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Programs

  • PhD programs: 5
  • Master’s programs: 4
  • Undergraduate major programs: 20
  • Undergraduate minor programs: 30

Facuty awards and honors

  • Nobel Laureates: 10
  • Pulitzer Prize winners: 5
  • Endowed chairs: 90
  • MacVicar Fellows: 95
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Meet our team

Our small team of giving professionals is based out of the Dean’s Office. There are many ways to give to SHASS; we welcome any inquiries about supporting the school.

Anne Marie Michel

Assistant Dean for Development

Megan Hinckley

Leadership Giving Officer

Britta Bell

Development Officer

Brittney Joy Francisco

Development Assistant

Content Rows: Declaring a major

Disciplinary majors

To declare a major in an academic unit, follow the steps to declaring a major on the 
Registrar’s webpage.

Interdisciplinary majors

To declare an interdisciplinary major, take the following steps:

  • Email that field’s faculty advisor to discuss your interest. If you need help identifying the advisor, contact the SHASS academic administrator.
  • Fill out the Interdisciplinary Major Proposal Form, listing the subjects to include in your major program proposal.
  • After obtaining the faculty advisor’s approval on the proposal form, email it to the SHASS academic administrator. Then, follow the instructions to declaring a major on the Registrar’s webpage.

Anthropology

 

  • Class of 1957 Career Dev Chair

    Hector Beltran

  • Dean’s Distinguished Professor

    Christine Walley

  • Elting E. Morison Chair

    Stefan Elmreich

  • Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor

    Susan Silbey

  • William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair

    Heather Paxson

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Alumni Class Funds

FacultyTeaching StaffNon-academic Staff
This funding is intended as seed money for new, “high risk” initiatives that encourage creative curriculum and teaching changes, improve the quality of teaching, and enrich the learning experience.
Applications open Fall 2024
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D’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in MIT Education

Faculty
This fund provides grants to faculty in support of educational initiatives to develop the undergraduate curriculum. Funding reflects the vision and priorities of the Office of the Vice Chancellor, who oversees the initiative.
Applications open Summer 2024
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Council for the Arts at MIT

FacultyTeaching StaffNon-academic Staff
The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) is made up of alumni and friends of the arts at MIT who support arts engagement at MIT. CAMIT funds grant programs to support arts projects among the MIT community.
Check site for details
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Open Access Publishing from MIT Library: Journals

FacultyTeaching Staff
The fund is intended as a last resort for reimbursement of processing fees for articles authored by MIT faculty, research scientists, and postdocs, and accepted for publication in eligible open-access, peer-reviewed journals.
Apply year round
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Frequently asked questions

Economics

Our top-ranked PhD program sets the standard for graduate economics training across the country. Graduate students work closely with our world-class faculty to develop their own research and prepare to make impactful contributions to the field.

Our doctoral program enrolls 20-24 full-time students each year and students complete their degree in five to six years. Students undertake core coursework in microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, and econometrics, and are expected to complete two major and two minor fields in economics. Beyond the classroom, doctoral students work in close collaboration with faculty to develop their research capabilities, gaining hands-on experience in both theoretical and empirical projects.

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Post Cards: Nobel

The following faculty and former faculty of the Department of Economics have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

For a list of MIT Nobel Laureates in all fields, visit Institutional Research. In addition to the faculty listed here, Robert J. Schiller, an alumni of MIT economics, became a Nobel Laureate in 2013.

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