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
Calvin Jacinto Macatantan
Computer Science and Engineering major
Planning major
Applied International Studies minor
Mathematics minor
“Technical courses train me to formalize problems, specify constraints, and optimize under resource limits. Humanities, arts, and social science courses force me to interrogate assumptions embedded in those models.”
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.”
Will Roberts
Aerospace Engineering major
Political Science major
“Studying Political Science, I have most enjoyed the notable relevance it has to the world around us. I found it fascinating that the political decisions which affect everyone’s day-to-day lives can be studied, greater understood, and in true MIT fashion, even quantified through the field.”
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.
