PhD Management (MIT Sloan) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Programme overview

The MIT Sloan PhD is fully funded for current students in good academic standing and targets an entering class of 19. Dissertations are usually completed within two to three years of passing the General Examinations.

Faculty: MIT Sloan School of Management | Department: Behavioral and Policy Sciences; Finance and Accounting; Management Science | Study mode: full-time | Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

What you will study

Coursework from 150+ Sloan subjects, a master's thesis in the second or third year earning an SM in Management Research, written and oral General Examinations, and a dissertation with public defence. Research areas: Economic Sociology, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Organization Studies, Technological Innovation Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, System Dynamics.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Department-level graduate admission text (applies to the department's graduate programmes): Applications are welcome from college graduates in all areas of concentration—the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. Please see the individual program websites for specific entrance requirements and more information.

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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