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The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate
students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship
that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st
century.
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating,
and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to
bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education
that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement
of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation
of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each
member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work
wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of
humankind.
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| about
MIT |
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology -- a coeducational, privately endowed
research university -- is dedicated to advancing knowledge
and educating students in science, technology, and other
areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and
the world in the 21st century. The Institute has more than
900 faculty and nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate
students, and is organized into five Schools -- Architecture
and Planning, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, and Social
Sciences, Management, and Science -- and the Whitaker College
of Health Sciences and Technology. Within these are twenty-seven
degree-granting departments, programs, and divisions. In
addition, a great deal of research and teaching takes place
in interdisciplinary programs, laboratories, and centers
whose work extends beyond traditional departmental boundaries.
The board of trustees, known as the Corporation, consists
of about 75 leaders in higher education, business and industry,
science, engineering and other professions.
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