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About MISTI/Boilerplate

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MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s hub for global experiences. MISTI’s experiential learning programs provide students and faculty with unparalleled immersive international experiences that bring MIT’s one-of-a-kind education model to life in countries around the world. 

  • Global Internships provide real-world work experience through fully funded professional and research placements in more than 40 countries worldwide. 
  • Global Teaching Labs gives MIT students the chance to learn to navigate and communicate in other cultures while teaching STEM-focused courses to high school students.
  • Global Startup Labs fosters entrepreneurship and builds student skills by placing them in universities to lead courses in areas like app development and AI. 
  • Study Abroad immersion programs offer hands-on learning and intellectual growth, while students earn transfer credits at universities around the world. 

MISTI experiences, most fully funded, are carefully designed to complement on-campus coursework and research. Rigorous, country-specific preparation ensures that students build durable cultural connections while abroad and empowers them to play a role in addressing important global challenges. Students come away from their experiences with invaluable perspectives that inform their education, career, and worldview.

MISTI embodies MIT’s commitment to global engagement and prepares students to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.

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MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s hub for global experiences. MISTI’s unparalleled internship, research, teaching, and study abroad programs offer students unique experiences that bring MIT’s one-of-a-kind education model to life in countries around the world. MISTI programs are carefully designed to complement on-campus coursework and research, and rigorous, country-specific preparation enables students and faculty to forge cultural connections and play a role in addressing important global challenges while abroad. Students come away from their experiences with invaluable perspectives that inform their education, career, and worldview. MISTI embodies MIT’s commitment to global engagement and prepares students to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world.

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MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s hub for global experiences, providing immersive international programs that bring MIT’s one-of-a-kind learning model to life in countries around the world. MISTI empowers students and faculty to build cultural connections, make an impact in the world, and gain valuable perspectives that inform their education, career, and worldview.