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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, more popularly known as simply MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, which is a city located in Middlesex County, in the US state of Massachusetts, with more than 105 000 people, living within its limits, according to the 2008 census estimate, which makes it the 4th most populous city in the state.

MIT was established in 1861 and opened its doors, for the first time, to students, in 1865. It was founded by William Barton Rogers, in response to US's increasing industrialization, and, today, it is considered a world-class educational institution. In the past 60 years, its educational disciplines have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering, into fields like biology, linguistics, economics, management, and political science, offering its students numerous educational opportunities in a vast range of fields.

MIT `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.`

Athletics

MIT's 33 varsity teams are known as the Engineers and they compete in NCAA's Division III, the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference, the New England Football Conference, and NCAA's Division I and Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) for crew. Their distinctive colors are cardinal red and steel gray and their mascot is Tim the Beaver.

Notable Alumni

Many of MIT's over 110 000 graduates have had success in scientific research, public service, education, and business, 76 of them being Nobel Prize-winners, 44 selected as Rhodes Scholars, and 55 as Marshall Scholars. Among the most resonant names on the list, we also find: Jimmy Doolittle - US Air Force General, Luis A. Ferre - Governor of Puerto Rico, Tadatoshi Akiba - Mayor of Hiroshima, Recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award, Cass Gilbert - architect of the US Supreme Court Building, and Theodore Tso - Google software engineer, maintainer of the ext4 filesystem.