Graduate students in the MIT School of Engineering are a vital force for research and innovation, and fellowship funds to attract and support the most outstanding of these students are a vital need.

There is good news: MIT continues to attract the top minds, despite increasingly stiff competition from both academic institutions and industry. But the larger trend away from graduate education is troubling, threatening to erode both the academy and our broader society.

Today’s graduate students, particularly at the doctoral level, typically find themselves having to choose between a very expensive education and a lucrative job opportunity. Graduate education has never been harder to pay for, or easier to forego.

In response, MIT is committed to a revolutionary re-imagining of graduate education, and to bringing about a sea change in the financing of graduate education. Both endowed and expendable funds are needed.

For information on how to support graduate students in the School of Engineering, please contact Deborah J. Cohen, the School's senior director of development and communications, at (617) 253-2222. To make an online gift to any of our DDLCPs, please use the secure MIT giving form.