NEET at MIT
First-year students will be welcome to apply to this 3-year experiential learning program in Spring 2025.
The New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) is a 3-year experiential learning program at MIT. Explore, create, practice your passions, apply your knowledge, and prepare for your career in collaborative, interdisciplinary settings over the course of our immersive, cross-departmental undergraduate program.
Applications for Fall 2024 are now closed and will re-open for Fall 2025 in the first week of April 2025. Accepted first-year applicants begin the program in the first semester of their sophomore year.
NEET Offerings: Keys to Success
Built entirely around the new machines, materials, and systems driving modern industry, NEET offers a carefully designed curricular structure that empowers MIT students.
NEET Threads: Choose Your Path
NEET Threads weave together innovation and collaboration. NEET scholars earn a degree in the major of their choice and a NEET Certificate in one of four high-impact cross-departmental threads:
The Latest From NEET
Read about the NEET community's activities and accomplishments.
When MIT’s interdisciplinary NEET program is a perfect fit
December 17, 2024
Junior Katie Spivakovsky, NEET Living Machines scholar, describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) to biomedical research and beyond.
3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia
June 12, 2023
Anthropologists discuss the humanistic perspective they bring to a project, originally proposed by NEET Associate Director Michael Short, that is yielding promising results.
Uphill battles: Across the country in 75 days
August 22, 2024
NEET Living Machines scholar Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24 and the MIT Spokes have spent the summer spreading science, over 3,000 miles on two wheels. Spokes is an MIT-based nonprofit that each year sends students on a transcontinental bike ride. Aluru worked for months with seven fellow MIT students on logistics and planning.
Powering the future in Mongolia
June 12, 2023
MIT students from classes 22.S094 (NEET Climate and Sustainability Systems: Decarbonizing Ulaanbaatar at Scale) and 21A.S01 (Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale) visited Mongolia to conduct on-site surveys, diving into the diverse tapestry of local life as they gleaned insight from various stakeholder groups.
Edward Crawley: A career of education, service, and exploration
October 17, 2023
MIT professor Edward Crawley, NEET Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, reflects on five decades of impactful work in aerospace engineering and education, at the Institute and beyond.
From Industry to Academia: Aurora Employees Support MIT’s NEET Experiential Learning Program
April 13, 2023
Aurora Flight Sciences helps NEET students gain real-world insights and develop skills that will help them succeed in their future careers.
Arina Khotimsky '23 awarded 2023 Michel David-Weill Scholarship
June 12, 2023
Arina Khotimsky '23, NEET Climate + Sustainability Systems scholar, was selected for the 2023 Michel David-Weill scholarship for exemplifying excellence, leadership, multiculturalism, and high achievement.