Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Organization

MIT's schools

MIT is organized into five schools which contain 26 academic departments:

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• School of Architecture and Planning: Architecture, Media Arts and Sciences, Urban Studies and Planning
• School of Engineering: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Biological Engineering Division, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering Systems Division, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering
• School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Anthropology, Comparative Media Studies, Economics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Humanities, Linguistics and Philosophy, Literature, Music and Theatre Arts, Political Science, Science, Technology, and Society, Writing and Humanistic Studies
• Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
• School of Science: Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Physics

Other MIT labs and groups

MIT also has many laboratories, centers and programs which cut across disparate disciplines. These include:

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• MIT Media Lab
• Lincoln Laboratory
• MIT Entrepreneurship Center
• MIT Center for eBusiness
• Experimental Study Group
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• The Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
• Radiation Lab
• Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
• Educational Studies Program
• Center for Cancer Research
• Francis Bitter Magnet Lab
• Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
• McGovern Institute for Brain Research
• Picower Center for Learning and Memory
• Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
• MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab
• Lean Aerospace Initiative

External relationships

MIT has close ties to a number of institutions.

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MIT has a friendly rivalry with Harvard University which dates back to the earliest days of the Institute, and the aforementioned merger talks between the two schools. Today, they cooperate as much as they compete, with many joint conferences and programs, including the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the Broad Institute, and the Harvard-MIT Data Center. In addition, students at the two schools can cross-register without any additional fees, for credits toward their own school's degrees. Another cross-registration program exists between MIT and Wellesley College, a renowned women's college in suburban Wellesley, MA. The city of Cambridge is notable for the presence of two major research universities within two miles of each other. A third major research university, Boston University, is located between MIT and Harvard on the Boston side of the Charles River. These three schools jointly run the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.

Related Topics:
Harvard University - Broad Institute - Cross-register - Wellesley College - Wellesley, MA - Boston University - Charles River

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The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, now an independent defense contractor, was founded as the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, and still shares some facilities and faculty with MIT. (The Draper Lab, which designed missile guidance systems, was spun off during the Vietnam War to assuage antiwar feeling on campus and in the city of Cambridge, while holding on to the more lucrative defense contracts at Lincoln Laboratory.) The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution runs its graduate program jointly with MIT.

Related Topics:
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory - Vietnam War - Lincoln Laboratory - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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MIT maintains an undergraduate exchange program with the University of Cambridge in England, and a partnership known as the Cambridge-MIT Institute, which was established to bring the entrepreneurial spirit of MIT to Britain and to increase knowledge exchange between universities and industry. MIT also has close but informal ties with one of Britain's top engineering universities, the University of Southampton, which has its own thriving collection of spin-off businesses.

Related Topics:
University of Cambridge - England - Cambridge-MIT Institute - Britain - University of Southampton

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MIT has also set up relationships with the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore known as the Singapore-MIT alliance. This has enabled it to take quality engineering education to a higher number of students. In 2004, MIT set up the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Program modelled on its own masters degree in logistics. The MIT-Zaragoza program was set up with the local government of Aragon, University of Zaragoza and MIT and hopes to bring quality education in logistics and supply chain management to Europe.

Related Topics:
National University of Singapore - Nanyang Technological University - Singapore - Singapore-MIT alliance - Logistics - Aragon - University of Zaragoza - Europe

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The Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) was set up under a collaborative agreement between MIT and MUST Ehsan Foundation. MUST's syllabus are modelled after MIT's selected courses in order to create a curriculum for MUST's Masters degree program.

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MIT publishes the mass-market magazine Technology Review through a subsidiary company. Alumni of the Institute receive copies with an "MIT News" section added, so that Technology Review serves as the Institute's official alumni magazine.

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