Want to add Course 6 as a second major?
What you need to know:
Students interested in double majoring in 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, 6-7, or 6-14 should follow the instructions below.
Students interested in 6-9 (administered by the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) or 11-6 (administered by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning) should contact those departments.
Double majors in 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, and 6-14 programs are eligible to apply for the MEng program.
What you need to do:
- Review the Registrar’s Office website for detailed directions and information on becoming a double major.
- Review your application against the major requirements. Course 6 program requirements are available on the EECS website. Check that your plan is reasonable, being careful not to overload on courses each semester.
- Clearly label all course 6 requirements on your plan. You should identify which requirement the subject will meet in your program. The goal of the double major application plan is that you understand the requirements that are expected.
- Don’t list courses that you plan to petition for substitutions on the form. We will only endorse a form that doesn’t rely on petitions to be successful. Therefore, we need you to put the requirements on the form; not the substitutions you expect to submit and have approved. You can always petition and change plans after the petition is approved. You can submit petitions right after joining the major via your EECS audit and you can read more about petitions/substitutions here.
- If you hope/plan to MEng, make sure you enter only the undergraduate course numbers in the columns for both majors. Any subject listed on that double major form will complicate your MEng graduate unit count. You can change your plan later.
- After your first major advisor reviews/signs, the EECS Undergraduate Office can sign. Send to ug@eecs.mit.edu for review/signature.
- Submit your completed application to the Committee on Curricula (CoC) at curricula@mit.edu. The institute’s deadline is Add Date of your second-to-last term.
- To make changes to your double major, see the Registrar’s Office website.