MIT of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world famous private research university, which has produced many Nobel Prize winners, Fields Prize winners and Turing Prize winners. 2021QS ranked first in the world university, USNews ranked second in the world university, Times Higher Education ranked second in the world university reputation... MIT has won many honors, so I will not list them with my classmates here; Corresponding to the high reputation, the strong discipline field of the university is engineering, especially engineering and computer science. Today, we are going to introduce MIT's professional direction of interaction.

MIT's engineering field includes MIT CSAIL, MIT Lincoln Lab and Massachusetts Institute of Technology The MIT Media Lab is an academic leader in engineering science and technology.

Among them, MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research room that gathers art, science, design and technology. It is known as the "black science and technology laboratory" that is at the forefront of social invention. Many high-tech innovations are born in this laboratory, such as the electronic ink technology of the Kindle. Natural Light is lucky to have a long-term cooperation relationship with MIT Media Lab.

MIT Interactive Professional Direction

Curriculum

MIT's professional direction of interaction mainly includes the following two aspects:

　　-Integrated Design&Management（IDM）

　　-The Program in Media Arts&Sciences

　　@Media Lab

Official website of IDM course

The IDM course is an interdisciplinary design project combining design, engineering and management methods. The course is taught by professional professors in the industry to provide in-depth guidance on product development, product design and other processes; Every semester, successful entrepreneurs, designers and engineers will give lectures to share. recommend: How about MIT's major in art and science?

The core courses are taught in ID Lab, and the course themes generally revolve around 3D hardware products, software, or web-based products to provide solutions that are conducive to human and social needs, especially the poverty challenges faced by the world in recent years.

Let's take a look at the curriculum in the Media Lab project. The project includes many graduate majors related to art and science. At present, there are 30 courses and about 400 interdisciplinary research projects. This paper discusses the engineering, science, arts and other aspects that will be involved in human-computer interaction.

Due to the nature of science and engineering of MIT, the curriculum will focus more on the application of science; The courses offered are mostly research on the basis and theory of media technology.

MIT Media Lab-Affective Computing

For example, the Effective Computing course team is a course that studies how to use new technologies to help people better communicate, understand and respond to emotional information. The topics and topics of the research are very cutting-edge, directly targeting the current human development needs and other issues.

MIT Media Lab-Affective Computing

From tools for learning and expression, to innovative equipment for adapting and enhancing human beings, to new modes of transportation in smart cities, and so on. Each project is very different from the traditional disciplines, and students can have a wider range of research directions here.

Application requirements

The overall admission rate of MIT19 was about 6.61%, which was low and maintained its consistent strict standards. For interaction majors, take the admission plan of Media Lab as an example. The total number of candidates for this master's degree is 50. There were only two Chinese graduate students enrolled last year, so we can imagine the great competitive pressure.

MIT official website data

The reason for the low admission rate is that MIT has high application requirements. In addition to the mandatory standardized score of 7 IELTS and 94 TOEFL, it also attaches great importance to the applicant's academic background, practical background and other comprehensive strength. 985/211, internship experience in large factories, etc. can be said to be the most basic background requirements.

Friendly, MIT Media Lab does not require GRE scores.

Language requirements for official website

In terms of collection of works, because it is a science and engineering college, the MIT official website does not set too many restrictions on the collection of works, but it does not mean that the collection of works is unimportant. In other words, no requirements are the highest requirements.

In terms of documents, in addition to the three necessary letters of recommendation, personal statement PS needs to be emphasized here. On the one hand, MIT examines the applicant's background and ability in the professional field, on the other hand, it also reviews the sincerity of the applicant, such as whether the applicant is familiar enough with the research direction of the professors in the interaction specialty, and the degree of matching with the professors is also within the scope of investigation.

Finally, the enrollment time of MIT is shown in the figure below. Students must prepare as soon as possible!

Enrollment arrangement on MIT official website

Although MIT's application is indeed very difficult, and the admission rate has declined year by year, every year, domestic students can receive its olive branch. Students do a good job in background improvement and other work, and have the opportunity to become one of thousands of students. The opportunities are won by themselves!

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