unitid 166683 · Cambridge, MA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- founded
- 1861
- enrollment 2023
- 12,829
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- mit.edu
- motto
- “mens et manus”
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1861 to advance "useful knowledge", the university has played a significant role in the development of many areas of technology and science. wikipedia rev 1364536406 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
5%
1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
4,535
92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
19%
undergrads on Pell grants
19th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
96%
finish within 150% time
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$82,730
93rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$20,111
after aid, aided students
37th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$143,372
after entry, Title IV students
100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$14,768
9th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $-2,533 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $53,870
- First-generation students
- 26%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $62,396
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 9.7× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 782 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 389 | $220,064 | $12,000 |
| Computer Science. | 265 | — | — |
| Systems Engineering. | 178 | $194,940 | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 149 | $159,366 | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 141 | $106,765 | $11,334 |
| Mathematics. | 139 | $226,193 | $10,003 |
| Applied Mathematics. | 132 | — | — |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 87 | $190,731 | $11,935 |
| Physics. | 79 | $126,258 | $18,500 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 78 | $250,263 | — |
| Computer Science. | 68 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 14,256 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (3,973) · university teacher (1,940) · economist (885) · computer scientist (750) · engineer (713) · mathematician (648) · physicist (605) · architect (274)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- William Shockley Physics 1956
- Robert Burns Woodward Chemistry 1965
- Q39246 Physics 1965
- Robert S. Mulliken Chemistry 1966
- Murray Gell-Mann Physics 1969
- John Robert Schrieffer Physics 1972
- David Baltimore Medicine 1975
- Burton Richter Physics 1976
- Lawrence Klein Economics 1980
- Charles J. Pedersen Chemistry 1987
- Sidney Altman Chemistry 1989
- Elias James Corey Chemistry 1990
- Henry Way Kendall Physics 1990
- Robert C. Merton Economics 1997
- William Daniel Phillips Physics 1997
- Robert B. Laughlin Physics 1998
- Robert Mundell Economics 1999
- Joseph E. Stiglitz Economics 2001
- Kofi Annan Peace 2001
- Carl Wieman Physics 2001
- George Akerlof Economics 2001
- Lee Hartwell Medicine 2001
- Eric Allin Cornell Physics 2001
- H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
- Edward C. Prescott Economics 2004
- Robert Aumann Economics 2005
- Andrew Fire Medicine 2006
- George F. Smoot Physics 2006
- Paul Krugman Economics 2008
- Peter Diamond Economics 2010
- Adam Riess Physics 2011
- Robert J. Shiller Economics 2013
- Jean Tirole Economics 2014
- Rainer Weiss Physics 2017
- Michael Rosbash Medicine 2017
- William Nordhaus Economics 2018
- Esther Duflo Economics 2019
- Andrea M. Ghez Physics 2020
- David Julius Medicine 2021
- Ben Bernanke Economics 2022
- Simon Johnson Economics 2024
- Victor Ambros Medicine 2024
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Mario Draghi
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Paul Krugman
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
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Georges Lemaître
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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