Comparative Media Studies

Program Overview

Comparative Media Studies studies contemporary media (film, television, games, social media and digital interactive forms) and teaches students to think across them by creating and producing media themselves. How competitive: for fall 2025, MIT admitted 4.6% of its 29,281 first-year applicants; it publishes no separate figure for international applicants. It sets no IB minimum and requires no particular subjects: it reads your school record with your IB results, predicted grades included, and requires the SAT or ACT. You apply to MIT, not to this major: every first-year student starts undeclared and chooses a major at the end of the first year.