Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Quick Facts

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American Swiss Foundation Hosts 55th Stratton Prize Dinner Honoring Susan Hockfield, PhD,16th President of MIT,2004-2012 • Nov. 12, 2026, 9:40 AM ET (Akron Beacon Journal)

MIT scientists break a 20-year rule and unlock never-before-seen crystal structures • Nov. 4, 2026, 7:52 AM ET (Science Daily)

Social.Wiki lets users reshape social apps without losing their connections • Oct. 29, 2026, 9:20 AM ET (Tech Xplore)

Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean? • Oct. 27, 2026, 1:08 PM ET (TechCrunch)

MIT scientists build a tiny robot that swims using living muscle cells • Oct. 23, 2026, 6:35 AM ET (Science Daily)

Facts

Also Known As	MIT
Date	1861 - present
Areas Of Involvement	Coeducation
Notable Alumni	Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • John M. Deutch • Nicholas Negroponte • Alan Jay Perlis • Simon Johnson • Ellen Swallow Richards • David Baltimore • Claude Shannon • Robert E. Hall • Robert C. Merton • Paul Krugman • Robert J. Shiller • Jean Tirole • Peter A. Diamond • Henry Way Kendall • Henry Kendall • Benjamin Netanyahu • Louis Sullivan • Lawrence Summers • Lisa Su • Walter Netsch • Sam Bankman-Fried • Esther Duflo • Christopher Allen Wright • Mario Draghi • I.M. Pei • Ben Bernanke • Robert Burns Woodward • Rainer Weiss • Shirley Ann Jackson • Jane Luu • Kofi Annan • Alex Padilla • Song Binbin • Danny Hillis • Michael Woodford • Ray Kurzweil • Lydia Villa-Komaroff • Carly Fiorina • George Shultz • Victor Ambros • David Miliband • William Nordhaus • Murray Gell-Mann • Lawrence Roberts • Chung Mong-Joon • Jay Wright Forrester • David Julius • Leslie Lamport • Sidney Altman • Buzz Aldrin • Michael Rosbash • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. • Samuel Kobia • Stanley Tigerman • Morris Chang • Robert B. Laughlin • Paul Modrich • James E. Rothman • Robert A. Mundell • Charles Koch • David Koch • Ray Tomlinson • Robert Thirsk • Joseph E. Stiglitz • David Scott • Andrew Z. Fire • Paul Romer • Edward Durell Stone • Lucas Papademos • Les Aspin • Adam Riess • Tachikawa Keiji • Daniel Chester French • Steven D. Levitt • George A. Akerlof • Andrea Ghez • William B. Shockley • Cornelia Maria Clapp • Lawrence R. Klein • Oliver E. Williamson • Jasmin Moghbeli • Raja Chari • Fernando Corbató • Robert J. Aumann • Edgar Mitchell • Leland H. Hartwell • Charles J. Pedersen • William D. Phillips • Carl E. Wieman • F.C. Kohli • Frederick Emmons Terman • Franklin Chang-Díaz • Robert Sanderson Mulliken • Eric A. Cornell • John Robert Schrieffer • Burton Richter • Raymond M. Hood
Related People	Vannevar Bush • Charles Stark Draper • John M. Deutch • Nicholas Negroponte • Joseph Weizenbaum • Leonard M. Adleman • Alan Jay Perlis • Ivan Sutherland • John B. Goodenough • Adi Shamir • Isadore Singer • Edward Lorenz • Karl Taylor Compton • James Rhyne Killian, Jr. • Erastus Brigham Bigelow