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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  1. Families earning under $30k paid −$2,533 a year after grants and aid, against a published cost of $82,730.

  2. Students who received federal aid earned a median $143,372 ten years after entering, above the 99th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years.

  3. 96% of students finish within 150% of normal time.

Founded
1861
Enrollment, 2023
12,829
Website
mit.edu
Motto
“mens et manus”
Campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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.

From the Wikipedia article “Massachusetts Institute of Technology”, revision 1364536406, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What it costs

The published sticker cost is $82,730 a year; after grants, families who received aid paid between −$2,533 and $48,479 a year depending on income at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Statement of cost · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Family income (per year)
Sticker costPublished yearly cost of attendance, all students
$82,730
What families earning under $30k paidYearly net price after grants, for students receiving federal aid
−$2,533
Average net price, all incomesAided students, all family incomes
$20,111
In-state tuition & feesLatest reported, 2024
$62,396

Each figure is reported separately; none is computed from another.

Net price by family income

Pick an income bracket above; the marked point follows. Dollars are what aided families paid each year after grants.

Yearly net price by family income, in dollars

under $30k: −$2,533; $30–48k: $93; $48–75k: $1,480; $75–110k: $11,555; over $110k: $48,479. Shaded band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years, from $17,360 to $28,210; dotted line at the median, $22,313.
  • Shaded: the middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes), $17,360 to $28,210. Dotted line: the median, $22,313.
Table of the same numbers
Average yearly net price by family income bracket
Family incomePaid per year
Under $30k−$2,533
$30k–$48k$93
$48k–$75k$1,480
$75k–$110k$11,555
Over $110k$48,479

College Scorecard, 2023–24 aid cohort (students who received federal aid)

A negative figure is reported as is: on average, grants and aid exceeded the listed cost.

What graduates earn and owe

Ten years after entry, the median federally aided student here earns $143,372; the median graduate who borrowed owes $14,768.

Statement, continued

Earnings, 6 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$131,633
Earnings, 8 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$135,278
Median earnings 10 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
above the 99th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years
$143,372
Median debt, graduatesStudents who finished and borrowed federal loans.
9th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years
$14,768
Median debt, all who borrowedEveryone who borrowed, whether or not they finished.
$12,462

Earnings and debt come from federal aid records, so students who never received federal aid are not counted.

Earnings after entry

The shaded band is the middle half of private nonprofit 4-years at 10 years: $43,845 to $62,830.

6 yrs after entry: $131,633; 8 yrs after entry: $135,278; 10 yrs after entry: $143,372. Median graduate debt: $14,768. Shaded band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years at 10 years, from $43,845 to $62,830; dotted line at the median, $52,889.
  • Shaded: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years, 10 years out ($43,845 to $62,830); dotted line is the median.
  • Dashed: median graduate debt, $14,768.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Hollow marks are rungs with no reported value, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Earnings after entry and graduate debt
MeasureDollars
Median earnings, 6 yrs after entry$131,633
Median earnings, 8 yrs after entry$135,278
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry$143,372
Median graduate debt$14,768

College Scorecard, federal tax and aid records

What programs pay

Median earnings five years after completing, by field of study. Small programs are privacy-suppressed and shown as not reported, never zero.

What programs pay at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
Management Sciences and Quantitative MethodsMaster's Degree782not reportednot reported
Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree389$220,064$12,000
Computer ScienceMaster's Degree265not reportednot reported
Systems EngineeringMaster's Degree178$194,940not reported
Mechanical EngineeringMaster's Degree149$159,366not reported
Mechanical EngineeringBachelor's Degree141$106,765$11,334
MathematicsBachelor's Degree139$226,193$10,003
Applied MathematicsMaster's Degree132not reportednot reported
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications EngineeringBachelor's Degree87$190,731$11,935
PhysicsBachelor's Degree79$126,258$18,500
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications EngineeringMaster's Degree78$250,263not reported
Computer ScienceDoctoral Degree68not reportednot reported
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Remaining programs
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space EngineeringMaster's Degree68$155,401not reported
Cognitive ScienceBachelor's Degree61not reportednot reported
Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space EngineeringBachelor's Degree57$138,934$17,724
Architectural Sciences and TechnologyMaster's Degree56not reportednot reported
Biomedical/Medical EngineeringBachelor's Degree54$106,402$13,000
Mechanical EngineeringDoctoral Degree53$167,643not reported
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications EngineeringDoctoral Degree52$156,904not reported
PhysicsDoctoral Degree52not reportednot reported
Business/Commerce, GeneralMaster's Degree0$264,269not reported
Biology, GeneralDoctoral Degree32$115,925not reported
Chemical EngineeringDoctoral Degree36not reportednot reported
Biomedical/Medical EngineeringDoctoral Degree46$170,826not reported

Source: College Scorecard field-of-study data.

Who goes here

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 4,535 undergraduates; 19% of students receive Pell grants; 5% of applicants are admitted.

Admission rate

5%

1st percentile among private nonprofit 4-years

Undergraduates

4,535

92nd percentile among private nonprofit 4-years

Pell share

19%

of undergraduates receive Pell grants

19th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years

Completion

96%

finish within 150% of normal time

98th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years

First-generation

26%

parents did not attend college

Median family income

$53,870

65th percentile among private nonprofit 4-years

Students by family income

Share of students in each family-income bracket, for students who received federal aid.

not reported

Show as a table
Students by family income
Family incomeShare of students
Under $30knot reported
$30k–$48knot reported
$48k–$75knot reported
$75k–$110knot reported
Over $110knot reported

Who Wikipedia remembers

Wikidata records 14,256 people who studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, most often in science & academia (65%). That is the archive's memory, not a census.

