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MIT School of engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts was founded in 1861 and offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in a variety of engineering disciplines. MIT trains students to become leaders in industry, government, and educational institutions and prepares them to influence the future of engineering education and practice.

MIT School of Engineering confers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in the areas of aeronautics and astronautics, biological engineering, chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, computation for design and optimization, computational and systems biology, electrical engineering and computer science, engineering systems, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear science and engineering, and polymer science and technology. There are more than 100 majors offered at MIT and several departments offer undesignated degrees, conferring an undesignated Bachelor of Science. These particular programs grant students the option to pursue broader programs of study that can not be accommodated in a four-year departmental program.

Quick Facts

In the 2007-2008 academic school year, undergraduate enrollment was 1,803 students. Women made up 38 percent of the student body and 23 percent was underrepresented minorities. Graduate enrollment for the 2007-2008 academic year was 2,740, 24 percent were women, and 5 percent were underrepresented minorities.

In 2007, MIT School of Engineering awarded 578 bachelor's degrees, 710 master's degrees, 337 PhD, ScD and professional engineering degrees.

The 2007-2008 faculty consisted of 255 professors, 71 associate professors, and 46 assistant professors.

The school's faculty and research staff comprised five percent of the membership of the National Academy of Engineering.

Nineteen (current and emeritus) faculty and staff are members of the National Academy of Sciences; 11 current and emeritus faculty are members of the Institute of Medicine; 50 faculty (current and emeritus) and staff are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and three current and emeritus faculty members have been awarded the National Medal of Science.

Since 1995, 52 current faculty and staff received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award.

A current faculty member received the Lemelson-MIT Prize for outstanding inventiveness and creativity in 1998.

Almost 60 percent of all undergraduates with declared majors and more than 45 percent of all graduate students are in the School of Engineering.

The seven departments and two divisions of the School of Engineering are home to more than a third of the institutes' total faculty.

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