Use the Graduate Student Activities tile in the Atlas App to track your progress onboarding at MIT.

Community members can use MIT Atlas to activate their digital MIT ID, access campus, find and reserve Zoom Rooms, register travel details, and get help from IS&T via 24/7 live chat.

All students will need to  download MIT Certificates to their computers in order to have  to access course websites, registration information, visa process and procedures for international students, housing information, and your student account with Student Financial Services, among other things.  

You should complete this step as soon as possible or you will not be able to access certain MIT sites.

You can also learn how to access MIT systems, two-factor authentication, email and email forwarding if you aren’t checking your MIT email regularly, back-ups so you never loose research, virus protection, VPN, software available to students, Google Workspace for MIT

As an MIT student, you have access to discounts on computer purchases through MIT's agreements with a handful of companies.  To access these discounts,  Visit MIT’s Information Services & Technology (IS&T) and select the “vendor’s online education store” link in the second paragraph to access student/educational discount links for Dell, Apple, and Lenovo. 

Students who wish to make extensive use of Excel modeling software, may want to consider purchasing a PC instead of a Mac. 

• iMIT International Student Services  / Information on visa process can be found here

Sylvia Hiestand / ISO Adviosr for MSRED Program

• The English Evaluation Test (EET) is offered in the last week of August

•  Required of  all new MIT grad students whose primary language of instruction from the age of six through high school was not English

  • This is true even if you have received an English Language Testing Waiver from the CRE.

When you arrive on campus, be sure to sign up for MIT Alerts for your phone and email.  This service automatically notifies you of any emergencies on campus (including snow days!)

Mind + Handbook
Official Guide to MIT'e expectations of your behavior as a student at MIT

Academic Integrity at MIT
MIT policies related to academic integrity 

All students are welcome to have  a profile on the Center for Real Estate Website.
If you wish to be included, please complete the following steps:

• Draft a brief biography (300  words or fewer)  by July 1. 

• Enter your bio information  here. 

• (You can see examples of student bios here)

• Upload your head shot in the form above

Participation is Optional but encouraged.

• Each year the CRE offers students the ability to purchase CRE-branded business cards through our contracted vendor.  Information about ordering will be shared during orientation.   More general information about business cards can be found here.