Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), founded in 186 1, located in Massachusetts, USA, is a world-famous private research university. The current principal is L. Rafael Reif, and the school motto is "Mind and Hands".

The school covers an area of 166 mu, and has six colleges, including School of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Engineering and School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Its major is famous for engineering and computer science, ranking among the best in academic ranking of world universities, and the rest are physics, chemistry, economics, philosophy, politics, architecture and other disciplines.

After World War II, the school rose rapidly to meet the needs of national defense science and technology research in the United States, and made important contributions to the scientific and technological development of computers, radars and inertial navigation systems. 1865, MIT's campus in Boston officially opened. 19 16, MIT moved to the Charles River in Cambridge near Harvard University.

The school has trained outstanding alumni such as lawrence summers, Noam Chomsky and buzz aldrin. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley are also called "the immortal academic backbone of American society".