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Campus Setting
  • Urban setting
  • City population (Cambridge): 101,000
  • City population (Boston): 590,000
  • Metropolitan population (Greater Boston): 4,500,000

Size
  • 4,232 undergraduates
  • 6,152 graduate students

Admissions
  • 10% applicants admitted
  • 98% of admitted students (who reported class rank) were in top 10% of HS class
  • SAT V middle 50%: 670-770
  • SAT M middle 50%: 730-800
  • ACT middle 50%: 31-35

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General Information
  • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a co-ed research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one mile from downtown Boston. Map.
  • MIT's campus has 168 acres stretching along the Charles River. (Most of the undergraduate dorms have great river views.)
  • MIT's mascot is the beaver—nature's original engineer.
  • Visit MIT's website at web.mit.edu
  • Visit the MIT Admissions website to read student and staff blogs and get more information.
  • To receive more information from MIT, sign up for a free MyMIT account.


Financial Aid & Scholarship
  • 58% of MIT undergraduates receive an MIT scholarship. 70% of MIT undergraduates receive scholarships and grants from any source. 90% of MIT undergraduates receive some form of financial aid (including scholarships, loans, and jobs from any source). Learn more.
  • MIT students receive $87.5 million of scholarships and grants from all sources each year.
  • MIT has "need-blind" admission—financial need has no bearing on admissions decisions.
  • MIT has both ''need-based'' and ''full-need'' financial aid policies. This means that financial aid is awarded based on financial need (not academic or athletic achievements), and MIT is committed to meeting 100% of every student's demonstrated need.



Great Links

MIT in Your Area - Meet admissions counselors in person.

Read about and sign up for the overnight program or shadow a student program to visit MIT and hang out with a current student.

Watch MIT TechTV, a video sharing site with videos on science and technology at MIT.

Check out MITWorld for free videos of significant events at MIT.

Learn more about MIT through Wikipedia.