MIT

Tech school, Massachusetts

MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a prestigious research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, renowned for science, engineering, and technology programs.

The initialism is pronounced as three letters, not a word: She got her PhD at MIT.

MIT researchers developed the new algorithm. (Lowercase mit is a rare variant of mitt.)

institution

Cambridge

University city, two countries

admissions · alumni · tuition · dormitories · faculty · undergrad · graduate · engineering · science · humanities

technology

robotics

Automaton design field

nanotechnology · biotechnology · programming · electronics · automation

innovation

entrepreneurship

Creating and managing ventures

disruption · pioneering · venture · ingenuity · breakthrough · transformation · founders · commercialization · prototyping · hackathon

research

laboratories

Facilities for scientific investigation

scientists · journals · grants · funding · studies · data · analysis · findings · hypothesis · methodology

prestige

elite

Superior select group

acclaim · selectivity · rankings · Nobel laureates · influence · prominence · esteem · exclusivity · meritocracy · genius

Categories
Opposites
curricular focus

MITJuilliard

Prestigious performing arts conservatory

liberal arts college · Oberlin · conservatory · seminary · divinity school

institutional character

MITHarvard

Prestigious Cambridge university

community college · Yale · trade school · Princeton · Oxford

geographic/cultural association

MITStanford

California private research university

Caltech · community college · agricultural college · Bible college

Family

admit, commit, submit, commitment, committed, committee, emit, admitted, admits

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G