| In the biology department, professors are required to teach at least one course every year, and undergraduates are encouraged to take graduate courses, so undergraduates could have any professor in the biology department if they were interested in doing so.
For example, I had Tyler Jacks (cancer god) in intro biology my freshman year, Susumu Tonegawa (Nobel Laureate) in a small graduate seminar during my sophomore year, Rudy Jaenisch (one of the top embryonic stem cell people in the world) in a small seminar my senior year, and others, of course. (The difficulty of doing an analysis like this is that the MIT bio department is somewhat small, but exceedingly high-quality, so basically all of the professors in the department are famous in the scientific world.) |