Learn from Leaders at MIT

Executives, managers, and practitioners worldwide come to courses offered by MIT Professional Education - Short Programs to gain crucial knowledge and take home applicable skills. Short Programs students learn from MIT faculty who are leaders in their fields from applied nanotechnology to energy to transportation systems. You can spend five days studying controlled-release drug delivery with the biomedical engineering professor who invented it. Or focus a week on cryptography or network coding with pioneers in the field. Let MIT Professional Education - Short Programs help you take the lead in your organization.

Short Programs attendees come from across the U.S. and around the world. About 30 percent are international; another 20 percent come from New England states. Most are mid-career technical, scientific, business, and government professionals in their 20s through 50s who wish to advance their careers.

Check the list of courses by topic or courses by date to see what is coming up or download a PDF brochure of all of our short courses for this year.

Download the 2009 Course Schedule

New short courses for 2009 include topics in energy, computing / networks / communications, supply chain, and systems engineering. Download PDF brochure