MIT is an independent, coeducational, privately endowed research university. It is located on 153.8 acres that extend more than a mile along the Cambridge side of the
Charles River Basin.
MIT ranks as one of the world's outstanding institutions of higher education. More than 900 faculty serve nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The Institute is comprised of the Schools of Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Humanities and Social Science and Whitaker College of Health Science and Technology. Twenty-seven degree-granting departments, programs, and divisions are contained within these schools.