School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences has 13 departments, department-level programs, and faculties granting S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees. The current Dean of SHASS is Professor Deborah Fitzgerald. With approximately 160 faculty members, 300 graduate students, and 130 undergraduate majors, the school is the fourth largest at MIT. 2 Nobel Laureates, 8 MacArthur Fellows, and 3 Pulitzer Prize winners are on the faculty.
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