Students
Announcements
Two SHASS students named Rhodes Scholars
Thirty-six outstanding MIT students selected as Burchard Scholars
Three from MIT named 2024-25 Goldwater Scholars
Undergraduate students
Senior spotlight
Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences major
Spanish language minor
“My range of experiences across the humanities and physical sciences has allowed me to see where I can make the greatest impact on the world around me.”
Alayo Oloko
Mechanical Engineering major
Theater Arts major
“I regularly collaborate with people with very different skill sets than me to create one cohesive final product.”
Sam Salwan
Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science major
Political Science major
Mathematics minor
“MIT’s breadth of education has given me both technical depth and human context that will be invaluable for my work in development economics. Technical courses equipped me with rigorous analytical tools, while humanities and social sciences taught me to ask ‘why’ and ‘for whom’ these tools should be deployed.”
Meet our graduate students
SHASS has five doctoral and five master’s degree programs. View directories of our graduate students.
‘It’s been a journey’
Class of ’24 advanced degree graduates from across SHASS talk about their experiences and what’s next.
