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MIT doctorate without a bachelors degree - Robson - 08-17-2024
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/skip-college-and-go-to-graduate-school-with-new-mit-program.html
"There’s an opportunity to skip an expensive four years and still go to grad school at one of the nation’s most competitive universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Students can do so through the MITx MicroMasters, which has no degree requirements — not undergraduate or even high school — for students to sign up.
Passing students in the MicroMasters Data, Economics and Development (DED) policy program are then eligible to apply for a master’s program on campus at MIT."
The above article came out in 2017. That year, a high school student completed the course and proceeded to go onto a Masters and (later) PhD program at MIT — without a bachelor's degree!
https://fredric.mit.edu/
Two interesting points: First, the DEDP MicroMasters works on a need-based financial aid pricing model. Second, after transfer credits, the MIT MAS DEDP only requires one semester of in-person coursework at MIT.
Other MicroMasters
The MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science also helps for admissions to the MIT PhD in Social and Engineering Systems. According to the program FAQs, in lieu of "previous, substantial coursework in statistics and data science at the undergraduate or graduate level", applicants can use the MicroMasters to fulfil quantitative prerequisites as well as PhD-level coursework. However, the PhD still needs a prior degree; the SDS MicroMasters doesn't allow for direct entry.
The SDS MicroMasters also fulfils 1/4 of the coursework requirements for the online Northwestern Master of Science in Data Science.
The Finance MicroMasters waives the summer term for the MIT Sloan Finance MS, and a number of other MBA/MSc Finance programs. Programs in Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing are also available. A bunch of the program partners provide credit exemptions for their online masters degrees as well, including SNHU and Purdue.
I'm wondering which of the program partners also allow for direct entry without a bachelors. Potentially, someone could do an SDS MicroMasters, get entry into an accelerated 6-month masters program, and then gain admission to the PhD program with another 6 months worth of coursework exemptions! That means saving 1 year of graduate coursework and another 4 years or so of undergrad.
RE: MIT doctorate without a bachelors degree - bjcheung77 - 08-17-2024
Oh yeah, I remember reading about someone able to do just that, MIT MicroMasters and then a real MIT Masters right afterwards, straight out of high school too I think... That was a few years ago, it could be the same person, don't remember who it was though and didn't bother doing a search either...
RE: MIT doctorate without a bachelors degree - ss20ts - 08-17-2024
The person who went this route wasn't your average high school student. He also isn't American so his academic life was far different than ours. He's definitely working his tail off.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredric-kong/