Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university at the same institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, just across the Charles River from the Back Bay district of Boston, USA. MIT has five schools and one college that includes 32 departments that specialize in science and technology research.

Established in 1861 in response to advances in technology and industry in the United States at that time, the university adopted a European-style research university. MIT now stands on a land area of ​​168 acres which opened in 1916 Within 60 years, MIT has developed other branches such as management, economics, political science, and biology.

Departments and schools of the most famous is the Lincoln Laboratory, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Media Lab, Whitehead Institute and the Sloan School of Management. A total of 59 members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize.

MIT Campus divided into 2 parts by Massachusetts Avenue, with boarding facilities for students and students are in school on the west and east. There are means of rail network near Kendall Square is located in the northeast of the campus. Lots of technology companies that stand around the MIT campus.

Including the emergence of the reactor building is somewhat controversial, especially in this densely populated area, but the MIT said that the building has been under intense scrutiny. MIT campus today has its own wireless network that could reach more than 873,000 m2 area of ​​the campus.

MIT elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and still serves as a research university with a degree of very high research activity. Research funding reached $ 718.2 million in 2009.

The federal government sponsors the largest study to MIT, the Department of Health and Human Services to provide financial assistance amounting to 255.9 million dollars, the Department of Defense to provide financial assistance amounting to 97.5 million dollars, 65.8 million dollar Department of Energy, National Science Foundation $ 61 , 4 million, and NASA $ 27.4 million.

MIT also has hired 1,300 researchers. In 2011, the faculties and researchers found 632 new inventions with 153 rights that have been patented, generating funds of 85.4 million dollars and 69.6 million dollars in royalties.

In the academic year 2011-2012 MIT has received 4,384 undergraduate students and 6,510 graduate students. Where women students to reach 45% of all undergraduates. Undergraduate and graduate students from 50 states in the United States and 115 other countries.

In the upcoming 2015, MIT receives 17,909 applications for enrollment for undergraduate programs. For graduate programs, MIT receives 19,446 applications.

95% of MIT students was 10 when they were in high school. 97% of generation in 2012 has continued into the second year, and 82.3% force in 2007 graduated within 4 years.

The tuition fee for undergraduate students is the MIT range from approximately $ 45,201 and a year MIT student is expected to cost approximately $ 54,507 for the year 2014.

62% of MIT students receive financial aid in the form of scholarships from the federal government, state governments, institutions, and other sources with an average of $ 38,964 per student. MIT itself has allocated funds amounting to $ 87.6 million for scholarships for students.

MIT also has many of the faculty in which faculty are responsible for providing classroom teaching, guiding both undergraduate and graduate students, sit in the academic committee, plus do some research. Between 1964 and 2009, a total of 17 faculty and staff affiliated with MIT has managed to win the Nobel Prize in Economics and Physics.

So also with the students until the year 2011, a total of 24 MIT alumni have won the Nobel Prize who have, 44 of them also received a Rhodes Scholarship and Marshall Scholarship 55 receiving.

Many of MIT alumni who became well-known figure among Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Rajan India, physicist Richard Feynman, former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, former Prime Minister of Greece Lucas Papademos, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

So is a lot of MIT alumni who became the founder of many leading companies, such as Intel, McDonnell Douglas, Texas Instruments, 3Com, Qualcomm, Bose, Raytheon, Koch Industries, Rockwell International, Genentech, Dropbox, and Campbell Soup. According to a British newspaper, The Guardian, "a survey of MIT alumni indicate that they have established at least 25,800 new companies employing more than three million people, including more than a quarter of the companies that exist in Silicon Valley. Earnings that have been achieved these companies about $ 1.9 trillion per tahunnya.Dan if sendainya MIT was a country, then they can become the country with the biggest gross income 11th in the world. "

Many well-known institution which also led by MIT alumni, including the University of California, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, Tufts University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Northeastern University, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Purdue University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Quaid-e-Azam.