The Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the MIT is a well known private research university located in Cambridge Massachusetts in the United States of America.

MIT was founded by William Barton Rogers in the year 1861 and MIT readily adopted the model of a typical German university and later emphasized instructions of the laboratory from the very beginning. It would be interesting to know that researchers from MIT were trying to find efforts to produce computers, inertial guidance as well as radars for the purpose of defense researches during the Second World War and the Cold War.

MIT has a fine student athletics program that offers a total of 41 sports on the varsity-level. Many students from MIT take part in NCAA’s Division III, the New England Women’s not to mention in the Men’s Athletic Conference. The university has also taken part in many intercollegiate Tiddlywinks teams and this institution also has presented a total of 128 Academic All-Americans and this happens to be the third largest membership in US.

MIT presents a total of 41 sports and thus ranks as the largest university program of the United States of America.
MIT is a large, university that also has residential facilities and is a place primarily for graduate as well as professional researchers. The courses offered by MIT include classical mechanics, electricity as well as magnetism, chemistry and also eight Arts and Social Science subjects.

The admissions rate as per 2007 was 11.9% with an aggregate of above 69% for freshmen who would like to get enrolled. For admissions of the graduates the percentage is 19.7% of the total of 16,153 applications was selected with 61.2%.

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli Prime Minister are just a few of the distinguished names who form the alumni of MIT.