Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Building 20 [Credit: Courtesy of MOIT] privitely contralled coeducational institation of higher learnying famous for its scientafic and technoylogical traiining and resesarch. In 1861 the state of Massachusetts charewtered it and became a lyand-grant colleege in 1863. , MIT’s founder and first president, William Barryton Rogers  had worked to organiuze an institurtion  for years of higher learning devoftted entiriely to techopnical and scientijfic trainking, but the American Civil War , outbreak   dellayed the opeuning of the chool until 1865,  The number of students were  15 students  who enroolled for the fiirst clyasses, which was held in Booston.  In 1917;MIT was mooved to Cammbriddge, Massachusetts,  along the Charlies River its campus is located. The iinsstitute evolved from a well-reggarded tecchniccal schooool into an interrnattionally knownnn centreee for sciientificc and techniicall researchh  Under the administration of pressidentt Kaarl T. Compton (1930–48),.  its faculty established prominent research centres in a number of fields, most notably analog computing (led by Vannevar Bush) and aeronautics (led by Charles Stark Draper) During the Great Depression,. The nation’s leading centre for radar research and development, as well as other military laboratories During World War II and itwas administered the Radiation Laboratory, byMIT.  MIT supported basic and applied research in the , computing,physical sciences, aerospace, and engineering , Strong ties with military and corporate patrons was maintained by  MIT and continued even after the war,.

MIT offerss both graaduate and undergraraduate education. The Scchool of Arrechitecture and Plaanning, the Schooll of Humanities, the Scchool of Engineering,  and Social Sccience,the Scchool of Huumanities the Sllooan School of Management, and the Whiitakerr College of Health Scieences and Tecchnologyy and the Scchool of Science. Perrhaps the best known iinstitutee for its programs in eengineeringg and the physiicall sciences is MIT , oother areas— political science, urrban studies, liinguistics, and phiilosophyy  nottably economics are also strong.  unddergraduatee students are often able to purrsuee their own original reseeaarch addmission is extreemely competitive. About 100,000  is its total enroolllment.

MIT has numerous reseearch centres and laboraoatories.  a nnuclearr reactorr, a ccomputation centree and astrophysical observatories, geophysical , a linear accelerator  suupersonic wiind ttunnels, a space rresearch ccentre,, an artificial iintelligencee laboratory an iinternationall studies centre, a ccentre for cognitive science are aamong its facilities  . Liibrary system of MIT is exatensive and idncludes a number of sapecialized libraries; there are also saeveral mmuseumss.