The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a major research university in the United States, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts (about three miles from Harvard University, also in Cambridge).
MIT was founded in 1861, and was among the first universities to receive land-grant money under the Morrill Act. It was originally located in Boston, moving to its present location in Cambridge in 1916. The 1916 "Maclaurin buildings" form a symmetrical complex in classical-Roman-like[1] monumental style. The complex frames three sides of the large grassy sward now called Killian Court, facing the Charles River (but separated from it by a multilane parkway). The names of some hundred or so famous scientists (Aristotle, Lavoisier, Faraday, etc.) are engraved on the "attics of the pavilions" of the buildings.[2]
In 1949 its president James R. Killian described it as "a university polarized around science, engineering, and the arts." It does not have a law school or medical school, but its business school, the Sloan School of Management, offers highly ranked undergraduate and graduate programs.
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- ↑ complete with inscription, "MASSACHVSETTS INSTITVTE OF TECHNOLOGY," with V's replacing U's
- ↑ Names on MIT Buildings around Killian Court