For Students

Current Undergraduate Students
For complete information about undergraduate programs, including first-year subjects, major and minor degree requirements, senior thesis, and UROP (MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), please refer to Department of Physics:

• FAQs
• Contact Academic Administrator
• Astronomy Minor

Current Graduate Students
For complete information about graduate programs, please refer to the Department of Physics.
Here are quick links to:

• Orientation for incoming graduate students
• Orientation FAQs
• Current Student FAQs
• ODGE (Office of the Dean for Graduate Education)
• Doctoral Guidelines
• General Exams
• Housing
• Faculty Research
• Graduate Student Activities
• Fiscal Procedures
• Physics Graduate Thesis
• Thesis Submission Guidelines
• Contact Academic Administrator
• Tell MKI Your Thesis Defense Date!
• Schedule Marlar Lounge for your Thesis Defense

Related Degree Programs
MIT Kavli Institute is an interdisciplinary research center and hosts the research of graduate students from different departments.  Admission to these graduate programs is through these departments.  Most of our students are in the Physics degree program, but students come from others departments, including:

• Earth and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
• Aeronautics/Astronautics
• Mechanical Engineering

Research Fellowships

• External - Graduate Fellowships
• Internal - The Kavli Graduate Fellowship is awarded through an internal process to a graduate student whose research is in the MIT Kavli Institute, and who is affiliated with an MKI faculty member.

Photo by Christopher Harting 2012