Overview

About the program

Contemporary electronically mediated platforms for market-level and individual exchange combine complex human decisions with intensive computation and data processing, all operating within an engineered economic environment. Examples include: online markets, crowdsourcing platforms, spectrum auctions, financial platforms, crypto currencies, and large scale matching/allocation systems such as kidney exchange and public school choice systems. These platforms encompass a growing slice of economic activity and are shifting the scope and efficiency of market and non-market exchanges.

Some forms of exchange that were simply infeasible due to coordination or information frictions (centralized kidney exchange, vehicle sharing) are suddenly available and important. Other market activities that were previously thought to require centralization and oversight, can now be decentralized and self-regulated (crypto-currency being the leading example), and the technology beneath that decentralization (so-called blockchain) will have many further critical applications.

This emerging sphere of technological and economic activity draws expertise from three academic disciplines: computer science, economics, and data science, disciplines studied in the Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science program of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Computer science supplies the procedures and algorithms on which these technologies operate. Data science structures, parses, and interprets the vast set of informational inputs and outputs that move through these platforms. Economics guides the design of platforms, predicts and interprets their emergent properties, and sets the incentives faced by market actors to generate desirable outcomes (e.g., efficiency, transparency, incentive compatibility, public goods provision).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Linear Algebra

Computer Science Programming in Python

Microeconomics

Statistical Methods in Economics

Machine Learning

Algorithms

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-03 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-04 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

180 alternative credits

180-186 MIT units

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Economics Computer Sciences Data Science & Big Data View 1556 other Bachelors in Economics in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Essay

Two letters of recommendation

Secondary School Report (SSR), including high school transcript

For non-native English speakers, we strongly recommend providing the results of an English proficiency exam if you have been using English for fewer than 5 years or do not speak English at home or in school, so that we may consider that information alongside the rest of your application

We do not have cut off or recommended scores for the ACT or SAT as scores are evaluated within an applicant’s context

Tuition Fee

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International

61990 USD/year

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Based on the tuition of 61990 USD per year during 48 months.
National

61990 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 61990 USD per year during 48 months.
In-State

61990 USD/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 61990 USD per year during 48 months.

Living costs for Cambridge

1814 - 3756 USD /month

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