As a graduate student, I found MIT to be a fine place to work. - Graduate Student Researcher MIT Employee Review

4.0
Jan 20, 2015
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Pros

Excellent health insurance/treatment at MIT medical, many opportunities for collaboration, good support from the department, generally friendly staff

Cons

Institute-wide bureaucracy is really difficult to deal with, and the financial services office is not very helpful

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Great research opportunities in EECS

Cons

Can be difficult to manage claszes

4.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

Cons

Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.

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