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.
Fall Semester
- MIT Fall Career Fair, Friday, September 20, 2024
- 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) Thursday, September 19, 2024
- 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.
- Biological Engineering Career Expo, Friday, October 4,2024
- 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
- MIT Deep Tech Career Fair, Thursday, September 19, 2024
- 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
- Diversity Opportunities Fair (Harvard), 2024 Date 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.
- Data Analytics, Science, & Technology Fair (Harvard), 2024 Date 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
- DMSE Career Fair, 2024 Date 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.
- Humanities, Media, Marketing, & Creative Careers Expo (Harvard), 2024 Date 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: Open to all Harvard and MIT students
- Engineering Career Fair Collaborative, Friday, November 8, 2024, Sheraton Commander Hotel, 16 Garden St, Cambridge, MA
- 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
- MIT Partnership for the Salata Institute Climate and Sustainability Expo at Harvard. Friday, November 1, Harvard’s Gutman Conference Center- 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA
- 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,
Spring Semester
- Battlecode, 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Employers may sponsor teams
- Candidate Audience: All MIT students
- Harvard Biotech, Pharma, & Healthcare Expo: 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Employers in the Biotech, Healthcare and Pharma industries
- Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard University & MIT degree students. MIT students should bring their MIT ID to attend, advance registration is not required
- List of participating organizations, updated on a rolling basis
- Harvard Startup Career Fair:(Harvard), 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Startup organizations
- Candidate Audience: Open to all Harvard University & MIT degree students. MIT students should bring their MIT ID to attend, advance registration is not required
- List of participating organizations, updated on a rolling basis
- xFair, 2025 Date TBD
- 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
- The 2024 MIT Energy and Climate Career Fair, 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Energy and sustainability companies from across the industry
- Candidate Audience: MIT Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Spring Career Night, Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Employer Audience: Companies who are actively hiring for opportunities in 2024
- Candidate Audience: MIT undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, and recent alums
- Mechanical Engineering Career Expo 2024, 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Companies who are highly aligned with mechanical engineering
- Candidate Audience: Current MIT undergraduate students
- European Career Fair, 2025 Date TBD
- 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
- Graduate Career Consortium PhD & Master’s Virtual Career Expo, 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Companies looking to hire graduate students, postdocs and alumni from STEM, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Fields
- Candidate Audience: Open to all MIT graduate students, postdocs, and recent alumni
- MIT Data Science & Analytics Career Night, 2025 Date TBD
- Employer Audience: Data Science and Business Analytics companies
- Candidate Audience: All MIT Graduate Students
- MIT Biotech Group Career Fair, 2025 Date TBD
- 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, Tuesday, 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
- Ivy+ Just in Time Virtual Career Fair, Tuesday, April 11th, 1:00p,m- 4:00pm
- Employer Audience: Companies across industries currently hiring for jobs and internships
- Candidate Audience: Current students at Brown, UChicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale