Admissions
Undergraduate Admissions
EAPS undergraduate students explore complex and fascinating natural
systems in an academic environment that is both small and friendly.
Together with world-class faculty, students delve into a challenging
area of study—the interaction of the solid earth, atmosphere,
hydrosphere, and biosphere that create our environment—spanning
vast scales of space and time.
The undergraduate admissions process is handled through MIT’s
Admissions Office. For additional information on applying to EAPS,
see MIT’s
Undergraduate Admissions website.
If you would like to include the EAPS Department in a campus visit,
please contact the EAPS Education Office.
We would be glad to meet with you and answer any questions about our
program.
EAPS participates in Terrascope, a Freshman Learning Community
by offering 12.000 Solving Complex Problems, Mission 2011 during the Fall semester. The theme changes each year, so check out not only this year's topic, but also the archive of wesites from previous years.
Preparation
Study of the geophysical sciences in EAPS requires a curiosity about
the natural world and an interest in questions that involve large
spatial scales and long time scales. We recommend strong high school
preparation in physics and mathematics; biology and chemistry may
also be important, depending on your interests.
The EAPS major
At the end of your first year at MIT, you will choose a major. An
advisor from the department you choose will then help guide you
with subsequent decisions, including course selection.
For students interested in meteorology, we recommend the Physics of
Atmospheres and Oceans track at EAPS. Although MIT does not offer
a meteorology major, this EAPS track provides the necessary mathematics
and physics background, courses that examine climate over time, and
the opportunity to study interactions between the ocean and atmosphere.
