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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
  • 4,172 undergraduates
  • 6,048 graduate students

Admissions
  • 12% applicants admitted
  • 98% of admitted students 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 $78 million of scholarships and grants from all sources each year; approximately $66 million comes from MIT.
  • 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.
  • Financial aid news: Families earning under $75,000 will qualify for free tuition, and MIT will eliminate the student loan expectation for these families.



Great Links

MIT in Your Area - Meet admissions counselors in person.

Read about and sign up for the overnight program to visit MIT and stay 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.

Read MIT student quotes and application essays on Vault.com.