Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Founded in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. MIT is one of three private land-grant universities in the United States, the others being Cornell University and Tuskegee University. The institute has an urban campus that extends more than a mile (1.6 km) alongside the Charles River, and encompasses a number of major off-campus facilities such as the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Bates Center, and the Haystack Observatory, as well as affiliated laboratories such as the Broad and Whitehead Institutes.
See also
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering
- Whitehead Institute
- Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
- The Coop, campus bookstore
