<p>Generally, you need 180 units outside the General Institute Requirements to get one bachelor’s degree from MIT, although some departments have higher requirements.</p>
<p>If you have 5s on AP tests in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, you will get general elective units for them (which count toward the 180 units for a degree), but you will still have to take 8 humanities, arts, and social sciences classes at MIT – the AP tests provide general credit, but don’t actually get you out of the requirement.</p>
<p>Undergraduate degree programs at MIT are structured so that you can take all 17 GIR classes, plus the 180 units outside the GIRs, and graduate in four years, having taken four classes per term. If you choose to take more than four classes per term, you can graduate early. This is not always easy, either logistically or workload-wise.</p>
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Yes. In this case, to get two bachelor’s degrees, you would need 270 units outside the GIRs.</p>
<p>You can find more information on degree programs and credit at MIT at [this</a> website](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/uinfo/]this”>http://web.mit.edu/uinfo/). Sometimes it’s easier to ask here.</p>
<p>EDIT: I should add, also, that there will soon/eventually be a “degree requirements” page on the Admissions site. I know this because I wrote it with Paul and Keri recently.</p>