Athletics and Recreation
MIT's Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation Department offers opportunities for sports instruction and participation at all levels.
- With 33 varsity sports,
MIT supports one of the broadest intercollegiate athletic programs in the world.
- There are 16 varsity sports for men, 15 for women, and two coeducational programs.
- Approximately 20 percent of undergraduates join a team during their time in Cambridge.
- MIT competes mainly against Division III New England colleges, but also routinely
participates in regional and national championships.
- The Institute has earned 188 Academic All-America citations, the most for any
Division III program in the nation.
- The intramural program
offers competition in 18 sports with the participation of 4,000 students, faculty, alumni, spouses, and partners.
- MIT features one of the nation's most expansive
club programs,
with more than 800 participants and 35 teams.
- For those who wish to engage in other
recreational programs,
MIT provides group exercise and mind and body classes, personal and group training,
a variety of aquatic classes, and sport skill instruction.