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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.
Faculty
Undergraduate Information
Graduate / Postgraduate Information
Students
Graduate Output
Range of Fees
Most students are charged by MIT for the 2007-08 academic year $34,986.
Basic TOEFL/IELTS requirements
Some departments at MIT require international applicants to submit the results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Please check the Graduate Application for the requirements of your department.
The MIT Committee on Graduate School Policy requires newly admitted international graduate students whose primary language of instruction was not English to take the English Evaluation Test (EET) as a means of determining the current level of their English language skills. Information about the EET is available from the MIT English as a Second Language Program.
Accommodation
http://web.mit.edu/housing/grad/ gives information on graduate and family housing.
Accommodation Range
Housing (on campus) can range from $4,725 to $13,365.
- Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) MLOG and ZLOG
- Graduate Admissions
- International Students Office (ISO)
- MIT Admissions Office
- Office of the President
- Office of the Provost - Institutional Research
- Office of the Registrar
- Business/Management

