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Our education here doesn’t make a distinction between people who are good at theory and people who are good with their hands, because at MIT, you need to be good at both.

- Professor Ian Hunter

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26

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MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2025-26

U.S. News and Word Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of its annual rankings, including placing mechanical engineering and five other areas first among individual disciplines.