SCM Student Voices

What I have is more than just classmates or friends. What I have is a family with people who are incredibly smart and with the warmest hearts.

The Supply Chain Management (SCM) Master’s program at MIT is a top-ranked professional program designed for early-mid career professionals who wish to grow their skills in operations, strategy and technology. One of the major benefits of this program is its relatively short duration (and correspondingly high ROI) compared to other professional degrees such as MBA and MPA. However, this short duration also poses some challenges that SCM candidates must address to reap all the potential benefits of the program.

My history with the supply chain began in 2011, during a conference by a CPG firm’s manager. That day I knew I wanted to work in supply chain, so I enrolled in the necessary classes to get a job in the field. At that time, I also looked for the best master’s in supply chain in the world because I believe that surrounding oneself with the best, drives us to be better, not only academically but also morally. Therefore, for the last eight years, being part of the MIT SCM program was one of my biggest dreams.

“Women make up 39% of the supply chain workforce on average” according to AWESOME‘s Gartner 2019 Women in Supply Chain report. MIT believes in the value of diversity, so the Supply Chain Management program teamed up with AWESOME, an organization of impressive executive women in supply chain, to offer the first full-tuition scholarship for a female student in 2019.

After a fulfilling quest at MIT with amazing peers who shared in the NDW experience, paths are now diverging and we will all go our separate ways. Nowhere else will so many cultures and backgrounds meet to NDW, but the global networks built by it will hopefully last a lifetime.

It was only yesterday when we wrote our first blogpost introducing the Class of 2019. It will pass in a blink they said, and it sure did. Walking to Killian Court on June 7th to commence 10 months of hard work, friendships and good times was an experience to cherish forever.

So, you are considering going to MIT for six months or more and cannot imagine going without getting your Speedo on and going for a run around campus? Or maybe you just can’t decide whether to bring a one-piece swimsuit, two-piece, Speedo, or board shorts for all the possible future MIT pool parties? If either of these questions has popped into your mind, read on and rest easy, for here we are going to answer both questions and more.

Opening our emails, the offer from the SCMb program jumped out and shone in our eyes! After rubbing our eyes, we realized: yes — it is not a dream!

“Studying at MIT is like drinking from a firehose”: by now you’ve probably heard this famous MIT analogy plenty of times. Indeed, studying in Cambridge will feel like gulping from an endless stream of knowledge.