20 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate 20 coursework.

• 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Scienceopens 17 courses (6 directly)
• 7.05General Biochemistryopens 16 courses (5 directly)
• 7.06Cell Biologyopens 11 courses (8 directly)
• 2.005Thermal-Fluids Engineering Iopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• 20.320Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systemsopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• 20.330[J] Fields, Forces and Flows in Biological Systemsopens 4 courses (3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate 20 work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 69 20 and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 55 more 20 courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in 20. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at 20.450

  1. 5.12Organic Chemistry I
  2. 7.05General Biochemistry
  3. 7.06Cell Biology
  4. 20.420[J] Principles of Molecular Bioengineering
  5. 20.440Analysis of Biological Networks
  6. 20.450Applied Microbiology

• 5 courses deep, ending at 20.381

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 20.320Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems

• 4 courses deep, ending at 20.215

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 1.00Engineering Computation and Data Science

• 4 courses deep, ending at 20.335

  1. 6.100AIntroduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
  2. 6.100BIntroduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
  3. 2.005Thermal-Fluids Engineering I

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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