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Mission and Origins
Mission Statement
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.
The Institute admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America. Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable. He believed that professional competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by focusing attention on real-world problems. Toward this end, he pioneered the development of the teaching laboratory.
Today MIT is a world-class educational institution. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be its primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.
2.Building MIT's Resources
Throughout MIT's history, individuals, corporations and foundations have provided much of the support that has made the Institute a leader in higher education. That tradition continues, with MIT today benefiting from generous giving by a range of organizations and individuals.
During the 2005–2006 fiscal year, private organizations and individuals gave or pledged a total of $301.3 million, the second highest total in MIT's history. Individuals were responsible for the biggest share of that total, at $205.7 million.* No matter what the source, however, such contributions are vital to MIT, providing critically needed undesignated funds along with resources designated to a range of important priorities.
MIT continues to develop new resources for faculty and students, educational innovation, and other key priorities. Playing a central role in such efforts is a large and energetic group of MIT volunteers, most of them Institute graduates. Specific ongoing needs include support for:
Students and campus life—the Institute is working hard to develop new financial support for both undergraduate and graduate students, and is likewise seeking resources for student-oriented activities such as athletics and residential life programs
Research and educational priorities—MIT has designated selected areas as institutional priorities, including cancer research and education, as well as a new facility to house these activities, and energy research and education
Buildings—aside from the proposed new facility for cancer research and education, MIT's building program includes a new MIT Sloan School of Management complex, and a new home for the Physics Department and parts of the Materials Science and Engineering Department
3.Schools and Departments, Divisions & Sections
School of Architecture and Planning
Architecture (Course 4)
Media Arts and Sciences (MAS)
Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11)
School of Engineering
Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16)
Biological Engineering Division (BE)
Chemical Engineering (Course 10)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1)
Computational and Systems Biology (CSB)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6)
Engineering Systems Division (ESD)
Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3)
Mechanical Engineering (Course 2)
Nuclear Science and Engineering (Course 22)
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Anthropology (Course 21A)
Comparative Media Studies (CMS)
Economics (Course 14)
Foreign Languages and Literatures (Course 21F)
History (Course 21H)
Humanities (Course 21)
Linguistics and Philosophy (Course 24)
Literature (Course 21L)
Music and Theatre Arts (Course 21M)
Political Science (Course 17)
Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Writing and Humanistic Studies (Course 21W)
Sloan School of Management
Management (Course 15)
School of Science
Biology (Course 7)
Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)
Chemistry (Course 5)
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Course 12)
Mathematics (Course 18)
Physics (Course 8)
Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST)
MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Degrees Awarded
Bachelor of Science (SB)
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master in City Planning (MCP)
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Master of Science (SM)
Engineer (each degree designates the field in which it is awarded)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Science (ScD)
4.MIT in Focus
The Undergraduate Commons
The concept of an educational "commons" recalls an earlier time in New England's history, when land that was jointly owned or used by the residents of a community, such as a village green, was known as the commons.
At MIT, the educational commons is the shared knowledge, resources, aspirations, and values that constitute the core of an MIT education. As graduates discover, it also is the foundation of a lifetime of learning.
But what does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century, in a world increasingly shaped by scientific and technological advances and the global currents they have set in motion?
The outline of MIT's answer began to emerge in October 2006, when the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons, a committee composed of two dozen faculty members and undergraduates, completed its three-year review of MIT's undergraduate educational program.
Addressing the core requirements that each undergraduate must fulfill, the task force called for the most far-reaching changes to MIT's undergraduate curriculum in the past half-century. One key recommendation was for a new and more flexible science, math, and engineering requirement. Another was for a more clearly articulated grounding in the study of culture and society.
A defining feature of the report is the attention given to tapping students' creativity during their first year at MIT. If the recommendations are adopted, incoming students will have more opportunities to engage in active and project-based learning. New science and engineering classes will focus on creative design projects that motivate the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, the integration of multiple modes of inquiry, and team building. In the humanities, arts, and social sciences, a similar approach will animate first-year courses exploring critical human issues such as democracy, the nature of the self, wealth and poverty, and war and revolution.
Equally exciting is the recognition of international experience as an essential component of undergraduate education. The task force urged that MIT make it possible, within five years, for all undergraduates to undertake a meaningful period of study, work, or internship abroad without financial or academic penalty.
Further refinement of these recommendations by the faculty is expected in 2007, with final approval and implementation to extend over the next few years.
Long the leader in science and technology-centered education, MIT's directions in curriculum renewal and reform will continue to be watched and emulated by colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.
5.Graduate Education
For more than a century, MIT graduate programs have provided ideal environments for advanced study by students and faculty working together to extend the boundaries of knowledge.
