Massachusetts Institute of Technology Overview

Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of MIT is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Massachusetts Institute of Technology Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at MIT since the student to facuty ratio is 3 to 1.
• The highest award offered at MIT is the doctor's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 99% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from MIT with a bachelor's degree make about $124,213 a year. That's 204% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• It takes the average MIT student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

Contact details for MIT are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone:	617-253-1000
Website:	web.mit.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/MITnews
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/mit

How Do I Get Into MIT?

You can apply to MIT online at: my.mit.edu/

Admission Requirements for MIT

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Recommended
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Recommended
TOEFL	Recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into MIT?

If you plan to apply to MIT, make sure you don't wait until the last minute to fill out your application. The school is one of the most selective in the United States and has a low acceptance rate of 4%. If you are admitted, that's something to brag about!

Approximately 49% of accepted students are men and 51% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 3%, and the acceptance rate for women is 6%.

Can I Afford Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

The overall average net price of MIT is $41,943. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At MIT, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $7,235 a year. That adds up to $28,940 over four years for those students.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 4,638 undergraduate students at MIT, with 4,588 being full-time and 50 being part-time.

There are also 7,296 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,588 full-time undergraduates at MIT, 52% are male and 48% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	1,519
Black or African American	328
Hispanic or Latino	697
White	1,104
International Students	478
Other Races/Ethnicities	462

Geographic Diversity

Massachusetts students aren't the only ones who study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At this time, 49 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 134 countries are represented at MIT. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and Canada.

Online Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In 2020-2021, 155 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at MIT has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of MIT

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was 3,988.2%. This is the #57 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at MIT regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By InSapphoWeTrust under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.