About MIT's School of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering believes in the future.
Everything is changing, and the people making these changes are engineers: we make things, and we make things better. Our collective challenges are steep, and they are global. Improved systems and tools for generating energy, protecting our fragile environment, and protecting us from disease have the potential to improve the lived experience of people from all corners of the planet. Narrow approaches make for small solutions. MIT’s strategy for addressing global challenges is to approach them on their own terms. By welcoming the widest range of knowledge, experience, and expertise under a single intellectual roof, our faculty, researchers, and students attack problems—and solve them—on the grandest scale.
Founded in 1861, the School of Engineering has a proud history of influencing the world through technological leadership and research innovation. MIT is one of the world's preeminent research universities: renowned for rigorous academic programs in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship; cutting-edge research; a diverse campus community; and a longstanding commitment to working with the public and private sectors to bring new knowledge to bear on the world's complex challenges.
The School of Engineering educates about 60 percent of MIT's undergraduates and 44 percent of our graduate students. Just over a third of MIT’s faculty are in the School’s nine academic departments and divisions.
