by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the #1 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Schools for Master's Degrees ranking. This is quite an accomplishment, considering the ranking looked at 1149 schools. To earn this coveted #1 rank, the school excelled in the categories mentioned above. As a result, MIT is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
MIT also ranked #1 for Best Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, MIT came in at #1. To earn this coveted #1 rank, the school excelled in the categories mentioned above. Because of its high ranking, MIT won the Best Doctorate Schools badge this year.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in Massachusetts, MIT came in at #1.
Women make up 37.4% of the total graduate student body at MIT while men make you 62.6%. These percentages may be different for specific degree programs.
About 23.0% of the graduate students who attend MIT are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 41.0% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $55,510 | $55,510 |
| Fees | $3,457 | $3,457 |
Graduate students earning a master's degree from MIT enter careers with an average starting salary of $107,308. That's pretty good comparatively. In fact, it is 84% higher than the national average of $58,425.
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from MIT enter careers with an average starting salary of $115,303. Chalk that up in the win column since that salary is 53% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Contact details for MIT are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 |
| Phone: | 617-253-1000 |
| Website: | web.mit.edu/ |
In 2020-2021, 1.2% of the graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology took at least one class online. Roughly 0.8% of all grad students took courses exclusively online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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