Students
Announcements
MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 70 graduating seniors
Thirty-six outstanding MIT students selected as Burchard Scholars
Undergraduate students
Senior spotlight
Lauren Higgins
Political Science major
Urban Planning major
“Political science and urban planning are both interdisciplinary to their cores, and my coursework has consisted of a mix of law, statistics, economics, sociology, history, philosophy, and social psychology. Such a breadth of understanding has helped me think more profoundly about the social issues facing us today, and the steps we can take to start solving them.”
Olivia Honeycutt
Computation and Cognition major
Linguistics major
“As someone who plans to build a career in nuanced scientific solutions to social problems, practicing linguistics equipped me with the skillset needed to approach a problem with excitement about the potential for progress and understanding rather than frustration at its apparent complexity.”
Clay Lewis
Music major
Computer Science minor
“Studying computer science has both enhanced the way I approach music creation and given me more ways to express myself. Music can be as much about problem solving as computer science is and learning to break a problem down and approach it methodically has been an invaluable part of my toolset as a composer.”
Meet our graduate students
SHASS has five doctoral and five master’s degree programs. View directories of our graduate students.
‘There’s a wonderful research environment with amazing colleagues’
Class of ’26 advanced degree graduates from across SHASS talk about their experiences and what’s next.
