Massachusetts Institute of Technology
麻省理工学院
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. The institute adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. MIT's early emphasis on applied technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels led to close cooperation with industry. Curricular reforms under Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush in the 1930s emphasized basic science.
麻省理工学院(简称MIT)位于美国马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇，是一所研究型的私立大学。它创办于1861年，在美国大工业化的背景下应运而生。麻省理工学院采取了一种欧洲式综合性工业大学的发展模式，非常重视科学实验在应用科学和工程学方面的指导作用。该学院早期在本科和研究生阶段对应用技术的重视使得该学院的研究与工业发展紧密结合在一起。20世纪30年代，在卡尔·康普顿(麻省理工学院校长)和万尼瓦尔·布什(罗斯福总统的科学顾问)的推动下进行的课程改革开始重视基础科学研究。
MIT has five schools and one college, which contain a total of thirty-two departments. MIT has a strong entrepreneurial culture. The aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh-largest economy in the world.
麻省理工学院设有5个学院和1个专业分院，学院下面总共设有32个系。该学院有一种浓厚的创业氛围，麻省理工学院校友们创建的企业收入加起来相当于世界上第11大经济体的国民生产总值。
As of 2014, 81 Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, 38 MacArthur Fellows, and 2 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT. MIT places among the top ten in many overall rankings of universities and rankings based on students' revealed preferences. MIT's strongest showings apart from in engineering are in computer science, the natural sciences, business, economics, linguistics, mathematics, and, to a lesser extent, political science and philosophy.
截至2014年，81位诺贝尔奖桂冠得主、52位国家科学奖获得者、45位罗德学者(罗德斯奖学金获得者)、38位麦克阿瑟奖得主以及2位菲尔兹奖(每四年颁发一次的数学奖)得主，均出自麻省理工学院。在这些排名中，麻省理工学院的强项除了工科以外还有计算机科学、自然科学、商科、经济学、语言学和数学。政治学和哲学专业也有很强的实力。
