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The Media Lab is a community of designers, researchers, and inventors who work together as members of research teams, doing things that conventional wisdom says cant or shouldn't be done. The approximately 400 projects underway at the Lab are as varied as the students who conduct them: from tools for learning and expression, to innovative devices for human adaptation and augmentation, to new modes of transportation for tomorrow's smart cities. Students come to the Media Lab through the Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS), based within MIT's School of Architecture Planning. Each year, the program accepts approximately 50 master's and PhD candidates with backgrounds ranging from computer science to psychology, architecture to neuroscience, mechanical engineering to material science, and more.
MAS offers approximately 30 graduate courses and several undergraduate subjects. Media Lab courses explore several themes, including, for example, human-computer interaction, communications, learning, design, and entrepreneurship.
To be admitted as a regular graduate student, an applicant must have earned a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from a college, university, or technical school of acceptable standing. Students in their final year of undergraduate study may be admitted on the condition that their bachelor’s degree is awarded before they enroll at MIT.
The minimum score required for the IELTS is 7.0. TOEFL exam scores are not accepted.
Waiver of IELTS may be available.