Academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are organized into 6 divisions containing 32 academic departments or faculties along with many interdisciplinary, affiliated, and intercollegiate research and degree programs. The Schools of Engineering, Science, Sloan School of Management, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Architecture and Urban Planning, and the Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology.[1]
The School of Science is composed of 6 academic departments and grants S.B., S.M., and the Ph.D. or Sc.D degrees. The current Dean of Engineering is Professor Marc A. Kastner. With approximately 300 faculty members, 1200 graduate students, 1000 undergraduate majors, the school is the second largest at MIT. 16 faculty members and 16 alumni of the school have won Nobel Prizes.[2]
The Department of Biology (Course VII) began as a department of natural history in 1871.
The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course IX) began as the Department of Psychology in 1964.[3]
The Department of Chemistry (Course V) was one of the original departments when MIT opened in 1865.[4]
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Course XII) was formed from the 1983 merger of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, the former tracing its origins back to the first geology courses taught at MIT in 1865.[5]
The Department of Mathematics (Course XVIII)
The Department of Physics (Course VIII)
The MIT School of Engineering is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Generally considered having one of the best engineering programs in the world [1][2][3], the school has 8 academic departments and 1 interdisciplinary division and grants S.B., M.Eng, S.M., an engineer's degree, and the Ph.D. or Sc.D degrees. The current Dean of Engineering is Professor Subra Suresh. The school is the largest at MIT as measured by undergraduate and graduate enrollments and faculty members.[6]
The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course XVI) was founded as a program within the Mechanical Engineering department in 1926 and became an independent department in 1939.
The Department of Biological Engineering (Course XX) was founded as a division in 1998 and became an independent department in 2005.
The Department of Chemical Engineering (Course X) was founded as a combined course of mechanical engineering and industrial chemistry in 1888 and became an independent department in 1920.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course I) offered classes in civil engineering since MIT's 1865 opening and was subject to repeated mergers with the departments of sanitary engineering and structural engineering before adopting its current name and organization in 1992.
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course VI) is the largest department in the School of Engineering. Electrical engineering was originally taught within the Department of Physics, but a new degree program was offered in 1882, and the department became independent in 1902.[7]
The Engineering Systems Division is an interdisciplinary division within the School of Engineering drawing on faculty from various engineering departments, as well as the Schools of Management and Science.
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Course III) can be traced back to a Department of Geology and Mining established at MIT's 1865 opening which later grew to encompass mining and metallurgy until the modern name was adopted in 1974.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering (Course II) was one of the original MIT departments. In 2004, the department adsorbed the Department of Ocean Engineering (Course XIII) which is now the Center for Ocean Engineering.
The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course XXII) was established in 1958, making it one of the oldest programs of its kind in the nation.
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has 13 departments, department-level programs, and faculties granting the S.B., S.M., and the Ph.D. degrees. The current Dean of SHASS is Professor Deborah Fitzgerald. With approximately 160 faculty members, 300 graduate students, and 130 undergraduate majors, the school is the fourth largest at MIT. 2 Nobel Laureates, 8 MacArthur Fellows, and 3 Pulitzer Prize winners are on the faculty.[8]
The Anthropology program
The Comparative Media Studies program
The Foreign Languages and Literatures program
The History faculty
The Literature faculty
The Music and Theater Arts section
The Department of Political Science
The Science, Technology, and Society program
The Women and Gender Studies program
The Writing and Humanistic Studies program
The School of Architecture and Planning consists of 2 departments and grants the S.B., S.M., and the Ph.D. degrees. The current Dean of Architecture and Planning is Professor Adèle Naudé Santos.[9]
The Department of Architecture
The Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)
Founded in 1933, DUSP has four specialization areas: City Design and Development; Environmental Policy; Housing, Community and Economic Development; and the International Development Group. There are also three cross-cutting areas of study: Transportation Planning and Policy, Urban Information Systems (UIS) and Regional Planning.
DUSP offers a two-year Master in City Planning (MCP) degree and a PhD in Urban and Regional Studies or Urban and Regional Planning. Under special circumstances, admission may be granted to candidates seeking a one-year Master of Science (SM) degree. DUSP also offerr a Bachelor of Science (SB) in Planning, a five-year SB/MCP, and minors in Public Policy and in Urban Studies and Planning.
The Sloan School of Management has one department (Management) and grants the S.B., S.M., and Ph.D.
The Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology grants several degrees.