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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
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The MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing is a highly selective, one-year master’s program. Our students include recent undergraduates who are brand new to science communication as well as working professionals from a broad spectrum of science, engineering, journalism, arts, and humanities fields.

Our program is designed to give students hands-on experience producing professional-quality, science-driven pieces in print, audio, video, and interactive formats. During their year at MIT, our students create news and long-form features, short documentaries, investigative assignments, data visualization projects, radio and podcast stories, archival pieces, and a 6,000-word thesis that requires them to dive deep into an area of science, technology, engineering, or medicine. Our students also take electives in their areas of interest, spend 12 hours in two laboratories or research centers at MIT, and complete one or two internships within a newspaper, popular magazine or science website, television or radio station, digital production studio, academic institution, research facility, or museum anywhere across the globe.

The GPSW is led by working science journalists, authors, editors, and documentary film producers. Our faculty have written best-selling books and won accolades including the National Book Award, the Peabody Award, the National Association of Science Writers “Science in Society” Award, and the American Institute of Physics’ Andrew Gemant Award. Our alumni have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards, and Emmys; publish groundbreaking books; and land staff positions at organizations including Atlas Obscura, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Broad Institute, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, CalMatters, Chemical & Engineering News, the Earthwatch Institute, Gastropod, Harvard Medical School, IEEE Spectrum,  Inside Climate News, Grist, National Geographic, the National Institutes of Health, NPR, NASA, The New York Times, New Scientist, NOVA, NYU Langone Health, Oxford University Press, PBS, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, ProPublica, Scientific AmericanScience NewsThe ScientistSky & Telescope, Smithsonian Magazine, STAT News, Undark MagazineThe Verge, The Wall Street JournalThe Washington Post, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Yale University Press, and many more.