Master of Science [M.S] [Computation for Design and Optimization] From Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic Eligibility:

• The students must have a bachelor’s degree(3 or 4 years) in any of the respective fields to apply for this program.
• The average GPA of the students in this program is 3.9.
• Students can apply with any bachelor’s degree but majority of the students come from these fields like Computer Science, Economics, Engineering (variety), Finance, Management, Math, Operations Research, Statistics…, etc.

Work Experience:

• Work experience is not required but many of the students have an average experience of 15 months.

Language Requirments:

• The students whose official language is not English are required to write IELTS or TOEFL exams before applying.
• The TOEFL cut-off for this program is 90 out of 120.
• The IELTS cut-off will be decided by the university department.

Language Requirement Exemption:

• Students who have received instruction in English in their primary and secondary schools and students who have been in the United States for four years or longer and have received a degree from an American institution.

Exam Requirments:

• The students must compulsorily have to submit the scores of any one of the exams like GMAT or GRE.

• MIT recommends that applicants interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council if available. Council members are MIT graduates who have volunteered to interview on behalf of the Office of Admissions. 

Career opportunities are:

• IT consultant. 
• Cybersecurity consultant.
• Information systems manager. 
• Database administrator.
• Multimedia programmer.
• Systems analyst.
• Games developer.
• Technical writer.