The mission of MIT 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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River.The institute also encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated ...

Intensely curious and driven to explore, the people of MIT value rigorous analytical thinking, ingenuity, hands-on problem solving, and big new ideas.Stimulating, supportive, and playful, the MIT community becomes, for many students, a second home.