Discover resources, connect with mentors, dive deeper into MIT’s 7 professional development competencies, and find out about upcoming events and opportunities.
Graduate professional development is skills-based training complementary to your academic coursework that will augment any career path you decide to follow, within and beyond academe.
Individual Development Plans, or IDPs, are a key professional development tool used within both academia and industry to establish priorities, set goals, and track progress. You can create your own tailored Individual Development Plan to guide you in self-assessment, exploration, goal setting, implementation, recording milestones, and reflection.
By creating and using an IDP, you can optimize your PhD years by planning experiences that will help you build the competencies and skills you need not only to finish your degree but to keep rising throughout your career.
Flagship Programs
Graduate Students of Color Mentoring Circles
The Graduate Students of Color Mentoring Circlesconnect students with alumni who provide culturally relevant perspectives on academic and industry careers. The next program will run in Fall 2022. Interested graduate students, email Elsie Otero at eotero@mit.edu.
The Path of Professorship
This exceptional 3-day event for MIT graduate and post-doctoral women provides information about academic scientific careers and the application process.
MIT Alumni Advisors Hub
Think of the worldwide community of MIT alumni as a vast and renewable resource that you, as an MIT graduate student, are invited to tap and leverage. Using the Alumni Advisors Hub is one of the most powerful ways there is to augment your technical training. There’s no better source of information and wisdom to inform your journey than the scholars and professionals who have been where you are now, and gone on to discover, teach, influence, and lead with excellence in the world beyond the Infinite Corridor.
Resource Library
Ready to dive in? The Graduate Professional Development Resource Library is a curated collection of articles, web resources, podcasts, books, and more.
Many entities throughout MIT are invested in graduate student professional development. These essential partners fuel our programs and serve as excellent resources for graduate students.
Advising is critical to graduate student success. But there is still ambiguity in the literature on higher education and the various advising experiences that students have. Through this panel participants will learn about a new …
By Elsie Otero
Elsie OteroAssistant Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
Writing Together Online is back with an expanded choice of sessions to accommodate those who prefer to write early and those who need longer sessions. Join 90-min writing sessions, which create a community of scholars who connect, set realistic goals, …
By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda CornwallGraduate Student Professional Development
MIT’s Office of the Vice President for Finance provides online and in-person resources for foreign national students and postdocs at MIT for tax withholding, determination of tax treaty eligibility, and tax filing software. International students and postdocs may access:
Sprintax
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By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda CornwallGraduate Student Professional Development
Interested in non-academic career paths for humanities & social sciences PhDs? Watch the recording of the American Council of Learned Societies’ May 17 2022 panel discussion, “Beyond the Academy: Pathways to Non-Academic Careers for PhDs”: https://bit.ly/3wSW7lP
