Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), located in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Greater Boston area), is a world-famous private research university, and is known as "the best university of science and technology in the world".

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for its world-class engineering and computer science. In the academic ranking of world universities of 20 15- 16, it ranks 1 in the engineering world and second in the computer world. MIT, together with Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, is known as the academic leader of engineering science and technology. In engineering and computer science, the three schools have long occupied the top three positions in academic ranking of world universities and the best graduate school of journalism in the United States. According to relevant statistics, MIT also has 16 winners of Turing Award (the highest award in the computer field), ranking third in the world, second only to Berkeley (20) and Stanford (18).

20 15- 16 MIT ranks first in QS world university, second in usnews world university, third in academic ranking of world universities and fifth in Times Higher Education world university. By the end of 20 15, 85 Nobel Prize winners had worked or studied at MIT, ranking fifth among universities in the world. According to the statistics of Times Higher Education, the number of Nobel Prizes won by MIT in 2 1 century ranked eighth in the world. The other two winners of the Fields Medal (the highest prize in mathematics) have both worked in MIT.