The School of Engineering by the numbers

The MIT School of Engineering is home to eight academic departments and one division. There are 370 faculty and approximately 4,700 students. Roughly forty-five percent of all MIT students are enrolled in engineering degree programs. A wide range of research laboratories, centers, and affiliated programs are also housed in the School of Engineering or its departments.

Faculty 2009-2010

 
Full Professors 247
Associate Professors w/ tenure 51
Associate Professors w/o tenure 28
Assistant Professors 44
   

Faculty awards and honors

 
A. M. Turing Award 2
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 25
American Philosophical Society 2
American Physical Society 17
American Physical Society Prizes & Awards 4
Charles Stark Draper Prize 2
Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award 70
Franklin Institute Awards 1
Gairdner Award 1
Guggenheim Fellow 13
Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award 11
Humboldt Research Award 1
Institute of Medicine 6
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award 3
Japan Prize 1
Lemelson-MIT Awards 1
MacArthur Fellow 6
Millennium Technology Prize 2
National Academy of Engineering 42
National Academy of Sciences 9
National Medal of Science 1
Optical Society of America 2
   

Undergraduate enrollment 2009-2010

 
Women 765
International Students 175
Total Students 1,886
   

Graduate enrollment 2009-2010

 
Women 670
International Students 1,184
Total Students 2,794
   

Degrees granted 2009-2010

 
SB degrees 581
Masters degrees 788
Doctoral degrees 297

Rankings

MIT’s School of Engineering is generally ranked at the top of its fields. The October 2008 Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings placed MIT first in the subject fields of technology and natural sciences, and the most recent ranking of graduate programs by US News & World Report placed MIT’s programs in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering in the number-one spot; also ranked were Nuclear Science and Engineering (2), Civil and Environmental Engineering (4), and our new program in Biological Engineering (6).

Financial Support

The MIT School of Engineering draws on a variety of agencies, foundations, and industries to provide financial support for its academic and research initiatives. The total volume of research expenditures by the School of Engineering in 2008-2009 was $270,897,000. Approximately $175,569,000 of this support originated from federal agencies; $56,201,000 from industry; and $39,126,000 from non-profits, state and local government, and internal sources.

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