Learn from Leaders at MIT

Executives, managers, and practitioners worldwide come to courses offered by MIT Professional Education — Short Programs to gain crucial knowledge and take home applicable skills. Short Programs participants learn from MIT faculty who are leaders in their fields from biotechnology to energy to systems engineering. You can spend five days studying controlled-release drug delivery with the biomedical engineering professor who invented it. Or focus a week on learning about radar by building and testing your own imaging radar system. Additionally MIT Professional Education — Short Programs currently offers the following Professional Certificates for those who seek advancement in a specific area beyond the completion of individual courses: the Professional Certificate Program in Innovation and Technology and the Professional Certificate Program in Real Estate Finance and Development. Let MIT Professional Education — Short Programs help you take the lead in your organization.

Short Programs attendees come from across the U.S. and around the world. About 30 percent are international; another 20 percent come from New England states. Most are mid-career technical, scientific, business, and government professionals in their 20s through 50s and beyond who wish to advance their careers.

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