Undergraduate Programs

Minor in Management

MIT Sloan offers a Minor in Management for students in other majors interested in key management disciplines. The minor consists of six subjects (four required subjects and two electives) that students take in their junior and/or senior years. Introduced in the fall of 2005, the minor is open to 100 students each year.

Current students in the minor and graduates of the program have indicated that the minor offers a way for students to broaden their exposure to business without committing to a full major. The required subjects and recommended electives provide a path that many have found helpful in selecting courses at MIT Sloan.

Participants in the minor have noted its value in providing management skills that can be useful while at MIT as well as after graduation. In addition, it offers a practical taste of real life after MIT.

We are happy to announce that we received fewer than 100 applications for the minor this spring, and so we did not need to run a lottery. All of the eligible students who applied for the program were accepted. We will continue to accept eligible applicants into the minor until we reach our limit of 100 or until Registration Day of the fall term, whichever comes first. Students who join the program after April 27 will not have MIT Sloan priority for bidding for Fall 2007 subjects.

For detailed information about the curriculum and enrollment, please see the Student Guide. You may also download the Application.

Students in the minor answer frequently asked questions:

How will the minor in management broaden my exposure to business?

It's been immensely helpful, and I really enjoyed it. The speakers are a real plus. Anyone who goes into industry or even academia can benefit from it.
- Alexander Chernyakov, SB 2006

Any well-rounded individual, especially an MIT alum, should take these courses and know these things, like a basic understanding of management and finance. Things like microeconomics and marketing will touch everyone. Engineering or other MIT majors will gain so much from exposure to these fields.
- Michael Beregovsky, SB 2006

How will I know which MIT Sloan courses to take?

I was planning on taking classes in [MIT] Sloan anyway, but the minor set up a good plan of which classes to take and coordinated who I would be taking them with. I probably would have gone for the finance-heavy stuff which is more similar to what I'm doing now at work (real estate finance). I'm glad that the minor guided me towards marketing and entrepreneurship which I might not have found otherwise.
- Ben Cooper, SB 2006

The undergrad minor gave me direction as to what classes I needed to take to be able to function in an organization and understand how organizations work.
- Alexander Chernyakov, SB 2006

What specific skills can I acquire through the minor in management?

It helps with working in teams. Provides some of the softer skills that are not generally taught to undergraduates. It's been useful in areas like team conflict, leadership: knowing when to step in and when not to.
- Alexander Chernyakov, SB 2006

This is one way you can graduate with management skills.
- Michael Beregovsky, SB 2006

People and Organizations is pretty valuable. I've made mistakes politically that I could have avoided.
- Christine Winiarz, SB 2007

[People and Organizations] Course 15.668 is applicable in grad school — and applicable now. Aero/Astro has team-based projects. It's been useful in knowing how to keep a group going. Recognizing what could cause a split so you don't have a disaster is extremely useful.
- Noelle Steber, SB 2008

How will the management minor help me in life after MIT?

There's a level of professionalism at [MIT] Sloan, even in how the students dress ... You don't necessarily notice or value that as undergraduates, but it's important in business.
- Christine Winiarz, SB 2007

The minor gave me access to essential knowledge for entering a business environment — knowledge that it's rare for undergraduates to have access to, and yet it's essential to their success right out of college.
- Alexander Chernyakov, SB 2006

[MIT] Sloan is an interesting place. It gives something different to people oriented to science ... It helps people see where MIT fits in the real world. We need to recognize our place in the bigger world.
- Noelle Steber, SB 2008