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Research Facilities
The Institute's research facilities are generally available to
all MIT students, regardless of specific degree program, who have
legitimate academic needs to use them. Among these facilities
are:
Bates Linear Accelerator
Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory
Cell Culture Center
Center for Advanced Engineering Study
Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Center for Biological and Computational Learning
Center for Cancer Research
Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science
Center for Construction Research and Education
Center for Global Change Science
Center for Health Effects of Fossil Fuels Utilization
Center for Information Systems Research
Center for International Studies
Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology
Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Center for Real Estate
Center for Space Research
Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development
Center for Transportation and Logistics
Clinical Research Center
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Energy Laboratory
George Russell Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory
Harvard-MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering
Innovation Center
International Food and Nutrition Program
Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University
Kavli Center for Space Research
Laboratory of Architecture and Planning
Laboratory for Computer Science
Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Lincoln Laboratory (research and development in advanced electronics)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Materials Processing Center
Media Laboratory
Microsystems Technology Labs
Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute
Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
Picower Center for Learning and Memory
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Sea Grant College Program
Stroboscopic Light and Pulsed Sonar Laboratory
Technology Adaptation Program
George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory
George R. Wallace, Jr. Geophysical Observatory
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Housing Services
Graduate students at MIT are entering a tight housing market whether
they are looking for accommodations on campus or in the surrounding
Boston/Cambridge area. Many new students, both single and married,
must find apartments off campus, often in suburbs up to ten miles
away, where there is greater variety and availability than in
the neighborhoods near MIT. The Housing Office at MIT helps students
with the housing search and keeps an up-to-date list of available
units. In addition, MIT gives preference to new students when
assigning on-campus housing. Most new single students requesting
on-campus housing can be accommodated; family housing, however,
is severely limited. Detailed housing information and application
forms are available on-line through the Housing Office website
at http://web.mit.edu/housing.
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On-campus housing and services for married students.
While approximately half of MIT's more than 6,000 graduate students
are married, there are only 407 family units on campus. Most of
these are located in two tower apartment complexes; a few are
in three-story walk-ups intended for families with young children.
All units have readily available parking, and community facilities.
Day care and preschool facilities are available in each family
building which are open to the children of students whether they
live on campus or off campus. Assignments to on-campus family
apartments are made through an extremely competitive lottery.
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On-campus housing for single students.
Single students may apply for housing in six on-campus facilities
with a total capacity of about 2,000, less than half the number
of single graduate students. Ashdown House, a graduate dormitory
housing men and women, consists primarily of one- and two-person
rooms, typically arranged as suites for four or five students.
The single rooms are not available to entering students. Green
Hall houses 46 graduate women, with 28 single and nine double
rooms. Tang Hall is a tower apartment building that accommodates
404 first-year graduate men and women, with apartments containing
individual bedrooms for two, three, or four students. One hundred
ninety graduate students live in Edgerton House, which has efficiency
units through four-bedroom apartments and duplexes; one-third
of the spaces in this building are reserved for new students.
224 Albany Street (also known as the Warehouse and NW30) houses
85 new men and women in efficiency apartments for 9 months of
the year (September to May); there are a few spaces available
in the summer through a lottery. Sidney-Pacific houses 700 men
and women in efficiency, 2-bedroom and quad occupancy 2-bedroom
apartments. 40% of the spaces in this facility are reserved for
new students. Rooms in Ashdown House, Green Hall, Tang Hall, 224
Albany Street and Sidney-Pacific are furnished; the apartments
in Edgerton are unfurnished except for refrigerators and electric
ranges. Rooms modified for handicapped students are available
in all these buildings. Complete information is available on-line
at http://web.mit.edu/housing/grad.
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Health and Counseling Services
The MIT Student Health Program consists of on-campus medical services,
covered by a mandatory student health fee which is included in
the tuition, and of hospital and accident insurance, for which
all students are enrolled unless they demonstrate that they have
equivalent coverage through another insurance program. Additional
coverage is available for spouses and dependents.
Prior to matriculation, all new students must complete a Medical
Report with required immunizations and tests. MIT offers many
sources of academic and personal counseling, including departmental
faculty advisors, deans, international student advisors, religious
counselors, the Career Planning and Placement Office, and the Medical Department.
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Student Activities
Graduate students at MIT find a community with wide extracurricular
interests and many opportunities to enjoy them. More than 100
student-directed activities are supported by excellent facilities
and by capable staff to help students acquire new skills and participate
actively in campus life. MIT offers a rich program of lectures,
music, drama, athletics, and clubs, augmented by the abundant
cultural activities found throughout Boston and Cambridge.
MIT's intramural and club athletic programs are open to graduate
students, who enjoy sports including badminton, basketball, bowling,
cricket, cross-country, cycling, touch football, golf, hockey,
ice skating, judo, karate, riflery, rugby, sailing, rowing, softball,
squash, swimming, tennis, table-tennis, track, volleyball, water
polo, weight lifting, white-water canoeing, and wrestling. All
of the many art, drama, music, and religious activities welcome
graduate students as active participants.
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) is an elected body whose membership
includes graduate student representatives of all departments,
graduate living groups, and international students. The GSC is
concerned primarily with promoting the general welfare of graduate
students and providing a forum for their ideas and suggestions.
It encourages social, athletic, cultural, and other extracurricular
activities, fostering closer relations between graduate students
and faculty both inside and beyond formal academic contexts. The
Council has two student representatives on the Committee on Graduate
School Policy, the faculty body responsible to the administration
of the Graduate School, and it also selects graduate student representatives
for many other MIT committees.
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