MIT is among the very best schools around the globe when it comes to technology. Admitting the first students through the doors in 1865 they institute has continued advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas that will serve them when moving beyond the 21st century.

This superb establishment is among the worlds top schools when it comes to commitment and the perseveration of knowledge, dedicated to giving each student that walks through the doors an education combined with rigorous study and a campus life that stimulates. The institute strives to develop in students the ability to be able to work together, solve problems, be creative and look for the betterment of humankind. This top school was founded by William Barton Rogers a distinguished scientist who wanted to establish a totally new kind of independent educational institution which was relevant to what was becoming an industrialized America. He firmly believed that learning was best by coupling teaching along with research, with the main focus being on real world problems. He would go on to pioneer the development of a teaching laboratory.

Today this top school is known around the world as a world class educational institute when it comes to teaching and research, combined with a relevance to the practical world as its guiding principle. MIT is totally independent and has the luxury of being privately endowed. The five schools along with one college provide numerous academic departments and divisions along with degree granting programs, interdisciplinary centers and laboratories of the very best in the world. This one of the worlds top schools is situated over 168 acres that extends for more than one mile along the Charles River Basin on the Cambridge side. Some of the more recent facilities on the campus have been designed by some of the worlds most distinguished architects to meet the many challenges of teaching, research and provide a living community. The institute continues to upgrade buildings and add new luxury facilities. The latest of these was the Media Lab and School of Architecture which was completed in 2009. A new cancer research facility was also opened and in 2010 the completion of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Students MIT from around the world, there are 2,731 international students attending this, one of the top schools in the world and who are enrolled in degree programs. 400 undergraduates and 2,331 graduate students from places including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Canada and Oceania. There is an international students office which provides services that have been specifically tailored to meet the needs of international students, including support programs to help students from overseas achieve both their personal and academic goals.

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