MIT has no law or medical school, though its biology department is renowned.
Among MIT's most well-known professors are Ronald Rivest (of "RSA" fame), Tim Berners-Lee (of World Wide Web fame), Marvin Minsky (a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence) [[Noam Chomsky]] (a pioneer in [[linguistics]], and later an anti-war activist), Frank Wilczek (Nobel prize involving the "standard model" of particle physics), and [[Richard Lindzen]] ([[meteorology]]). At the age of 22, eventual Congressman [[Thomas Massie]] received his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.
It consistently ranks as the top university in the world for science and engineering, as well as the top university overall.<ref>{{cite web|title= QS World University Rankings|work=The Guardian|language=English|url=https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/table/2013/sep/10/qs-world-university-rankings-2013}}</ref> It has an acceptance rate of around 7%.