MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research college which is situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. It is established in the year 1861 because of the expanding industrialization of the United States, MIT follows and adopted the model which is made by a European polytechnic university and this model give more stress on the laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. The college is traditionally famous for its research and education in the physical sciences and engineering, but more recently it has achieved great success in biology, economics, linguistics, and management as well. MIT is mostly positioned among the top universities in the world.
In October 2018, there are 93 Nobel laureates, 25 Turing Award winners, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT. Moreover, there are 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 65 Marshall Scholars, 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, 34 astronauts and 16 Chief Scientists of the U.S. Air Force have also been affiliated with MIT.