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Act to Incorporate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Acts of 1861, Chapter 183 Stereographic card showing an MIT mechanical drafting studio, 19th century (photo by E. L. Allen, left/right inverted) Original Rogers Building, Back Bay, Boston, c. 1901 In 1859, a proposal was submitted to the Massachusetts General Court to use newly filled lands in Back Bay, Boston for a "Conservatory of ...
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Incorporated1861Motto“Mens et manus” (“mind and hand”)LocationCambridge, MA USASize168 acres (0.68 km2)Student residences19Playing fields26 acres (0.11 km2)Nobel laureates100National Medal of Science winners60National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners30MacArthur Fellows81- School of Architecture and Planning. Architecture 4. Media Arts and Sciences MAS. Urban Studies and Planning 11.
- School of Engineering. Aeronautics and Astronautics 16. Biological Engineering 20. Chemical Engineering 10. Civil and Environmental Engineering 1. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.
- School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Anthropology 21A. Comparative Media Studies/Writing CMS/21W. Economics 14. Global Languages 21G. History 21H. Humanities 21.
- Sloan School of Management. Management 15.
In our undergraduate, graduate, and professional admissions, we seek applicants whose strengths, interests, and values are a good match for MIT. Because the Institute is built on the idea that talent and good ideas can come from anywhere, we are a remarkably diverse community, drawing students from all 50 states and from 136 countries.
Education. At MIT, we revel in a culture of learning by doing. In 30 departments across five schools and one college, our students combine analytical rigor with curiosity, playful imagination, and an appetite for solving the hardest problems in service to society . From science and engineering to the arts, humanities, social sciences, and ...