Sloan Student Culture
MIT Sloan is a diverse and engaged community. With students, faculty, and staff from around the world, the School prides itself on welcoming people with a wide range of backgrounds, experience, and interests. The community is marked by its passion for solving problems and tackling big challenges, its respect for varied viewpoints, and its entrepreneurial spirit. The student culture is highly collaborative and is perhaps best characterized in the slogan, "Sloanies helping Sloanies."
OneSloan
Students at MIT Sloan have the opportunity to forge strong connections, not only with colleagues in their own academic programs, but also with those in other Sloan programs and across MIT.
Embracing Diversity
The MIT Sloan student community is diverse not only in terms of nationality, race, and ethnicity, but also in terms of intellectual perspective and life experience. This affords the opportunity to extend the learning experience, both inside the classroom and in the larger social and professional community.
"What I love most about Sloan is the incredible people. Every day, I am inspired by my classmates—their diverse backgrounds, unique passions, and the wealth of knowledge they bring to our conversations. Learning from them has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my time here, and I am constantly motivated by their drive to create meaningful impact in the world." MBA Student, '25
MIT Sloan Values
The Sloan Values image provides a framework for members of the community to hold themselves and each other accountable. Beyond that, invoking "Sloan Values" is a shorthand way to invite thoughtful and respectful behavior in the community.
A hallmark of MIT Sloan's student culture is a spirit of collaboration and caring. Students tend to strive to meet audacious goals rather than compete with one another. Similarly, the faculty and staff are deeply committed to supporting each student's success and well-being. One student remarked, “The kindness of everyone here is truly unmatched—whether it’s a student offering help on a challenging assignment, a staff member going the extra mile to make us feel supported, or a professor taking time to genuinely engage with our questions. Sloan feels like a place where people don’t just excel individually but also lift each other up." Sloan Fellows MBA Student, '25