Masters of Engineering: Admission
An FAQ
1. What is the M.Eng Program?
The EECS Masters of Engineering Program is a five-year, combined, simultaneous bachelors/masters program in EECS. Think of it as a four-year bachelor's and two-year master's condensed into five or five and a half years. Only Course VI MIT undergraduates are eligible to apply. Non-Course VI and non-MIT students must apply to our regular graduate program.
Students must receive the EECS bachelor's degree before or with the master's degree. Students enrolled in any of the three Course VI undergraduate degrees (6-1, 6-2, or 6-3) are eligible. All of the department's graduate degrees carry the name of the department, EECS, rather than having two or 20 different flavors. You can choose to receive the bachelor's first, but you must finish all the bachelor's requirements to get it. If you choose to obtain the degrees simultaneously, you may integrate the requirements. It is very important to start graduate classes, and especially the master's thesis, early in the senior year. Not doing so may delay completion of the master's into a sixth year.
2. How does one get admitted to M.Eng?
To apply, juniors complete and submit the application. The application is due for juniors on May 1st , and you will receive a response from us by the end of June. Most important are your grades in Course VI classes and the required math classes. You need to have a solid technical (Courses 6, 8 and 18) GPA of at least 4.25 to be admitted at the end of your junior year; and you must have at least a 4.0 overall in the term you apply. Students whose GPA falls between a 3.9 or so and a 4.2 will be put ‘on hold' for another term of grades and reviewed again the following January. A few students may even be kept on hold until the next June. You should also have completed one or more UROPs.
For students who are a term out of sync in either direction, or who decide they may be interested in entering the M.Eng.program early, there is a December 1st deadline, with responses by the end of January.