The EECS Department is the largest in the School of Engineering with about 700 graduate students in the doctoral program. [Application is for the doctoral program only — there is no terminal masters degree, but all PhD students earn a masters degree as they work towards PhD. A Masters of Engineering is only available for qualified MIT EECS undergraduates.]
The application website (see link below) is available on September 15, 2026, for students who wish to apply for graduate admission in September 2026. The deadline for submitting completed applications is December 1, 2026.
Applicants to the MIT EECS graduate program should apply using the MIT online admissions site.
Admissions decisions will be sent by the Office of Graduate Education’s MIT Application Management system. When an admissions decision is posted to the system, you will be notified of an update to your application via email, and directed to log in to the system to view the update. All decisions related to your submitted application will be posted via this system.
Questions not answered by the FAQs? Please send inquiries not already addressed by the previous link to grad-ap@eecs.mit.edu. Any inquiries regarding the MIT Application Management platform should be sent to gradadmissions@mit.edu.
Questions about general MIT Graduate Admissions? Please see the Office of Graduate Education’s Frequently Asked Questions.
For information on our faculty and what they’re currently working on, take a look at our Faculty Interests Guide.
For more information about answering the essay questions, see this article from the MIT EECS Communication Lab.