Traditionally a leader in engineering graduate education, MIT has also attained national prominence for its doctoral programs in mathematics and the physical and life sciences. In addition, top-ranked graduate programs in economics; political science; linguistics; science, technology, and society; architecture; urban studies; and management have broadened the spectrum of graduate education at MIT.
Graduate students may pursue any of the following degrees: doctor of philosophy (PhD), doctor of science (ScD), engineer, master of science (SM), master of engineering (MEng), master of architecture (MArch), master in city planning (MCP), and master of business administration (MBA).
Cross-registration opportunities at Harvard and Wellesley, joint degree programs with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies are significant resources for graduate students. Other study opportunities are also available at Brandeis, Tufts, and Boston University.
The Institute has a single faculty that is responsible for both undergraduate and graduate instruction. Each department exercises a large measure of autonomy for its graduate programs, under general guidelines established for the Institute as a whole. The administration of graduate education rests with the president, the associate provost, the chancellor, the dean and associate dean for graduate students, and the Committee on Graduate Programs, a newly created standing committee of the faculty.
Graduate Students Office
The Graduate Students Office supports graduate students and graduate administrators throughout the Institute, complementing each department's administration. GSO comprises the Office of the Dean for Graduate Students; the International Students Office; and the Graduate Student Council, consisting of elected representatives from all departments and graduate residences, as well as at-large members.
Some Grad Facts
The admissions process for graduate programs at MIT is decentralized. Applicants apply directly to the academic department or degree-granting program of interest.
Doctoral students are supported with fellowships (24 percent), research assistantships (51 percent), and teaching assistantships (12 percent). Thirteen percent receive some other form of support or no support.
There is no cap on the number of graduate students admitted to MIT. Departments admit as many as they can support based on their RA, TA, and fellowship resources, as well as the number of faculty available to advise on research.
Graduate students first outnumbered undergraduates in 1980. Today, graduate students make up 60 percent of the total student population.
There were 6,126 graduate students enrolled at MIT in the fall term of 2006. Thirty-six percent were international students. Thirty-four percent were housed on campus, approaching the Institute's goal of 50 percent.
Persons interested in taking graduate courses may apply for special student status. A special graduate student is one whose intended program of study is essentially graduate in nature, but who is not a candidate for an advanced degree.
Twenty-nine percent of students who complete a master of science degree at MIT choose to continue graduate study, while 52 percent enter the workforce. For master of engineering recipients, the numbers are 15 percent and 76 percent, respectively; and for MBA graduates, 2 percent and 87 percent. At the doctoral level, 53 percent of MIT's PhD graduates go on to industry or government positions, while 13 percent accept academic positions and 24 percent pursue postdoctoral research.
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Mission and Origins起源和使命
Mission Statement使命声明
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
麻省理工学院的使命是促进学生在知识、教育科技、奖学金及其他地区,将提供最佳的服务,在全国乃至世界的二十一世纪.
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.该研究所致力于创造、传播、保存知识并把这项工作与他人知识影响世界的巨大挑战. MIT is dedicated to providing its students with an education that combines rigorous academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community.麻省理工致力于提供学生一个严谨的学术研究和教育相结合的兴奋愉与智力支持和刺激了多元化的校园. We seek to develop in each member of the MIT community the ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of humankind.我们寻求发展的每一个成员在麻省理工社区工作的能力和激情,明智创造性为有效地改善人类.
The Institute admitted its first students in 1865, four years after the approval of its founding charter.学院学生在1865年第一次承认,四年后批准成立章程. The opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural scientist, to establish a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized America.开幕标志着威廉巴顿罗杰斯延长努力,一位杰出的自然科学家建立一种新的独立教育机构相关日益工业化合众国. Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable.罗杰斯强调务实、可行. He believed that professional competence is best fostered by coupling teaching and research and by focusing attention on real-world problems.他认为,最好是培育专业配套的教学、科研和注意力集中到现实世界的问题. Toward this end, he pioneered the development of the teaching laboratory.为此,他首创了教学实验室.
Today MIT is a world-class educational institution.今天麻省理工是一个世界级的教育机构. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be its primary purpose.教学与研究-以相关的实际指导原则作为世界-继续是其首要目的. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed.麻省理工学院是独立的,男女、自费风景. Its five schools and one college encompass numerous academic departments, divisions, and degree-granting programs, as well as interdisciplinary centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.它包含了许多大学五所学校和一个学系、师、学位授予程序,以及跨中心、实验室、节目跨越传统部门界限的工作.
