How often are students hospitalized for mental health issues?
Mental health hospitalizations are unusual at MIT and result only from careful assessment of the student and his or her supportive environment. For example, there were more than 11,000 student visits to MIT Medical’s Mental Health Service in academic year 2007–2008; only 17 of those visits resulted in hospitalizations. In addition, most of those hospitalizations were voluntary, meaning that the patient agreed that he or she was at risk and would benefit from intensive treatment.
