MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Programme overview

Civil and Environmental Engineering is an MIT graduate degree. The degree chart lists 90 total units.

Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Duration: 9 months | Study mode: full-time | Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

What you will study

Required and listed subjects include Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows and Wind Energy; Global Change Science; Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control; Physics and Engineering of Renewable Energy Systems; Modeling with Machine Learning: from Algorithms to Applications and Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems Restricted Elective.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Department-level graduate admission text (applies to the department's graduate programmes): CEE seeks a diverse group of applicants from a range of academic disciplines who will work together to contribute to exciting intellectual networks across the department and Institute. Applicants whose first language is not English are required to submit scores from either the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the preferred exam, or the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Email the department or visit the CEE website to learn more about individual graduate programs.

USD 66,720 a year (2026-2027). Institute-wide graduate tuition for a 9-month academic year (12-month rate is $89,775); excludes fees, insurance, housing and other costs. 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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