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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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We Are MechE at MIT

What’s so unique about the MIT MechE spirit? Hear it straight from our students and faculty in this short video.

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2020-21

QS World University Rankings has named MIT the world’s top university for the ninth year in a row and number one in the Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering subject area for 2020-21.

Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19, a native Zimbabwean and former MechE minor, uses his experiences at MIT to develop improvements in education policy in Sierra Leone through MISTI-Africa