Community: Students

Student Life

Student life in the LFM program is different. Starting with the first day of classes the emphasis is on building relationships and learning from your classmates. Most days during the summer include classes and then group work in core teams. These team experiences allow students to reflect on the roles they play within a team and give them opportunities to experience many different team roles. It also is a valuable learning laboratory for thinking about team dynamics.

For many of the incoming students, the summer is a first opportunity to experience Boston. On a regular basis students explore the city together: Red Sox games, happy hours, and dinners at great restaurants. The social aspect of the summer creates many close friendships.

After spending three months getting close to LFM classmates, in the fall there's a new opportunity meet people in the MBA and engineering classes. Each student participates on many teams for the fall MBA core classes and engineering classes. Helping to balance all of these teams along the way is the LFM support network. Because the LFMs are spread out over many different teams and classes, they all meet others very quickly.

LFMs are among the few at MIT who walk from one end of campus to the other for classes. LFMs experience the top engineering program in the world and receive a world-class education at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Class Profile

MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing joint MS/MBA program enrolls approximately 50 students each year from a competitive applicant pool. These men and women represent a diverse mix of age groups, educational backgrounds, and industries. Combined with the Sloan MBA students (around 325), LFM students benefit from the wider range of academic and research programs throughout MIT Sloan, the School of Engineering, and MIT.

Class of 2010

Class Size	48
Demographic data
Female	23%
Male	77%
Internationals	10%
Age (in years)
Range of age	24-35
Average age	27
Work experience (in years)
Range of experience	2-12
Average years of experience	5
Academic averages
Average GPA (4.0 maximum)	3.55
Average GRE Verbal (800 maximum)	559
Average GRE Quantitative (800 maximum)	752
Average GMAT	698
Range of GMAT (middle 80%)	640-750
Sponsorship
Corporate Sponsored	5

Undergraduate Majors*
Aerospace Engineering	1
Biomedical and Electrical Engineering	1
Biomedical Engineering	2
Chemical Engineering	7
Civil Engineering	1
Computer Engineering	1
Economics	1
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	1
Electrical Engineering	5
Electronics	1
Industrial Engineering	5
Management	1
Marine Engineering	1
Materials Science & Engineering	2
Mechanical Engineering	16
Physics	1
Systems Engineering	2

* includes double majors

Previous Employers - Class of 2010
3M	ISE Corporation
Abbott Laboratories	L-3 Communications, SSG-Tinsley
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	Maersk Lines Limited
Arup	Northrop Grumman
Bain & Company	PowerAdvocate, Inc.
Boston Scientific Corporation	Qualcomm
CGI	Raytheon Company
Danaher Motion	Rincon Research Corporation
Dell Inc.	RR Donnelley
ECRI Institute - Applied Solutions	Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Eli Lilly and Company	Space Systems Loral
Energy Innovations (an Idealab Company)	The Boeing Company
Ford Motor Company	The Boston Consulting Group
General Electric Co.	Underwriters Laboratories Inc
General Motors	United States Army
Genie Industries	United States Coast Guard
Georgia-Pacific	United States Navy
IN USA, Inc	Volkswagen China Investment Ltd.
Ingersoll Rand	Worldlink Education
Intel Corporation

Current LFM engineering discipline
Aeronautics and Astronautics	1
Chemical Engineering	4
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	5
Engineering Systems Division	24
Materials Science and Engineering	1
Mechanical Engineering	13