International Office

The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

About CME

The Cambridge-MIT Exchange, now in its 10th year, allows Cambridge undergraduate students in their second or third years to study at MIT while MIT undergraduates spend a year at Cambridge. About 25 students currently participate in the exchange from each institution.

Application Procedure

Applicants must complete an on-line declaration form and submit a paper application form with brief curriculum vitae. The online form is available to download:

• CME Application Form
• CME Reference Form
• CME Declaration Form

Medical students must also complete a Clinical School application form. This also needs to be completed by your referee and handed in to your Senior Tutor with the main application form.

• Clinical School application form

All shortlisted MVST students will be required to attend an interview that will take place mid-March.

Interviews may also be required in some other subjects for short-listed candidates. These will take place prior to the end of the Lent Full Term.

Dates and Deadlines

About MIT

The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. MIT admitted its first students in 1865 and today is a world-class educational institution with nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It is organised into five schools that contain 27 academic departments.

Participating Cambridge Departments

At present nine departments are involved in the exchange:

• Biochemistry
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Economics
• Engineering
• Materials Science
• Mathematics
• Medicine (including Veterinary Medicine)
• Physics

Further information

Please see the CME website for further details of the exchange or email Caroline Yates cer48@cam.ac.uk.