Annual Career Fairs at MIT

Throughout the academic year, MIT hosts and collaborates on over a dozen career fairs and large recruiting events. The array of career fairs are designed to provide a wide range of opportunities for students to connect with different industries, explore careers, and apply to internships, jobs and research opportunities. Below is a sampling of typical career fairs held at MIT or open to the MIT community.

Spring Semester

  • Battlecode, Saturday, February 1, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Employers may sponsor teams
    • Candidate Audience: All MIT students
  • Harvard Biotech, Pharma, & Healthcare Expo: Friday, January 31, 2025
    • Employer Audience: The Biotech, Pharma, & Healthcare Fair will bring undergraduates, master’s, and PhD students as well as postdocs together with employers to discuss opportunities in the life sciences sector, including in pharmaceutical, healthcare, and biotechnology fields.
      This event is hosted by the Harvard FAS Mignone Center for Career Success in partnership with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Harvard Medical School
      *Student Eligibility: Open to all Harvard University & MIT degree students (including postdocs)
      * MIT Candidates are encouraged to register for the event in Handshake.
      * A survey link is available in the Handshake event description. If you complete the survey by 5 PM on Tuesday, January 28, you will not need to show your MIT ID at the entrance. Completing the survey helps expedite entry.
      *If the survey is not completed, you must present your MIT ID at the entrance.
      * Even if you register and complete the survey, please bring your MIT ID to the event.
      *List of participating organizations, updated on a rolling basis
  • Harvard Startup Career Fair:(Harvard), Friday, February 14, 2025 from 1:00-4:00pm
    • Employer Audience: Startup organizations
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard University & MIT degree students. MIT students must bring their MIT ID to attend, no advance registration required
    • This event is hosted by Harvard FAS Mignone Center for Career Success, Harvard Innovation Labs, and Harvard Business School Career & Professional Development.
      *Student Eligibility: Open to all Harvard University & MIT degree students
      *MIT students must bring their MIT ID to attend, no advance registration required
      *List of participating organizations, updated on a rolling basis
  • xFair, Thursday, February 6, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Companies using cutting edge technologies, who are willing to bring demos, prototypes and interactive displays and are hiring for opportunities in 2024
    • Candidate Audience: MIT Undergraduate and Graduate Students

  • Spring Career Night, Thursday, February 27, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Companies who are actively hiring for opportunities in 2025
    • Candidate Audience: MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and recent alums & Harvard University students (must bring Harvard ID for check in)
  • European Career Fair, Saturday, March 1, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Europe based companies
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all MIT students, postdocs, and alums interested in career opportunities in Europe, as well as candidates from other colleges and universities

  • MIT Biotech Group Career Fair, Wednesday, March 19, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Companies in biotech, biopharma, medtech, consulting, IP/Law and VC/Finance industries
    • Candidate Audience: Open to MIT and Harvard juniors, seniors, graduate students, PhDs, Postdocs, and recent alumni

  • MIT Sloan Career Fair, Wednesday, April 9, 11:00am – 2:00pm
    • Employer Audience: Companies seeking master’s degree candidates from Sloan portfolio of programs, for full-time and internship opportunities
    • Candidate audience: Current MIT Sloan master’s students

Fall Semester

  • MIT Fall Career Fair, Friday, September 19, 2025
    • Employer Audience: Fair is open to employers from a wide range of industries, who are offering diverse opportunities.
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all MIT undergraduate, graduate, MBA, PhD, Postdocs and recent alumni. Harvard students are also welcome to attend.
  • EECS Career Fair (by invite only for EECS Alliance members) TBD
    • Employer Audience: If an employer wishes to participate, they need to be a member of the EECS Alliance.
    • Candidate Audience: Open to students who are enrolled in course 6 or those who have appointments with the EECS department.
  • MIT Deep Tech Career Fair, TBD
    • Employer Audience: Member companies of the MIT. nano Consortium, Microsystems Industrial Group, and Quantum Science & Engineering Consortium and MIT AI Hardware Program Members
    • Candidate Audience: All MIT students, postdocs, researchers, and alumni
  • Data Analytics, Science, & Technology Fair (Harvard) TBD
    • Employer Audience: Open to employers in data analytics, software engineering, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, UX/UI design, physical and life sciences, technology, and other STEM fields.
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard and MIT students
  • Biological Engineering Career Expo, TBD
    • Employer Audience: Employers in life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and scientific research
    • Candidate Audience: Open to students (undergraduate and graduate) in Biological Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, and related majors, as well as those undeclared students interested in a major or career in biological engineering
  • DMSE Career Fair, Thursday, TBD
    • Employer Audience: Employers from energy, electronics, health care and transportation industries who are seeking materials science and engineering expertise
    • Candidate Audience: Undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs.
  • Diversity Opportunities Fair (Harvard), TBD
    • Employer Audience: Open to employers that offer job and internship programs, including for underrepresented undergraduate and graduate student populations.
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard and MIT students.
  • Humanities, Media, Marketing, & Creative Careers Expo TBD
    • Employer Audience: Employers in the arts, advertising, marketing, humanities, public relations, brand management, retail, fashion, social media/digital strategy, publishing, writing, journalism, museums, media, entertainment, sports, design, and more creative fields.
    • Candidate Audience: All Harvard students and alumni, as well as current MIT students.
    • MIT Departments that are collaborating on this event are Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. EAPS, Sloan Climate Sustainability, Climate Education, CAPD,
    • Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard and MIT students
  •  MIT Partnership for the Salata Institute Climate and Sustainability Expo TBD
    • Employer Audience: Employers focused on  focused on climate, sustainability, and the environment 
    • Candidate Audience: All Harvard students and alumni, as well as current MIT students.
    • MIT Departments that are collaborating on this event are Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. EAPS, Sloan Climate Sustainability, Climate Education, CAPD
  • Mechanical Engineering Career Expo, TBD
    • Employer Audience: Companies who are highly aligned with mechanical engineering
    • Candidate Audience: Current MIT undergraduate students
  • Engineering Career Fair Collaborative, TBD
    • Employer Audience: Companies in innovative fields including robotics, energy, medical devices, transportation, and design
    • Candidate Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate engineering students from Harvard University, Boston University, Olin College, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University