Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.67
Liaison Julie Newman
Submission Date Sept. 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EN-12: Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.99 / 5.00 MIT Office of Sustainability
Director
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1 . Continuing education courses in sustainability

Total number of continuing education courses offered:
2,508

Number of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
250

Percentage of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
9.97

Course Inventory 

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its continuing education sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
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Institution’s inventory of its continuing education sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free, web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Continuing education is a hallmark of the OCW and has been accessed by over 500 million learners. Over 2,500 MIT courses are available to the global community, including hundreds of courses related to sustainability. For more information on specific courses, please see:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

Part 2. Sustainability-focused certificate program

Does the institution have at least one sustainability-focused certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program(s):
EdX offers Verified Certificates of achievement for individual courses and XSeries, Micromasters and Professional Certificates for successfully completing a series of courses that make up an XSeries, MicroMasters or Professional Certificate program. Currently, verified certificates are available in all courses.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s continuing education courses and programs in sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
For more information, please see:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/energy-courses/

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.