Academics

An MIT Sloan education is about excelling at theory and practice. It's about taking advantage of the opportunities and the support the School gives you to go out and make a positive impact on the world. It's about marrying passion and principle.

With this in mind, sustainability-related courses at MIT Sloan utilize an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, bringing together expertise in energy, infrastructure, entrepreneurship, management and other key areas. Professors strive to show students the world, help them identify what can be improved, and lead them to develop solutions. In addition, many of the sustainability courses provide the students the opportunity to work with companies, nonprofit organizations, and government institutions on their actual projects and programs. For instance, in the MIT Sloan Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) course, teams of MIT students work with host organizations on specific sustainability projects. Past projects have provided high value to the host organizations in developing new tools or approaches, structuring new strategies for organizational sustainability, and assessing market opportunities.