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MD Medical Sciences (HST MD Program) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Programme overview

The HST MD programme is designed to take four years, extendable to five with a year of full-time research, typically after the second year of the MD curriculum. About half of current students majored in biological sciences and half in physical sciences.

Faculty: School of Engineering / Harvard Medical School  |  Department: Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology  |  Duration: Four years; may be extended to five with a year of full-time research  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

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Application information

Entry requirements

No formal academic prerequisites are listed for the programme.

Requirements published at program group level.

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. 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. Funding offers are honoured until April 15.

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

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