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<p>And I’m saying that I was not the one who first started talking about EECS master’s degree level admissions specificially. </p>
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<p>Yeah, see, it’s the 2006 figure that I want to have the data for.</p>
<p>I also didn’t want to raise this point before, but I’ll do it now. Those external admissions figures are, I think, somewhat misleading because they don’t count the * internal * admissions - namely, those people who are already part of another graduate program at MIT and either decide to pick up an additional master’s degree in another program (in EECS or something else) or just decide to switch graduate programs entirely. I seem to recall that Peregrine “Pepper” White, the author of the autobiographical expose ‘The Idea Factory’, did exactly that. He was admitted into the Technology and Policy Program (TPP) as a master’s student. But he never actually got his TPP master’s. Infinite Connection shows that he ended up getting his master’s in Mechanical Engineering. </p>
<p>{The book chronicles the troubling he had as a MIT graduate student, and he ended up failing his PhD qualification exams (in mechanical engineering). Personally, I suspect that the main reason why he found it so heinously difficult was that he decided not to complete the master’s degree program that brought him into MIT, but rather decided to complete an entirely different master’s degree. I’m sure that he was well-suited for TPP, but perhaps not so for mechanical engineering. But he did manage to complete that master’s in ME.}</p>
<p>Plenty of people don’t switch programs outright the way that White did, but rather decide to get an additional master’s. In fact, dual-master’s are not uncommon at MIT. I know a number of current TPP students who are picking up a ‘side’ master’s in one of the engineering disciplines. The Engineering Systems Division master’s program also has a number of dual-students. The Systems Design and Management Program (SDM) also has some. I know a guy who got dual master’s in SDM and in Aero/Astro. </p>
<p><a href=“Technology and Policy Program - MIT's graduate program for scientists and engineers interested in policy work”>Technology and Policy Program - MIT's graduate program for scientists and engineers interested in policy work;
<a href=“http://esd.mit.edu/academic/ms_faqs.html#simultaneously[/url]”>http://esd.mit.edu/academic/ms_faqs.html#simultaneously</a></p>
<p>To complete these dual master’s programs, you have to successfully complete an internal application to that 2nd program. I don’t know what the stats are for that, but I strongly suspect it is easier to get in to a program through the internal method than the ‘normal’ external way, although I would love to see stats for it. Of all of the dual guys that I know (and I know a lot), practically all of them believe that they would probably not have gotten admitted to their 2nd program if they had tried to apply to it the normal way. </p>
<p>But in answer to the OP’s question, of how to get admission to the master’s degree program in EE, one way to do it is to get admitted to some other MIT graduate program and then switch over or get a dual degree.</p>