Massachusetts Institute of Technology Academic Experience

Past Performance

• 97% of our freshmen returned for sophomore year.
• 79% of our most recent graduates graduated in four years.
• How long does it usually take to graduate from freshman year?
  • On average, 80% of our freshman graduate in four years.
  • On average, 9% of our freshman graduate in five years.

What Do We Like To Study?

Most Popular Majors

• electrical engineering/computer science
• mechanical engineering
• biology

Academic Calendar for 2002-03.

Academic Calendar System:

• 4-1-4 System (two semsters and one-month January interterm)

Summer Sessions:

• 1 summer session(s) that consist of 10 weeks.

New student orientation:

• Orientation for new students is held in August and September.

• 50% continue within one year.

• Law School: 2%
• Medical School: 12%
• Graduate Business Programs: 3%
• Graduate Arts and Sciences Programs: 13%
• Other: 20%

• Boston University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, MIT, Stanford U.

• Bell Labs, Ford Motor Co., General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Jet Propulsion Lab, McKinsey & Co., Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Schlumberger.

• I.M. Pei, architect; John S. Reed, CEO, Citicorp; John M. Deutch, director, Central Intelligence Agency.