Across our five schools, MIT faculty help set the global standard of excellence in their disciplines: They are pioneering scholars who love to teach. Deeply engaged in practice, they topple conventional walls between fields in the push for deeper understanding and fresh ideas. In fact, many faculty actively work in at least one of MIT’s interdisciplinary labs, centers, initiatives, and institutes that target crucial challenges, from clean energy(opens in new window) to cancer(opens in new window).

Our campus is a workshop for inventing the future and we are all apprentices, learning from each other as we go. Because we like to make things, and we like to make an impact, iconic courses like 2.009(opens in new window) emphasize designing, inventing, collaborating, and translating students’ expertise to reach the world. Through signature experiential learning programs like UROP(opens in new window), UPOP(opens in new window), MISTI(opens in new window), PKG(opens in new window), IAP(opens in new window), D-Lab(opens in new window), and Sandbox(opens in new window), students can pursue virtually infinite co-curricular and extracurricular projects — here at MIT, throughout the Greater Boston innovation hub, and around the world. Honeycombed with legendary laboratories and dozens of makerspaces(opens in new window), a wind tunnel, a research nuclear reactor, and a glass lab(opens in new window), our campus of idiosyncratically numbered buildings adds up to a prime spot to make the most of your potential.