Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

At MIT, students and faculty from different fields work together in a variety of collaborative programs that extend beyond departmental or school boundaries. The following programs offer a number of interdisciplinary graduate degrees:

• Computation for Design and Optimization
• Computational and Systems Biology
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Computer Science and Molecular Biology
• Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
• History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society
• Integrated Design and Management
• Joint Program with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Leaders for Global Operations
• Microbiology
• Operations Research
• Polymers and Soft Matter
• Social and Engineering Systems
• Statistics
• Supply Chain Management
• System Design and Management
• Technology and Policy
• Transportation

Several programs of study offer students from participating departments opportunities to focus on a particular area of interdisciplinary research as part of their home department’s degree program:

• Biophysics
• Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Interdisciplinary Graduate Degrees

Computation for Design and Optimization

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Computation for Design and Optimization 1

Computational and Systems Biology (CSB)

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD	Computational and Systems Biology 1

Computational Science and Engineering

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD, ScD	Computational Science and Engineering 1

Computer Science and Molecular Biology (Course 6-7)

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
MEng	Computer Science and Molecular Biology 1

Design and Management (Integrated Design and Management & System Design and Management)

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Engineering and Management 1

Health Sciences and Technology (HST)

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Health Sciences and Technology
MD	Medical Sciences (degree from Harvard Medical School)
ScD, PhD	Health Sciences and Technology
ScD, PhD	Health Sciences and Technology—Bioastronautics
ScD, PhD	Health Sciences and Technology—Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics
ScD, PhD	Health Sciences and Technology—Medical Engineering and Medical Physics

History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society 

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD	History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society

Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Oceanographic Engineering 2
ScD, PhD	Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
ScD, PhD	Biological Oceanography
ScD, PhD	Chemical Oceanography
ScD, PhD	Marine Geology and Geophysics
ScD, PhD	Physical Oceanography

Leaders for Global Operations

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM/MBA	Engineering/Management 1

Microbiology

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD	Microbiology 1

Operations Research

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Operations Research 1
PhD	Operations Research 1

Polymers and Soft Matter

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD, ScD	Polymers and Soft Matter 1

Statistics

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
PhD	Aeronautics and Astronautics and Statistics
PhD	Economics and Statistics
PhD	Mathematics and Statistics
PhD	Political Science and Statistics
PhD	Social and Engineering Systems and Statistics

Supply Chain Management

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
MASc	Supply Chain Management1
MEng	Supply Chain Management 1

Technology and Policy

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Technology and Policy

Transportation

Degrees Offered

Degree	Program
SM	Transportation 1
PhD, ScD	Transportation 1

2	With the exception of engineering, the SM is only available as an interim degree for doctoral candidates or for those who leave the program before the completion of the doctoral degree.