Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Overview
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.
The 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, a distinguished natural
scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational
institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Rogers
stressed the pragmatic and practicable. He believed that professional
competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by
focusing attention on real-world problems. Toward this end, he pioneered
the development of the teaching laboratory.
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 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.
Main Campus
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge 02139
United States Departments
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