- Transportation
Several programs of study offer students from participating departments opportunities to focus on a particular area of interdisciplinary research as part of their home department’s degree program:
Interdisciplinary Graduate Degrees
Advanced Urbanism
PhD | Advanced Urbanism 1 |
Computation and Cognition (Course 6-9P)
MEng | Computation and Cognition |
Computational and Systems Biology
PhD | Computational and Systems Biology 1 |
Computational Science and Engineering
SM | Computational Science and Engineering 1 |
PhD, ScD | Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science 1 2 |
PhD, ScD | Chemical Engineering and Computation 1 |
PhD, ScD | Civil Engineering and Computation 1 |
PhD, ScD | Computational Earth, Science and Planetary Sciences 1 |
PhD, ScD | Computational Materials Science and Engineering 1 |
PhD, ScD | Computational Nuclear Science and Engineering 1 |
PhD, ScD | Environmental Engineering and Computation 1 |
PhD, ScD | Mathematics and Computational Science 1 |
PhD, ScD | Mechanical Engineering and Computation 1 |
PhD, ScD | Nuclear Engineering and Computation 1 |
Computer Science and Molecular Biology (Course 6-7P)
MEng | Computer Science and Molecular Biology 1 |
Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
SM | Health Sciences and Technology |
MD | Medical Sciences (degree from Harvard Medical School) |
ScD, PhD | Health Sciences and Technology |
ScD, PhD | Health Sciences and Technology—Bioastronautics |
ScD, PhD | Health Sciences and Technology—Medical Engineering and Medical Physics |
History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society
SM | History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society |
PhD | History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society |
Leaders for Global Operations
SM/MBA | Engineering/Management 1 |
Microbiology
PhD | Microbiology 1 |
Music Technology and Computation
MASc | Music Technology and Computation 1 |
SM | Music Technology and Computation 1 |
Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
SM | Oceanographic Engineering 3 |
SM | Physical Oceanography |
ScD, PhD | Applied Ocean Science and Engineering |
ScD, PhD | Biological Oceanography |
ScD, PhD | Chemical Oceanography |
ScD, PhD | Marine Geology and Geophysics |
ScD, PhD | Physical Oceanography |
Operations Research
SM | Operations Research 1 |
PhD | Operations Research 1 |
Polymers and Soft Matter
PhD, ScD | Polymers and Soft Matter 1 |
Real Estate Development
SM | Real Estate Development |
Statistics
PhD | Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Statistics |
PhD | Cognitive Science and Statistics |
PhD | Economics and Statistics |
PhD | Mathematics and Statistics |
PhD | Mechanical Engineering and Statistics |
PhD | Neuroscience and Statistics |
PhD | Physics, Statistics, and Data Science |
PhD | Political Science and Statistics |
PhD | Social and Engineering Systems and Statistics |
Supply Chain Management
MASc | Supply Chain Management 1 |
MEng | Supply Chain Management 1 |
System Design and Management
SM | Engineering and Management 1 |
Technology and Policy
SM | Technology and Policy |
Transportation
SM | Transportation 1 |
PhD, ScD | Transportation 1 |
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2 | Students who matriculated in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics doctoral program and the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) doctoral program in academic year 2023–2024 or earlier can choose eitherPhD/ScD in Computational Science and Engineering or the PhD/ScD in Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science. AeroAstro/CSE students who matriculate in academic year 2024–2025 or later will receive the PhD/ScD in Aerospace Engineering and Computational Science. |
3 | With the exception of engineering, the SM is only available to participants in the Naval Officer program. |