PhD Program

Coursework

PhD students fulfill their coursework and methodology requirements by taking advantage of the more than 150 subjects offered at MIT Sloan — in addition to hundreds more offered across MIT. Students may also cross-register at any of several Harvard University graduate schools.

PhD program curriculum at MIT Sloan is organized into three broad categories, each of which contains several areas of major concentration:

• Management Science
  • Information Technologies
  • Marketing
  • Operations Management
  • System Dynamics
• Behavioral & Policy Sciences
  • primary and/or secondary concentrations:
  • Economic Sociology Program
  • Institute for Work & Employment Research
  • Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Organization Studies
  • secondary concentrations only:
  • Global Economics and Management Group
  • Strategic Management
• Economics, Finance & Accounting
  • Financial Economics
  • Accounting & Control