Maintaining Your Address Information

Certain address information appears in the MIT online and printed directories and can be withheld from the directories at your request.
 

Term Address

If you live off-campus, including a fraternity, sorority, or independent living group, you must provide your term address on WebSIS and update it immediately if it changes.

If you live in a MIT residence or dorm your term address and phone will be automatically maintained on WebSIS by the Housing Office, via their billing system.

For a family of two students in family housing, the Housing Office maintains address information only for the student being billed. The other student must provide his or her term address on WebSIS.

If you move out of a MIT residence or dorm your term address from Housing will remain on WebSIS until you are no longer being billed. Once the dorm address is removed, you should go into WebSIS and provide your off-campus address. Until billing has ended, you may provide an off-campus term address in the Temporary Address field.

See Graduate Housing for detailed information on graduate and family housing or email graduatehousing@mit.edu.

See Undergraduate Housing for information on undergraduate residences or email residence@mit.edu.
 

Home Address

Your home address on WebSIS comes from Admissions and is the home address you provided when you applied to MIT.

It is your responsibility to review your home address on WebSIS and update it if it is not accurate.
 

SEVIS Addresses

SEVIS U.S. Address: This address is where you physically live during your time at MIT and in the U.S. This address will be reported directly to the U.S. Government via SEVIS (Student Exchange Visitor Information System) to fulfill your address reporting requirements. All international students are required to report new changes of address on WebSIS within 10 days of a move. No P.O. Boxes allowed. (This address could be the same address as your “Term Address” on WebSIS.)

SEVIS International Address: This address is your permanent international home address. This address is required by the U.S. Government and will be reported to the government via SEVIS (Student Exchange Visitor Information System.) The government expects that all international students have a home address that is outside the U.S. (This address could be the same address as your “Parents/Home Address” on WebSIS.)