Excellent place to learn, grow, and collaborate - PhD Graduate Student MIT Employee Review

5.0
Dec 17, 2025
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Pros

MIT has a wealth of resources for graduate students to pursue cutting-edge research and tons of extracurricular groups to help you explore interests.

Cons

The winter months are long and dark and the hours in lab can be long, so make sure to set your boundaries and stand by them.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Amazing work environment, supportive colleagues, good benefits.

Cons

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4.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

High quality core facilities and well resourced labs. Countless brilliant colleagues who can serve as mentors and collaborators

Cons

Students and Postdocs are expensive due to high overhead, so unreasonably high productivity is often expected compared to other institutions. PIs are typically stretched very thin. Most departments/labs are very space limited which makes it harder to do safe and productive research.

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