MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management

This program is for people who want serious analytical training in how goods, information, and money move through a supply chain. It suits professionals who already work in or alongside supply chains who want to back their day-to-day decisions with stronger quantitative methods. Those looking to change careers into the field, or anyone aiming for senior roles that require seeing how demand planning, stocking levels, shipping, and facility networks affect one another will also benefit from this program. Because the coursework draws on examples from industries like healthcare, sports, finance, and sustainability, you don't need to come from a traditional logistics background. The program is also a good fit for learners who want to study on their own schedule alongside a full-time job.

Roles that may benefit the most from this program include:

• Supply chain analysts, planners, and coordinators early or mid-career who want to build technical depth in forecasting, inventory, and transportation
• Procurement, purchasing, and logistics professionals whose roles now involve complex data and modeling decisions
• Operations managers who want an end-to-end view of supply chains, from strategy to execution
• Career changers moving into supply chain from other fields, particularly as several universities accept this MicroMasters credential for credit.

The MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management is highly flexible and there are no formal prerequisites and no mandated order in which the courses must be completed.

Learners interested in pursuing the entire credential may find the following course order beneficial:

1. Supply Chain Analytics (SC0x)
2. Supply Chain Fundamentals (SC1x)
3. Supply Chain Design (SC2x)
4. Supply Chain Dynamics (SC3x)
5. Supply Chain Technology and Systems (SC4x)

In order to be eligible to take the Supply Chain Comprehensive exam, a learner must have completed and successfully earned a certificate in each of the five individual courses within the program.

The MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management is a graduate-level curriculum that combines rigorous academic content with practical applications. The program prepares learners for strategic roles that leverage data, models, and technology to make better decisions across forecasting, inventory management, transportation, network design, and supply chain systems.

Course content is tied to current professional challenges, and due to the rigorous nature of courses, a MicroMasters credential is a demonstrated achievement you can use with employers to show your expertise.

MicroMasters programs serve as both a pathway to a full master’s degree and as a standalone credential. By completing the MicroMasters credential in Supply Chain Management, you become eligible to apply to master's programs at MIT, within the MIT SCALE Network, and at other pathway universities around the world.

Additionally, upon completing this program, you will:

• Gain access to an official Infinite Connection account on the MIT Alumni Association website
• Gain access to a private LinkedIn group, ideal for discovering job postings and professional opportunities
• Participate in MIT Alumni Association events and exclusive MITx MicroMasters in SCM credential holder events
• Receive discounted registration for select MIT CTL conferences, bootcamps, and workshops
• Enjoy access to library journals through JSTOR and EBSCO
• Be eligible for a 10% discount on all MIT Press publications (print books and e-books) for continued career development

In your day-to-day, this program will help you:

• Make data-driven decisions. Apply probability, statistics, and optimization to real supply chain problems. Handle operational trade-offs. Balance forecasting, inventory, and transportation decisions.
• Design networks. Design and evaluate supply chain networks, along with financial and information flows.
• Think in systems. Understand how supply chains behave as interconnected, dynamic systems.
• See the full picture. Build an end-to-end understanding that supports moves into broader planning, operations, or leadership roles.
• Earn credentials. Get an MIT Open Learning certificate at each stage and a program credential on completion. For graduate study, the credential is accepted for credit by over 40 master's programs at universities around the world, including as one semester's worth of study in the MIT Supply Chain Management Master's Program.

All courses are asynchronous and online-only, providing learners with maximum flexibility in their schedules. View the annual course run schedule.

Courses are pre-recorded, and lessons, assignments, and exams are released according to a schedule specific to each course. The schedule will be posted at the beginning of each course and will vary based on whether a course is self- or instructor-paced.

In a self-paced course all materials are released at the start of the course so you can progress at your own pace. Self-paced courses still have a fixed final exam window scheduled in the final week of the course run.

In an instructor-paced course course content is released on a weekly basis during the course run and a comprehensive syllabus, deadlines, and requirements are provided in Week 0 of the course.

Please note that all deadlines within the courses are strict and extensions are not available.

Additionally, each course has in-course discussion forums where you can engage in discussions with peers and ask questions to the community teaching assistant (CTA) team.

All MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management courses expect a learner to dedicate approximately 8-12 hours of effort per week, with each course running over 13 weeks. This includes watching lectures, engaging with course materials, completing assignments, and participating in discussion forums.

Learners may enroll in both instructor-paced and self-paced courses up until the listed enrollment deadline. Enrolling in a course after Week 0 may impact the level of weekly effort required to successfully complete all required assignments and deadlines within the course.

The weekly time commitment estimates for each course are below:

• Supply Chain Analytics: 6-10 hours/week
• Supply Chain Fundamentals: 8-12 hours/week
• Supply Chain Design: 8-12 hours/week
• Supply Chain Dynamics: 6-10 hours/week
• Supply Chain Technology and Systems: 6-10 hours/week
• Supply Chain Comprehensive Exam: 3-6 hours/week

Learners who successfully complete a course when enrolled on the upgraded certificate track will receive a verified certificate issued by MIT Open Learning.

Learners who successfully pass the Comprehensive Final Exam will also receive a program credential certificate.

The MicroMasters program credential in Supply Chain Management is equivalent to one semester's graduate-level coursework at MIT. Completing this program makes you eligible to apply to master's programs at MIT and at more than 40 graduate-level programs at universities around the world.

MIT is actively working to expand the list of credit pathway institutions for MicroMasters Program Credentials.

Learners on the audit track can access lessons and practice problems, but not exams. Audit learners are not eligible to earn a certificate nor pursue a full master’s track. There is no cost to participate in the audit track of a course.

Learners on the certificate track have access to exams and are eligible to receive a certificate upon passing the course. There is a fee to participate in the certificate track of a course. Learners who successfully pass all courses in a program on the verified track are eligible to pursue a full master’s program.

Learners wishing to earn a certificate in a course may start on the audit track, but must join the certificate track and pay the course fee prior to the payment deadline in order to be eligible.

You can take one or several of our courses on a standalone basis, or strive to complete all five courses in the series and the comprehensive final exam to achieve the MITx MicroMasters program credential in SCM.

The most up-to-date course fees can be viewed on the individual course pages within MIT Learn. The bundled program purchase is the best value, as it includes all five courses plus the comprehensive exam for $1524.60 ($169.40 in savings compared to purchasing courses individually)

Learners can purchase certificate track access to all five courses plus the Comprehensive Final Exam as a discounted bundle. Bundled credits must be redeemed within 24-months of purchase.

In addition to instructor videos, MicroMasters in SCM courses include exercises, assignments, and assessments that allow learners to apply theoretical concepts to real-world practical examples. Course content is divided between separate learning and assessment spaces.

Learning spaces include videos, quick questions, and practice problems that provide immediate feedback. Weekly Graded Assignments serve as formative assessments, and solutions are released after the due date. Self-paced courses also have module tests that serve as formative assessments.

Assessment spaces consist of the Midterm (instructor-paced courses) and Final Exams (self- and instructor-paced courses). These exams evaluate individual mastery of the course material. To preserve academic integrity and protect the value of course certificates and the MITx MicroMasters® Credential, no solutions or individualized feedback are provided for exam questions.

To earn the MicroMasters in SCM program credential, learners must complete and pass the Comprehensive Final Exam (CFx), a proctored and timed exam covering all content from the five SCx courses.