“For the advancement of technology” MIT
The World’s number one ranked university; Massachusetts Institute of Technology or popularly known as MIT. Dedicated to Science and research it is situated in Cambridge England.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded by William Barton Rogers. Even after 150 years of incorporation the purpose of MIT has remained much the same: the modern MIT Mission 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" by "generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, [and] working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges."
MIT is a research university that places a great deal of emphasis on undergraduate education. There are 21 Mac Arthur Genius Grant Fellows, 9 Nobel Prize Laureates, and 2 Pulitzer Prize winners, among many other luminaries, currently on our faculty, and all of them teach undergraduate classes.
In fact, all classes at MIT are taught by distinguished professors. That's why folks like Eric Lander, father of the Human Genome Project, teach introductory biology.
If you think you might enjoy a more personalized, small-group approach to your first year at MIT, you may want to explore our four close-knit “freshman learning communities,” which emphasize initiative and close links between students and faculty.
The MIT student body is 46% female and 54% male. There is no majority ethnicity, and 24% of our students comprise historically underrepresented minorities. Approximately 10% of MIT students are international citizens. We have students from all 50 states and 120 countries.
67% of MIT freshmen attended public high school, and 17% are the first generation in their family to go to college.
There are over 500 student organizations at MIT. They include 72 ethnic and cultural associations; more than 60 musical, theater, and dance groups; 23 religious organizations; 21 activism groups; a regional ROTC program; and many more. Chances are, there's a group of students here doing something you'd love to do; if there isn't, you can start your own.
Some of the extra curricular offered at MIT include: The Laboratory for Chocolate Science The Mocha Moves Dance Club The MIT Quidditch Team The Roadkill Buffet Improve Troupe Camp Kesem, a student-run summer camp for kids whose parents have or have had cancer Everyone knows that MIT has a special focus on science and technology, but many outsiders don’t know that it’s a flourishing center for the arts as well. Opportunities extend far beyond your required course work in the arts and humanities. At MIT, the arts are widely practiced, performed and celebrated; everywhere you look - in corridors and classrooms, on stage and in the studio. A few examples include MITSO, the MIT Log rhythms, the MIT Corollaries, and the MIT Gospel Choir, among many others. See the MIT Arts Portal for more!
When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university, not to a specific major or school. All first-year students begin MIT with an undeclared major. During the freshman year, MIT will provide academic fairs, lectures, seminars, and other programs to help students determine which major will suit them best; they then are free to choose from MIT's majors, without any additional requirements or admission procedures.
MIT is organized into academic departments, or Courses, which you will often hear referred to by their Course number or acronym. These academic departments offer various undergraduate degrees and minors. MIT announced a record number of new majors and minors for 2016. New majors are Business Analytics, Finance, Management, and Mathematical Economics. New minors are Business Analytics, Civil and Environmental Systems, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Design, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Environmental Engineering Science, Finance, Management, and Statistics and Data Science. MIT offers a total of 49 major and 56 minor programs. Fifty-eight percent of graduates went directly to employment. Thirty-three percent went to graduate school (75% eventually will). Eighty-four percent of all graduating seniors completed internships while at MIT. The top industries for graduates are computer technologies, engineering, consulting, and finance. Top employers were Google, Oracle, Amazon, McKinsey Accenture, Apple, Boeing, and Microsoft. The average starting salary for undergraduates is $83,455.