MIT EECS Only Focuses On EE. Agree or Not?

shravas
Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:51:18 +0000

There are more fine distinctions than just being a EECS grad - like iceui2 said, there’s three different tracks in EECS itself, each one with a different focus on CS. There’s also 18C which has a greater math requirement and mostly required CS courses from the EECS department, and 6-7 which is similar, but with biology. So it’s not as if all EECS students spend exactly half their time on EE and half on CS; in fact, that’s not true for the majority of people in EECS.

This is even more true for the PhD program. It is very possible to graduate with a PhD from MIT in EECS, and not know any EE. Honestly, I think you’re reading too much into the fact that at MIT, EE and CS are in the same department. There’s a lot of variation in what you can do, since it’s so broad.