For Prospective Students
I came to MIT for engineering, and found art.
At MIT, the arts are widely practiced, performed, and celebrated—in corridors and classrooms, on stage and in the studio. We welcome students of all artistic talents and abilities, and provide opportunities for learning and participation at all levels.
At MIT you can learn how to compose music, blow glass, write poetry, work on a potter's wheel, design a theater set, make a hologram, dance the tango, make a film, play an African drum.
You can perform with one of MIT's 50 music, theater and dance groups, including the acclaimed MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, the MIT Concert Choir, Chorallaries (one of nine a cappella groups at MIT), MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika, MIT Dramashop, Roadkill Buffet (improv comedy), Dance Troupe and the MIT Ballroom Dance Team.
You can publish your short stories and photographs, write and stage a play, choreograph a dance, mount your own art exhibition, form a chamber music ensemble...and much, much more!
The Arts at MIT
Register for "MyMIT" and receive up-to-date info on your specific arts interests
Music FAQs for incoming students
Watch "Discover the Arts at MIT" (9 minutes)
Request an arts@mit viewbook
MIT Admissions
Office of the Arts Student and
Artist-in-Residence Programs |
