From refugee to MIT graduate student
As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025
Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families.
Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars
Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.
A launchpad for entrepreneurship in aerospace
The Certificate in Aerospace Innovation gives students the tools and confidence to be aerospace entrepreneurs during an inflection point in the industry.
Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang wins 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition
MIT graduate student earns top honors in Graduate and People’s Choice categories for her work on nutrient-stabilizing materials.
Stopping the bomb
Political science PhD student Kunal Singh identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons.
Bridging military service and engineering
Two MIT graduate students share similar journeys from West Point to MIT.
Connecting the US Coast Guard to MIT Sloan
For the past 50 years, the Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program. “When you leave MIT Sloan, you want to change the world,” says one alumnus.
How examining conflict can be “intellectually serious” and “incredibly fun”
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students.
Rallying around graduate student parents
From helping new parents to coordinating play dates and sharing information, MIT students who are parents are there for one another.