Citadel veteran student Erik Eisenach accepted to MIT graduate program

2015 Feb 17

Veteran student Erik Eisenach, a senior electrical engineering major at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in Charleston, S.C., was recently accepted into Massachusetts Institute of Technology's electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate program.

Eisenach, from Summerville , S.C., was admitted to the EECS program in early February. The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT received close to 3,000 applications from many outstanding students around the world and Eisenach's application stood out as exemplary.

The Citadel, founded in 1842, is a public, coeducational military college in Charleston, South Carolina, that offers a classic military education for men and women seeking a college experience that is meaningful, academically strong and is focused on educating and developing principled leaders for a strong military and a global workforce.