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Tuition Assistance Plan Overview

If you are an eligible employee, MIT provides a tuition assistance plan to help you obtain, maintain, or improve the skills necessary to develop your career at MIT by providing financial assistance for qualified courses of study.

You may be able to use the Plan to enhance your on-the-job skills or to expand your career opportunities here at MIT. Go to Step Two: Does my course qualify?
Tuition assistance is available for all levels of study, from GED to graduate level.
You may be able to take a course for credit and a grade at MIT as a Special Student (a non-degree candidate).
You may have a part of your first course prepaid by MIT after you have been employed for at least four months (college courses only).
You may be able to receive tuition assistance for career counseling/coaching sessions. Go to Career Counseling/Coaching Guidelines.

Amount of Reimbursement

Courses Taken at Schools Other Than MIT	MIT Special Student Courses
$5,250 for full-time employees per plan year (the calendar year) for eligible courses (prorated for part-time employees)	100% of the cost of one course per term (prorated for part-time employees)

You may not be reimbursed for both MIT and non-MIT courses taken during the same term. The amount you are reimbursed for the MIT course does not count toward the $5,250 limit.

Deadlines for filing Special Student applications are August 1 for the fall term, January 1 for the spring term, and May 1 for the summer term. For information regarding application procedures, please contact Emily Sheldon in the Office of Admissions at esheldon@mit.edu.

If the Office of Admissions has accepted you to take a course at MIT (for credit and a grade) as a Special Student and you wish to use the Tuition Assistance Plan, please read the document Procedure for Taking a Course at MIT as a Special Student.

According to the IRS, employees who take graduate-level courses as a Special Student at MIT (or such courses along with graduate-level courses at another institution) and receive employer-provided tuition assistance in excess of $5,250 during a calendar year are subject to taxation on the amount above $5,250. The $5,250 limit applies to graduate Special Student courses at MIT whether or not the courses are job-related.

First Step:
Find out if you are eligible for Tuition Assistance in Step 1.

This web site offers information on the MIT Tuition Assistance Plan in an easy-to-use format. For complete, detailed plan rules, refer to the Tuition Assistance Summary Plan Description (SPD). If there is any conflict between this web site's information and the SPD, the SPD will govern.