The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes.Īs of December 2021, 100 Nobel laureates, 26 Turing Award winners, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT as alumni, faculty members, or researchers.
MIT is one of three private land grant universities in the United States, the others being Cornell University and Tuskegee University. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.įounded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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