massachusetts institute of technology

massachusetts institute of technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT by the initials of its name in English, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).

MIT has five schools and one college:

MIT School of Science (MIT School of Science)
MIT School of Engineering (MIT School of Engineering)
School of Architecture and Planning at MIT (MIT School of Architecture and Planning)
Sloan School of Management at MIT (MIT Sloan School of Management)
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at MIT (MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology Whitaker (Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology)
They are including a total of 32 academic departments with a strong emphasis on research, engineering, and technology education.

Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, he used the model of technical universities and emphasized laboratory instruction. The initial emphasis of MIT in applied technology in the undergraduate and graduate levels, led to a close cooperation with industry. Curricular reforms of Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush in 1930 returned to emphasize basic scientific research. MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934. The researchers worked on computers, radar and inertial navigation system in World War II and the Cold War. Defence Research postwar contributed to the rapid expansion of the Institute and its campus under President James Killian.

The campus opened in 1916 and 1 mile (1.6 km) on the north bank of the Charles River Basin spread.

In the past 60 years, MIT's educational disciplines have expanded beyond physics and engineering fields such as biology, economics, linguistics and management.

MIT enrolled 4,384 undergraduate and 6,510 graduate students for the 2011-2012 school year. That year he received 18,109 applications for enrollment for the first year of their degree courses, with only 1,620 supported, so its acceptance rate was 8.9%. Among the nearly 1,000 members of the cloister there is or has been 78 Nobel Laureates, 52 National Medal of Science, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur Fellow. MIT has a strong corporate culture. The aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would place it as the world's eleventh largest economy. It is considered one of the most selective US and even the world.