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 areas, each of which contains several research concentrations:

Management Science
Behavioral & Policy Sciences
- primary and/or secondary concentrations:
- Economic Sociology
- Institute for Work & Employment Research
- Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management
- Organization Studies
- secondary concentration only:
- Global Economics & Management
Economics, Finance & Accounting
- Finance
- Accounting & Control

Professor and Deputy Dean Steven Eppinger researches how to understand and improve complex development processes — such as those for automobiles, airplanes, and computer systems — and how to organize teams consisting of hundreds or thousands of people.