distance
The SDM distance-learning option is a 24-month program—MIT’s first graduate-degree program offered primarily at a distance.
Designed to blend the best of a traditional on-campus experience with an innovative distance education, SDM’s distance-learning option offers geographically dispersed students a thoughtful, comprehensive, career-and-family-compatible graduate program. The program maintains the integrity, high academic standards and individual engagement of MIT's traditional in-residence programs.
The on-campus components for SDM distance students include:
- One semester in residence at MIT (an Institute requirement)
- One month on campus for the January session, which is required of all incoming SDM students
- Six one-week seminars held on campus around the middle of each term
Students participate in live, interactive classes via videoconferencing with on-campus counterparts. The unique benefits of this distance-learning approach include:
- Professionals can pursue a graduate-level education that’s compatible with career and family obligations by obtaining most instruction at their worksites
- Students can immediately apply material learned in class to the challenges facing their organizations
- Students have the opportunity to work in globally dispersed teams using state-of-the-art distance education technologies; this enables them to learn from classmates in a wide range of industries, while experiencing firsthand how to maximize new technologies and transfer that knowledge throughout an organization
How do I participate in distance classes?
