MIT AT A GLANCE
History
Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861
Motto
Mens et manus—"Mind and Hand"
Campus
168 acres in Cambridge, Massachusetts
18 student residences
26 acres of playing fields
Employees
Approximately 11,840 (including faculty)
Faculty
Professors (all ranks): 1,021
Other teaching staff: 809
Selected Honors (MIT Community, Current and Former)
80 Nobel Laureates
56 National Medal of Science winners
28 National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners
43 MacArthur Fellows
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
Major programs: 46
Minor programs: 49
Freshman Admission, Class of 2018
Applicants: 18,356
Admits: 1,447
Percentage admitted: 7.9%
Students, Academic Year 2014–2015
Total: 11,319
Undergraduates: 4,512
Women: 2,055 (46%)
Minorities: 2,317 (51%)
Graduate students: 6,807
Women: 2,171 (32%)
Minorities: 1,379 (20%)
International Students, 2014–2015
Undergraduates: 436
Graduate students: 2,748
Exchange, visiting, special students: 405
Undergraduate Cost, 2014–2015
Tuition: $44,720
Room and board: $13,224
Undergraduate Financial Aid, 2013–2014
Students attending tuition-free: 32%
Students awarded a need-based MIT scholarship: 56%
Average need-based financial aid award: $34,551
MISSION
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.
ORIGINS AND LEADERSHIP
OriginsThe Institute admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America.
Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.
Presidents of the Institute
L. Rafael Reif, 2012–
Susan Hockfield, 2004–2012
Charles Marstiller Vest, 1990–2004
Paul Edward Gray, 1980–1990
Jerome Bert Wiesner, 1971–1980
Howard Wesley Johnson, 1966–1971
Julius Adams Stratton, 1959–1966
James Rhyne Killian, Jr., 1948–1958
Karl Taylor Compton, 1930–1948
Samuel Wesley Stratton, 1923–1930
Ernest Fox Nichols, 1921–1922
Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, 1909–1920
Henry Smith Pritchett, 1900–1907
James Mason Crafts, 1897–1900
Francis Amasa Walker, 1881–1897
John Daniel Runkle, 1870–1878
William Barton Rogers, 1862–1870, 1879–1881
Administrative Organization
The Institute’s chief executive officer is the president. Senior academic and administrative officers include the provost, chancellor, executive vice president, chancellor for academic advancement, associate provost, deans of the schools, vice presidents, dean for graduate education, dean for undergraduate education, dean for student life, dean of digital learning, director of the Institute Libraries, and Institute community and equity officer. The Institute’s academic departments and divisions—each under the leadership of a head, director, or associate dean—are organized within the five schools. In addition, numerous interdisciplinary laboratories and centers have been organized to facilitate research in fields that extend across traditional boundaries.
The MIT Faculty determines the Institute's educational policy. The Faculty meets monthly and conducts much of its business through elected standing committees.
The Institute's board of trustees, known as the Corporation, includes 70 distinguished leaders in engineering, science, industry, education, and other professions, and (ex officio) the MIT chairman, president, executive vice president and treasurer, secretary of the Corporation, president of the Alumni Association, and three representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Corporation also includes approximately 35 emeritus members. Approximately 80 percent of the members of the Corporation are alumni of MIT.
FACULTY AND STAFF
The MIT faculty instructs undergraduate and graduate students and engages in research.
MIT's Total Teaching Staff, as of October 2014
Professors 662
Associate professors 190
Assistant professors 169
Senior lecturers, lecturers, and professors emeriti 616
Instructors (including technical instructors) 155
Professors of the practice and adjunct faculty 37
MIT employs approximately 11,840 individuals on campus.
There are 1,021 faculty members (professors of all ranks), including 224 women.
Minority group representation among faculty includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, Hispanic, and Asian.
The student-faculty ratio is 8:1.
Eighty-one present and former members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize, including nine current faculty members (recognized individually or as part of a team).
Thirty-nine current and former members of the MIT faculty have received the National Medal of Science.
One current and one emeritus faculty members have been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Eleven current and former members of the faculty have won the John Bates Clark Medal.
Four present and former members of the MIT community have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Two current faculty members have won the Millennium Technology Prize.
There are 65 Guggenheim Fellows, five Fulbright Scholars, and 22 MacArthur Fellows among current MIT faculty and staff.
Seventy-nine current MIT faculty and staff are members of the National Academy of Sciences, 59 are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 31 are members of the Institute of Medicine.
The title of Institute Professor is the highest honor awarded by the faculty and administration at MIT.
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