What the recorded alumni are remembered for

Share of recorded people by field, in a fixed order so schools compare.

Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school, in a fixed order: science & academia 65% (8,061 people); medicine 1.0% (128 people); law 0.5% (63 people); politics & gov 2.5% (302 people); business 4.8% (586 people); engineering & tech 16% (1,946 people); writing & journalism 2.8% (344 people); film & stage 0.6% (74 people); music 0.5% (61 people); visual arts 3.5% (427 people); sports 0.5% (62 people); religion 0.1% (16 people); military 2.0% (251 people). These are shares of people recorded in Wikidata, the archive's memory, not a census of alumni.
Table of the same numbers
Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school (the archive's memory, not a census)
FieldPeople recordedShare
science & academia8,06165.4%
medicine1281.0%
law630.5%
politics & gov3022.5%
business5864.8%
engineering & tech1,94615.8%
writing & journalism3442.8%
film & stage740.6%
music610.5%
visual arts4273.5%
sports620.5%
religion160.1%
military2512.0%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

most recorded occupationsresearcher (3,973) · university teacher (1,940) · economist (885) · computer scientist (750) · engineer (713) · mathematician (648) · physicist (605) · architect (274)

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

Counts reflect who the archive records, not a census.

Share of women among recorded alumni, from 24% for the 1840s to 24% for the 2000s. Decades with fewer than 5 recorded people are not drawn, and 2 decades are marked not reported for women. The line breaks at every decade not drawn.

Counts only people the archive records with a gender. Hollow marks are decades with no women reported or fewer than 5 recorded, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Recorded alumni by birth decade
BornWomenMenShare women
1820s1not reportednot reported
1830s2not reportednot reported
1840s41324%
1850s5608%
1860s158215%
1870s208419%
1880s8779%
1890s91366%
1900s2618812%
1910s132894%
1920s224545%
1930s245774%
1940s788159%
1950s15172417%
1960s14245924%
1970s12129729%
1980s7510641%
1990s192543%
2000s309624%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

Wikipedia attention, by month

Wikipedia attention

monthly views

Monthly Wikipedia article views from 2015-07 to 2026-06; peak 129,379 in 2019-10.
Table of the same numbers
Wikipedia article views by month
MonthViews
2026-0657,055
2026-0561,231
2026-0459,508
2026-0362,909
2026-0257,147
2026-0159,271
2025-1264,373
2025-1164,119
2025-1066,459
2025-0965,001
2025-0864,949
2025-0764,541
2025-0671,212
2025-0567,253
2025-0472,734
2025-0381,113
2025-0268,233
2025-0180,460
2024-1280,044
2024-1185,607
2024-1092,231
2024-0988,747
2024-0888,380
2024-07105,438
2024-0681,904
2024-05102,353
2024-04109,730
2024-03106,396
2024-02100,880
2024-01125,184
2023-12113,905
2023-1197,836
2023-10109,480
2023-09101,337
2023-08110,722
2023-07113,931
2023-06109,425
2023-05105,917
2023-04100,417
2023-03121,222
2023-0295,536
2023-01103,922
2022-12106,085
2022-11123,227
2022-10114,784
2022-09106,915
2022-08106,532
2022-07100,286
2022-0692,363
2022-0593,195
2022-0498,964
2022-03104,559
2022-0295,662
2022-01119,988
2021-12122,635
2021-1191,969
2021-10101,072
2021-0998,273
2021-0894,798
2021-0799,184
2021-0677,325
2021-0584,811
2021-0484,971
2021-0396,216
2021-0283,901
2021-0189,779
2020-1295,827
2020-1192,331
2020-10103,755
2020-0982,227
2020-0879,966
2020-0785,531
2020-0681,995
2020-05106,145
2020-04123,014
2020-03101,730
2020-0294,857
2020-01104,701
2019-12104,468
2019-11107,227
2019-10129,379
2019-09107,922
2019-08100,657
2019-07104,613
2019-06103,411
2019-0592,843
2019-0494,807
2019-0393,465
2019-0280,673
2019-0190,407
2018-1291,414
2018-1198,734
2018-1096,710
2018-0995,017
2018-0892,781
2018-0790,931
2018-0686,519
2018-0597,354
2018-0498,348
2018-03100,217
2018-0284,321
2018-0193,012
2017-1284,853
2017-1193,845
2017-10100,701
2017-0993,627
2017-0896,244
2017-0795,471
2017-0687,907
2017-0595,817
2017-0496,752
2017-03102,646
2017-0296,375
2017-01102,259
2016-1295,379
2016-11100,766
2016-10102,920
2016-09105,398
2016-0892,541
2016-0786,060
2016-0687,866
2016-0597,958
2016-0499,057
2016-0394,573
2016-0290,206
2016-0194,485
2015-1288,066
2015-1193,916
2015-1098,478
2015-0998,680
2015-0890,162
2015-0788,479

Source: Wikimedia pageviews.

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • William Shockley Physics 1956
  • Robert Burns Woodward Chemistry 1965
  • name not resolved Physics 1965
  • Robert S. Mulliken Chemistry 1966
  • Murray Gell-Mann Physics 1969
  • John Robert Schrieffer Physics 1972
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  • 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

The portrait wall

Ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Show all 15 portraits

Similar schools

These are the nearest neighbors in the same sector. The list is not an ordering.

Sources & caveats

Figures come from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. Built 2026-07-17.

not reported
Not reported: suppressed for privacy or never collected. It is not zero, and nothing has been filled in.
Percentiles
A percentile compares this school with others in its own sector (for example, public 4-year schools). It describes position, not quality.
Earnings
Earnings cover students who received federal (Title IV) aid, measured from the year they entered. Students who never received federal aid are not included.
Provenance notes
  • 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.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.

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