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  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.

  2. Since there are more than 120,000 alumni (living and deceased), this listing cannot be comprehensive. Instead, this article summarizes some of the more notable MIT alumni, with some indication of the reasons they are notable in the world at large.

    Name
    Degree
    Degree Year
    Notability
    Lt. Gen. James Alan Abrahamson (USAF ...
    B.S. – Aeronautical Engineering
    1955
    Director of President Ronald Reagan 's ...
    PhD – Economics
    1979
    Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank
    ScD – Chemical Engineering
    1965
    Secretary of Energy (2005–2009)
    B.S. – Aeronautical/Astronautical ...
    1994
    Mayor of Edison, New Jersey
  3. This list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty includes current, emeritus, former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  4. As MIT’s chief executive officer, the president has day-to-day and strategic responsibility for the Institute’s operations and administration. Learn more about her official duties here. More broadly, the president strives to help the people of MIT advance the Institute’s mission and live by its values. She works to reduce internal and ...

  5. The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.

  6. In 1860, MIT’s founding President William Barton Rogers and his allies applied to the Massachusetts legislature for “an Act of Incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,” which was to include a museum, a society of the arts, and a school of industrial science.

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  8. 3 days ago · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), privately controlled coeducational institution of higher learning famous for its scientific and technological training and research. It was chartered by the state of Massachusetts in 1861 and became a land-grant college in 1863.