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Departmental Student Groups

While many student groups exist that are centered around hobbies, interests, or cultures, there are an increasing number of departmental student groups that exist to support the students in the departments they represent. These groups not only bring together their constituents in social settings, they can act as vehicles to advocate on behalf of their student constituencies on the departmental level. The GSC also hopes to draw our representative base in part or directly from these departmental groups, as they are in the best position to understand the needs of their students on the departmental level.

If you are interested in creating a student group for your department, you should contact the GSC Officers at . A listing of current departmental student groups as well as those being formed is given below. For ASA recognition, new Departmental Student Groups are expected to demonstrate that they are truly representative of their respective constituency, and the GSC can help you as you work to develop a mission and structure to meet your students' needs.

If you are a member of a departmental graduate student group that does not currently have a webpage, we encourage you to create one. In order to assist with this, we have created a basic template for a departmental student group webpage that you can use.

Listing of Departmental Student Groups
Department Name of Group Contact Information
Academic Department Student Groups
Aeronautics and Astronautics Graduate Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics website
Architecture Architecture Student Council website
Biological Engineering Division BE Graduate Students Association website
Biology Association of Biology Graduate Students ??
Brain and Cognitive Science Brain and Cognitive Sciences Society ??
Chemical Engineering GSC X website
Chemistry Chemistry Graduate Student Committee website
Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Association website
Comparative Media Studies n/a ??
Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science EAPS Graduate Student Advisory Council website
Economics Graduate Economics Association website
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECS Graduate Students Association website
Graduate Women in Course 6 website
Health Sciences and Technology HST Joint Council ??
Linguistics and Philosophy n/a ??
Management Sloan Senate website
Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Materials Council website
Mathematics n/a ??
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers website
Media Arts and Sciences MAS Graduate Student Committee website
Nuclear Engineering American Nuclear Society website
Ocean Engineering 13 Seas website
Physics Physics Graduate Student Council ??
MIT Graduate Women in Physics website
Political Science n/a ??
Science, Technology, and Society n/a ??
Urban Studies and Planning DUSP Student Council website
Cross-departmental Academic Program Groups
Center for Real Estate n/a n/a
Center for Transportation and Logistics n/a n/a
Operations Research n/a n/a
MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute MIT-WHOI Student Organization website
System Design and Management n/a n/a
Leaders for Manufacturing n/a n/a
Technology and Policy Program Technology and Policy Student Society website