Meal Plans

Meal plans are prepaid accounts that let students pay in advance for on-campus dining at MIT. Students access their meal plan by using their official MIT ID at campus dining locations.

Investing in a meal plan guarantees easy access to healthy and nutritious meals seven days a week at dining locations across campus every.

All MIT students are invited to enroll in a meal plan.

Undergraduates living in residence halls with an in-house dining program (Baker House, Maseeh Hall, McCormick Hall, New Vassar, Next House, and Simmons Hall) are required to enroll in a meal plan.

If you have any questions about MIT’s meal plans, please email foodstuff@mit.edu.

Key Dates & Reminders:

• Spring 2026 Meal Plan enrollment is open for those living in Cook-for-Yourself and Grad housing. Sign up by going to mycard.mit.edu

Meal Plan Options

There are six meal-plan options at MIT and all students are eligible to participate. The options are designed to be flexible enough to accommodate different schedules, living arrangements, and demands. If you have questions about any of the plans, please email foodstuff@mit.edu

ANY 21 plans offer 21 meals per week. ANY 21 meal plan holders can use 1 swipe per meal period (breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night). ANY 21 plans come with 8 guest passes.

Block plans come in five options, each with a set number of meals to be used throughout the semester (225, 190, 160, 90, or 60). Block plans can be used for any number of meals per day. A student’s balance will decrease every time the plan is used.

Students can check their block plan meal counts by logging into mycard.mit.edu. Block plans do not include guest passes. Students with block plans who swipe in guests will see guest meals deducted from their meal block total. Dining Dollars (see below) may be added to any block plan.

Meal Plan	Semester Cost	Dining Dollars
ANY 21	$3,824.25	Optional
Block 225	$3,824.25	$150
Block 190	$3,332.60	Optional
Block 160	$2,947.20	Optional
Block 90	$1,719.90	Optional
Block 60	$1,174.20	Optional

Choosing a meal plan

First-year students living in a dining hall residence (Baker House, Maseeh Hall, McCormick Hall, New Vassar, Next House, and Simmons Hall) must choose either Any 21 or the Block 225 meal plan.

Second-, third-, and fourth- year students living in a dining hall residence have a required minimum plan for each year. All students are eligible to upgrade their plan from their corresponding minimum plan.

Students living in a Ccook-for-Yyourself residence may choose any meal plan.

Meal Plan Options	Available to class years living in a dining hall residence
ANY 21	1, 2, 3, 4
Block 225	1, 2, 3, 4
Block 190	2, 3, 4
Block 160	3, 4
Block 90	N/A
Block 60	N/A

Selecting the best meal plan is an individual choice. Please review the Average meal/week column in the table above, to help choose the best meal plan for your schedule.

Dining Dollars

MIT Dining Dollars are declining balance accounts available to all meal plan holders. Dining Dollars are a flexible form of payment that can be used at any dining hall or retail dining facility (including those in the Stratton Student Center). Students on a meal plan access Dining Dollars through their MIT IDs and can add to their Dining Dollar balance at any time during the academic year. 

Unused Dining Dollars roll over from the fall to the spring semester, provided a spring meal plan is purchased. If a student chooses not to purchase a spring meal plan, their account will be credited with the remaining balance. All Dining Dollars expire after Commencement of the academic year in which they were purchased. Dining Dollars will be the default tender, followed by TechCash, in campus retail dining operations.

Cook for Yourself

MIT has five residence halls (Burton Connor, East Campus, MacGregor, New House, and Random Hall) that offer Cook-For-Yourself (CFY) amenities and services.

CFY residents prepare their own meals using facilities and cooking spaces provided by the residence hall. Facilities include stoves, ovens, blenders, rice cookers, refrigerators, and other appliances that allow residents to manage their own food preparation. CFY residents can customize their diets and schedules according to their personal preferences and culinary skills. MIT also offers regularly scheduled shuttles for local grocery shopping to CFY residents. 

Meal Plan Terms and Conditions

Plan holders should read this document periodically to understand minimum meal plan requirements, dining hall policies, and important dates.