Overview: About MIT
About MIT
MIT is a world-class educational institution. Its 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.
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 greatest 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. MIT seeks to develop in each member of the community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of mankind.
MIT is independent, co-educational, and privately-endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass 34 academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as numerous interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries. MIT is located on 168 acres that extend more than a mile along the Cambridge side of the Charles River Basin.
Sixty-three current faculty and staff members belong to the National Academy of Engineering, 65 to the National Academy of Sciences, 25 to the Institute of Medicine, and 130 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Seventy-one current and former members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize. Thirty-two current and former members of the MIT community have received the National Medal of Science, and two were awarded the National Medal of Technology.
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