Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange

Cambridge Students at MIT
About MIT
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Cambridge Students at MIT


The Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME), now in its seventh year, allows Cambridge students in their third year to study at MIT while MIT undergraduates spend a year at Cambridge. CME was initially formed by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), a strategic alliance established in July 2000 between MIT and the University of Cambridge. Twenty-five students from nine of the ten eligible Cambridge departments are studying at MIT during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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About MIT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted its first students in 1865. This event marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable, believing that professional competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by focusing attention on real-world problems.

Today, MIT is one of the world’s outstanding universities. Education and research – with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle – continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent and privately endowed. It is organized into five schools that contain 26 academic departments as well as many interdepartmental programs, laboratories, and centers whose work extends beyond traditional departmental boundaries. There are more than 900 members of the faculty and nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Click here for more background information on MIT.

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Costs

The programme is intended to be "fee neutral" as far as possible and thus minimize additional costs to you. You will pay your usual University of Cambridge tuition fees even though you are physically at MIT; this arrangement includes Overseas and Island students. Overseas and Island students, and those UK/EU students who are not certified as eligible for fee support, are also responsible for paying for Cambridge College fees (other than tuition).

The fees you should expect to pay at MIT are:

• Housing: costs vary but are generally higher than at Cambridge
• Food: costs vary depending on whether you eat on-campus or off
• Health insurance: The MIT Extended Care medical plan is $1,440 for the year (the summer months are reimbursable)
• Textbooks: MIT students normally buy textbooks and notes for most subjects, and they tend to be expensive. If you know what textbooks you need before you leave, you may want to purchase your books from a UK high street retailer or an online bookseller such as amazon.co.uk (Helpful advice about purchasing textbooks is provided in the PDF file Cambridge Students' Guide to MIT)

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