MIT-South Asia | India

• GPA 4.0 or higher
• No language requirement

Undergraduate prerequisites:

One class on South Asian politics, culture, history, or business. A full list of acceptable academic courses is below:

• 17.53 - The Rise of Asia
• 1.813J/11.466/15.657/IDS.437J - Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development
• 2.651/EC.711 - Introduction to Energy in Global Development
• 2.75J/2.750J/6.025J/6.525J/HST.552J - Medical Device Design
• 2.76/2.760 - Global Engineering
• 3.008 - Humanistic Co-design of Assistive Technology in the Developing World
• 4.002/15.001/16.652/STS.100 - The Future: Global Challenges and Questions
• 4.236J/11.463J - Structuring Low-Income Housing Projects in Developing Countries
• 4.622/4.623 - Islamic Gardens and Geographies
• 6.884 - Telemedicine and Telehealth for Enhancing Global Health
• 11.005 - Introduction to International Development
• 11.140/11.480 - Urbanization and Development
• 11.167/14.47/15.219/17.399 - Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy
• 11.474 - D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
• 11.491/17.176J - Economic Development and Policy Analysis
• 11.493 - Property and Land Use Law for Planners
• 11.S940 - Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice
• 11.S945 - Emerging Patterns in Urban India
• 12.348/15.026 - Global Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy
• 14.73 - The Challenge of World Poverty
• 14.74 - Foundations of Development Policy
• 15.017 - Engineering, Economics and Regulation for Energy Access in Developing Countries
• 15.218 - Global Economic Challenges and Opportunities
• 15.225 - Economy and Business in Modern China and India
• 15.227/15.229 - Seminar in International Management
• 15.233 - Global Health Lab
• 15.375/MAS.665 /EC.731J - Development Ventures
• 15.779/15.78 - Technology, Design and Entrepreneurship: Operating in Emerging Communities
• 17.524 - State, Society, and Political Behavior in Developing Countries
• 17.581 - Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions
• 21A.308 - Global Mental Health
• 21A.329 - Practicum in Global Health and Development
• 21A.410 - Environmental Struggles
• 21A.801J/21A.839K/EC.702J/EC.792K/STS.071J/STS.481J - Cross Cultural Investigations: Technology & Development
• 21G.011 - Topics in Indian Popular Culture
• 21G.019 - Communicating Across Cultures
• 21G.022J/21L.048J/WGS.141J - International Women's Voices
• 21G.040 - A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
• 21H.009 - World History and Its Fault Lines Since 1800
• 21H.157 - Modern South Asia
• 21H.357 - South Asian Migrations 
• 21H.358/21H.958 - Colonialism in South Asia and Africa: Race, Gender, Resistance
• 21H.S04 MIT South Asian Oral History
• 21L.020J/WGS.145J - Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between
• 21M.291 - Music of India
• 21W.788/CMS.334 - South Asian America: Transnational Media, Culture, and History
• EC.718/EC.798 - D-Lab: Gender and Development
• EC.722 - D-Lab: Prosthetics for the Developing World
• MAS.534J/HST.928J/MAS.S62 - Engineering Health: Understanding and Designing Affordable Health Diagnostics
• SP257 - MISTI Career Connections: Energy
• STS.023/WGS.226 - Science, Gender and Social Inequality in the Developing World
• STS.025J - Making the Modern World: The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
• WGS.101 - Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
• WGS.109 - Women and Global Activism in Media and Politics
• WGS.221 - Women in the Developing World
• WGS.226J/STS.023 - Science, Caste and Gender in India

There are no prerequisites for graduate students.

Early Deadline - December 1

Rolling Deadline - February 1

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