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Registration requirements
Status of registration
| Retention of student status
| Medical report requirement | Credit
| Academic terms | Tuition and
fees
Once admitted (or readmitted) to an MIT advanced degree program,
a person becomes a student at the start of the term for which
he or she was admitted. The person retains regular student
status until graduation, unless the student withdraws, is
required to withdraw, or fails to complete registration in
a given term.
Each student is assigned to a departmental faculty member
who serves as the student's graduate registration officer.
The registration officer must approve the student's program
as well as any subsequent changes.
Status of registration
A status of registration report is available to every student
on WebSIS starting at the end of the first week of the term.
This report indicates the student's program as it stands in
the Registrar's Office.
The Institute holds each student fully responsible for checking
the accuracy of his or her initial registration and any subsequent
changes submitted to the Registrar's Office, for assuring
that the Registrar is provided with a correct term address,
and for carefully reviewing the status of registration report
on WebSIS to make sure that it accurately reflects his or
her registration. The student should take prompt steps to
eliminate any discrepancies. The student should keep copies
of the original registration form and all subsequent correction
forms as evidence of having followed these procedures.
Retention of student status
To retain student status for the fall and spring terms, a
student must complete pre-registration according to instructions
issued by the Registrar’s Office; pay all Institute charges,
or make satisfactory alternative arrangements with Student
Financial Services; and return registration forms approved
by the graduate registration officer and signed by the student
to the Registrar's Office by the deadline.
An individual who has not completed the above steps by the
sixth week of the term will no longer be considered a student.
Because the student has in effect withdrawn from the Institute,
such a person must apply for readmission through the Admissions
Office, the departmental graduate registration officer, and
the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education.
Medical report requirement
MIT requires that incoming students submit a completed Medical Report Form that includes a medical history as well as documentation of immunity to certain infectious diseases. Physical examinations are only required for those students who plan on participating in intercollegiate sports (varsity). Any student absent from MIT for one year or longer must submit this form again. Medical Report Forms need to be submitted before registration for classes. Specific deadlines for each term are listed on the form itself. More information on specific requirements, as well as the Medical Report Form and instructions for completion, may be found here.
Credit
Transfer credit In special cases, advanced subjects
completed satisfactorily elsewhere may be accepted for credit
toward requirements for an advanced degree (with a recorded
grade of "S" for subjects with exact MIT equivalents).
If the subject has no MIT equivalent, approved transfer credit
should be requested through a petition approved by the appropriate
departmental graduate registration officer.
The student's major department will determine to what extent
subjects taken as a special student are acceptable for credit
toward the requirements for an advanced degree. Credit received
as a special graduate student is considered with all other
academic information in reviewing the application and in formulating
a degree program.
Advanced standing examinations In certain departments,
regular graduate students may petition to take an examination
for advanced standing during the examination period in each
term, provided that they have never registered for or attended
classes at the Institute in that subject.
Notice of intention must be filed with the Registrar at least
three weeks before the day of the first scheduled examination
of the examination period. An advanced standing examination
shall be given only after approval by the department in which
the student is registered and approval by the member of the
faculty in charge of the subject. A passing grade entitles
a student to full credit for the subject and is recorded on
the permanent record; a failing grade also appears on the
permanent record. These grades are not included in the student’s
term or cumulative GPA.
Academic terms
Fall and spring terms Registration material for each
term is distributed to students by their departments. Students
must make certain that they meet the medical requirements
for registration.
A student who has not completed registration by the end of
the first week of the term will be assessed a late fee. A
petition is required to complete registration after the fifth
week of the term; a late fee will be assessed. An individual
who has not completed registration by the sixth week of the
term will be considered withdrawn.
Independent Activities Period Referred to as IAP,
this four week period in January, following fall term final
examinations, is when faculty members and students are freed
from the rigors of regularly scheduled classes for flexible
teaching and learning and for independent study and research.
Although students must register explicitly for courses offered
for academic credit during IAP, this period is not an official
term. Rather, it overlaps the regular fall term’s final
two weeks and the spring term’s initial two weeks. For
administrative convenience, spring term registration follows
IAP.
Students should follow directions published in the IAP
Guide regarding registration. All subjects giving
credit during IAP are to be graded following the grading system
approved for that subject number.
Summer term Many graduate students register in the
summer term in order to make more rapid progress toward their
degrees. Students who use the summer term to actively work
towards satisfying degree requirements must be registered.
Details of summer registration procedures may be obtained
from the departmental graduate registration officer, or the
Registrar's Office.
Tuition and fees
Refer to the Registrar’s Office for a schedule of fees,
for current and historical tuition tables,
and for specifics about tuition obligation.
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