Principal Investigator Chanh Q Phan
Project Website http://mitsloan.mit.edu/academic/msms/
The Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS) Program at MIT Sloan School of Management offers talented students from around the world the opportunity to enhance their expertise in a chosen management concentration. This rigorous program accepts top MBA or equivalent master’s degree students from non-U.S. business schools to study a specific field in depth while working alongside world-renowned MIT Sloan faculty and students. The end result is a Master of Science degree from MIT in two semesters.
Participants in this program are able to customize their educational experience based on their academic and professional interests. Students enroll in either MIT Sloan elective classes or in electives offered in other MIT departments. Students may also cross register for electives at Harvard University. Carefully selected courses help students focus as they write their theses and foster career goals. Students may receive professional development services from the MIT Sloan Career Development Office to develop the industry knowledge and skills to compete in today’s competitive job market. Upon graduation, students join the ranks of 120,000+ MIT and 20,000+ MIT Sloan alumni who serve as effective resources for each other and for MIT.
The MSMS program is one of the cutting-edge global initiatives offered at MIT Sloan to help shape and improve the future of principled management practice. Proposed initially by a request from a partner school* to allow visiting students an opportunity to earn a master’s degree from MIT, MIT Sloan created the MSMS program to meet the needs of a select group of top international MBA students who wished to do advanced research in a specific area of management.
In September 2009, the program welcomed the first class of students from SKK-GSB, Tsinghua University, and HEC Paris. These pioneering students demonstrated that their international MBA training equipped them to handle the rigors of the MSMS Program. In the second year of operation, the program has diversified the student population by admitting students from non-partner schools.