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About MIT

The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose: to make a better world through educationresearchand innovation. We are fun and quirkyinventive and artisticobsessed with numbersand welcoming to talented people regardless of where they come from.

Founded to accelerate the nation’s industrial revolutionMIT is profoundly American. With ingenuity and driveour graduates have invented fundamental technologieslaunched new industriesand created millions of American jobs. At the same timeand without the slightest sense of contradictionMIT is profoundly global. Our community gains tremendous strength as a magnet for talent from around the world. Through teachingresearchand innovationMIT’s exceptional community pursues its mission of service to the nation and the world.

Mission and Values

Key Facts

History

  • Incorporated 1861
  • Motto “Mens et manus” (“mind and hand”)

Campus

  • Location CambridgeMA USA
  • Size 168 acres (0.68 km2)
  • Student residences 20
  • Playing fields 26 acres (0.11 km2)
  • Gardens + green spaces 40+
  • Publicly sited works of art 60+

Admissions (Class of 2028)

  • Applicants 28,232
  • Admits 1,284

Selected Honors

  • Nobel laureates 105
  • National Medal of Science
 winners 64
  • National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners 35
  • MacArthur Fellows 84
  • A. M. Turing Award winners 17

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MIT Facts
A brief history of MIT

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Community (as of 10/30/24)

  • Employees (including faculty) 17,490
  • Professors (all ranks) 1,090
  • Other teaching staff 1,013
  • Undergraduate student-to-faculty and instructional staff ratio 3:1
  • Students 11,886
  • Undergraduates 4,535
  • Women 2,184 (48%)
  • US minority groups 2,594 (57%)
  • Graduate students 7,351
  • Women 3,052 (42%)
  • US minority groups 1,544 (21%)
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Faculty

For MIT’s faculty — just over 1,000 in number — cutting-edge research and education are inseparable. Each feeds the other. When they’re not busy pioneering the frontiers of their fieldsMIT faculty members play a vital role in shaping the Institute’s vibrant campus community — as advisorscoachesheads of housesmentorscommittee membersand much more.

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Leadership

President

Sally Kornbluth

MIT’s 18th president, January 2023 – present

The Institute’s board of trusteesknown as “the Corporation,” includes 78 distinguished leaders in engineeringscienceindustryeducationand other professions.

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Cambridge & Boston

MIT is an integral part of its host city of Cambridgea diverse and vibrant community noted for its intellectual lifehistoryand thriving innovation climate. With a campus nestled between Central and Kendall Squaresand across the Charles River from Boston’s Back Baythe Institute is optimally positioned to collaborate with its neighbors and to contribute to its community.

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