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MASc/SM Music Technology and Computation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Programme overview

Music Technology and Computation offers an SM (68 units of subjects plus a thesis) and a Master of Applied Science (92 units of subjects with a capstone project instead of a thesis).

Faculty: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences  |  Department: Music and Theater Arts  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

What you will study

A 24-unit shared core chosen from Interactive Music Systems (21M.585), Algorithms and Interactions for Human-AI Music Making (21M.586), Fundamentals of Music Processing (21M.587), Musical Acoustics, Synthesis and Audio Effects (21M.588) and Advanced Music Technology and Computation (21M.589), plus restricted electives, a colloquium and either a 24-unit thesis (SM) or a 6-unit capstone project (MASc).

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Application information

USD 66,720 a year (2026-27). Standard MIT graduate tuition for 2026-27, 9-month academic year ($33,360 per fall/spring term; the 12-month figure including the summer session is $89,775). Same rate for all graduate students; excludes the $420 fee, health insurance, housing and living Source

Graduate applications are made to individual departments, which run their own admissions processes and timelines; online applications open in early fall and most deadlines fall around the end of the fall semester.

Graduate deadlines vary by department; most departments use the unified portal at apply.mit.edu/apply and the Sloan School of Management uses its own portal at applymitsloan.mit.edu/apply. Fee waiver requests are due November 18 for programmes with a December 1 deadline, December 1 for deadlines of December 15-23, and December 15 for deadlines in January or later. Admission offers with funding are honoured until April 15.

Apply through the official page: https://oge.mit.edu/graduate-admissions/

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