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PhD Microbiology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Programme overview

Microbiology is an MIT doctoral programme (PhD) offered through the Microbiology Program. The degree chart lists 408-480 total units.

Department: Microbiology Program  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

What you will study

Required and listed subjects include Methods and Problems in Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Evolution; Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data and Quantitative Measurements and Modeling of Biological Systems; Principles of Biochemical Analysis; Fundamentals of Chemical Biology Research Rotations.

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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. 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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