Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) provides an intellectual counterweight to the otherwise working-class character of East Cambridge. Occupying 153.8 acres alongside the Charles. Originally established in Allston in 1865, MIT moved to this more auspicious campus across the river in 1916 and has since risen to international prominence as a major center for theoretical and practical research in the sciences. Both NASA and the Department of Defense pour funds into MIT in exchange for research and development assistance from the university’s best minds. The campus buildings and geography reflect the quirky, nerdy character of the institute, emphasizing function and peppering it with a peculiar notion of form. Everything is obsessively numbered and coded: you can go to E15 (the Weisner Building) for a lecture in 4.103 (advanced computer-assisted design), which, of course, gets you no closer towards a degree in 17 (political science)。 Behind the massive pillars that guard the entrance of the Rogers Building, at 77 Massachusetts Ave, you’ll find a labyrinth of corridors through which students can traverse the entire east campus without ever going outside – known to Techies as the Infinite Corridor. Atop the Rogers Building is MIT’s best-known architectural icon, a massive gilt hemisphere called the Great Dome. Just inside the entrance to Rogers, you’ll find the MIT Information Center (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm), which dispenses free campus maps and advice.
麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology,常缩写为MIT)是美国一所综合性私立大学。位于麻萨诸塞州的剑桥(Cambridge)小镇,查尔斯河(Charles River)将其与波士顿的后湾区(Back Bay)隔开。今天MIT无论是在美国还是全世界都有重要影响力,也是竞争最激烈的大学之一。
在2005英国泰晤士报高等教育增刊的世界大学排名,麻省理工学院在总平均排名世界第二(仅次于哈佛大学),在科学技术方面排名世界第一,在工程科学方面排名世界第二,在自然科学方面排名世界第五,在社会科学方面排名世界第七。美国国家研究协会把MIT在美国大学的知名度排第一。美国Princeton Review在2006把MIT命名为全美最难进的大学。
经过麻省理工学院几代人坚持不懈地努力奋斗,时至今日,但凡有人提起世界理工大学之最,人人皆推麻省理工学院。麻省之名蜚声海外,成为世界各地莘莘学子心向神往,趋之若鹜的科学圣殿。请看麻省理工学院排名。
麻省理工学院的自然及工程科学在世界上享有盛誉,其管理学、经济学、哲学、政治学、语言学也同样优秀。其林肯实验室、计算机科学及人工智能实验室、媒体实验室和斯隆管理学院十分著名。