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Building MIT's Resources麻省理工学院建筑资源
Throughout MIT's history, individuals, corporations and foundations have provided much of the support that has made the Institute a leader in higher education.整个麻省理工的历史上,个人、公司和基金会的支持,提供了很大的研究所取得领先高等教育. That tradition continues, with MIT today benefiting from generous giving by a range of organizations and individuals.这一传统继续下去,以造福于今天麻省理工给予了慷慨的一系列组织和个人.
During the 2005–2006 fiscal year, private organizations and individuals gave or pledged a total of $301.3 million, the second highest total in MIT's history.在2005-2006财政年度,私人团体和个人赠送认捐总额达301.3亿美元,麻省理工总数名列第二的历史. Individuals were responsible for the biggest share of that total, at $205.7 million.* No matter what the source, however, such contributions are vital to MIT, providing critically needed undesignated funds along with resources designated to a range of important priorities.个人负责的最大份额,共计2878元205700000*不管来源,但是这些捐款都是至关重要麻省理工随着基金提供急需用项指定一系列重要资源的优先次序.
MIT continues to develop new resources for faculty and students, educational innovation, and other key priorities.麻省理工继续开发新的资源,师生、教育创新以及其它重点. Playing a central role in such efforts is a large and energetic group of MIT volunteers, most of them Institute graduates.在这种努力中发挥了核心作用,是一个充满活力的大型集团麻省理工志愿者他们大多数毕业生. Specific ongoing needs include support for:目前包括支持特定需求:
Students and campus life—the Institute is working hard to develop new financial support for both undergraduate and graduate students, and is likewise seeking resources for student-oriented activities such as athletics and residential life programs学生和校园生活-学院正努力发展新的财政支持无论本科生和研究生,而同样是寻求资源以学生为本的活动,如体育节目和住宿生活
Research and educational priorities—MIT has designated selected areas as institutional priorities, including cancer research and education, as well as a new facility to house these activities, and energy research and education研究和教育优先麻省理工已把试点机构优先事项,包括癌症研究、教育、以及新的设施,以安置这些活动、能源研究和教育
Buildings—aside from the proposed new facility for cancer research and education, MIT's building program includes a new MIT Sloan School of Management complex, and a new home for the Physics Department and parts of the Materials Science and Engineering Department建筑物除建议新癌症研究和教育设施,麻省理工学院的建设计划,包括新麻省理工学院斯隆管理复杂而新家园、物理系部分材料科学与工程系
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MIT in Focus麻省理工焦点
The Undergraduate Commons本科公地
The concept of an educational "commons" recalls an earlier time in New England's history, when land that was jointly owned or used by the residents of a community, such as a village green, was known as the commons.教育观念"公地"回忆当年在新英格兰的历史,当土地被共同所有或使用的社区居民,如绿色村庄,被称为公地.
At MIT, the educational commons is the shared knowledge, resources, aspirations, and values that constitute the core of an MIT education.麻省理工教育公地是共享知识、资源、愿望、核心价值观构成了麻省理工教育. As graduates discover, it also is the foundation of a lifetime of learning.如发现毕业生,也是终身学习的基础.
But what does it mean to be an educated person in the 21st century, in a world increasingly shaped by scientific and technological advances and the global currents they have set in motion?但何谓是受过教育的人在21世纪在日趋功利的世界科技进步和全球已启动电流?
The outline of MIT's answer began to emerge in October 2006, when the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons, a committee composed of two dozen faculty members and undergraduates, completed its three-year review of MIT's undergraduate educational program.麻省理工纲要的答案2006年10月开始出现,当专责小组本科教育公地,一个由十多位老师和两位大学生,完成了三年的审查麻省理工的本科教育发展计划.
Addressing the core requirements that each undergraduate must fulfill, the task force called for the most far-reaching changes to MIT's undergraduate curriculum in the past half-century.针对核心要求每个本科生必须完成,专责小组呼吁最为深远的变化麻省理工的本科课程半个世纪. One key recommendation was for a new and more flexible science, math, and engineering requirement.其中最主要建议是一项新科技、更灵活、数学、工程的要求. Another was for a more clearly articulated grounding in the study of culture and society.另一个是一个更明确地在文化与社会研究.
A defining feature of the report is the attention given to tapping students' creativity during their first year at MIT.性格报告是注意挖掘学生的创造力,在麻省理工第一年. If the recommendations are adopted, incoming students will have more opportunities to engage in active and project-based learning.如果建议获通过,新任学生将有更多机会与积极从事研习. New science and engineering classes will focus on creative design projects that motivate the acquisition of disciplinary knowledge, the integration of multiple modes of inquiry, and team building.新理工科班将着重
