Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.67
Liaison Julie Newman
Submission Date Sept. 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.06 / 8.00 MIT Office of Sustainability
Director
Office of Sustainability
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Has the institution adopted one or more sustainability learning outcomes that apply to the entire student body or, at minimum, to the institution's predominant student body?:
No

Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
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A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
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Total number of graduates from degree programs:
3,679

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
486

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:

The figure was calculated in two steps. First, the list of degrees awarded during the 2018-2019 academic year (here: https://registrar.mit.edu/stats-reports/degrees-awarded/2018-2019) was reviewed to determine which programs required an understanding of the concept of sustainability. Second, the total number of graduates from each these sustainability-related programs was summed to create the final figure. For more information about these programs, see the links provided in the documentation below.

The numbers of graduates from each of the programs during the 2018-2019 academic year were:

- Building Technology (2)
- Planning (8)
- Urban Studies and Planning (93)
- Advanced Manufacturing and Design (12)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (64)
- Environmental Engineering Science (1)
- Material Science and Engineering (82)
- Mechanical and Ocean Engineering (4)
- Nuclear Science and Engineering (40)
- Supply Chain Management (77)
- Technology and Policy (38)
- Transportation (32)
- Atmospheric Science (5)
- Climate Science (2)
- Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (5)
- Jointly awarded with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (21)


A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
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Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
13.21

Website URL where information about the sustainability learning outcomes is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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