Does MIT have an honors college or honors program for undergraduates?

MIT does not have a separate honors college or a formal honors program for undergraduates. All MIT undergraduates are admitted to the Institute as a whole, not into an honors track, and the academic environment is already structured at a very high level for everyone. In practice, MIT treats its entire undergraduate program as rigorous and advanced rather than creating a separate honors tier.

Students do choose a major after enrolling, and many pursue advanced opportunities such as UROP, which lets undergraduates do research with faculty, often starting very early in college.

MIT also offers ways to go deeper academically through advanced classes, departmental distinction, undergraduate research, and selective programs like MISTI or certain scholars-style opportunities within departments. But those are not the same thing as an honors college.