<p>On the website it says it just gives PhD's. If you were enrolled in the PhD program for math at MIT, would you get a master's in math along the way?</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the specific policy is for the math department. In some PhD programs, you would only ever be awarded a master’s if you quit the program before being awarded a PhD, and in others, you are awarded a formal master’s degree at some point along the way.</p>
<p>My department is one of the former; I will have a bachelor’s degree and a PhD, but no master’s degree.</p>
<p>@explodingtoenail: I’m not sure about MIT, but Harvard certainly grants (OK, well, I will say has granted in the past for caution) master’s degrees along the way to getting a PhD, regardless of whether you quit or not. This is for the mathematics department. Apparently Mollie’s department doesn’t have that policy, so you can see it varies hugely.</p>
<p>I do have reason to believe the answer to your question is “No” for the case of MIT, unless someone dropped out (in which case I’m unfamiliar with the policy, since I don’t know someone who dropped out).</p>
<p>Sometimes it is up to the student if they want to get a master’s degree. Obviously, if they drop out of a PhD program they will get a master’s, but at some places you can choose to accept the master’s without dropping out.</p>
<p>So you can only get a masters in math from MIT if you enroll into the PhD program and drop out?</p>
<p>If you are an undergrad at MIT, you can get a master’s by just continuing your education.<br>
However, if you were not an MIT undergrad, then you have to enroll in the PhD program to get a master’s. You may not have to drop out to get one as they may let you get a master’s on the way to a PhD. However, either way you have to be in the PhD program if you weren’t an undergrad.</p>
<p>Okay. Thank you. :)</p>