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MIT students and faculty pursue scientific and technological solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. They collaborate with scholars at other universities and international research centers, and partner with government, industry, and non-profit organizations to make a difference.

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Global MIT offers students and faculty opportunities for international study and research, and serves as a resource for potential global partners to engage with MIT.

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3,274

The number of international students enrolled in degree programs at MIT — 448 undergraduates and 2,826 graduate students from 124 countries.

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Members of the MIT community are making groundbreaking discoveries on the frontiers of knowledge — wherever those frontiers might be.

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MIT launches the Africa Distinguished Visitors Program

The program’s inaugural honoree, Professor Mohamed H. A. Hassan, President of the World Academy of Sciences, recently visited MIT March 16-18, 2022.

Read about his visit.

Academy in Ghana aims to develop world leaders

Founded with the help of MIT Sloan classmates, an MIT Executive MBA graduate’s new school will teach entrepreneurship and innovation.

More on Saha Global’s work in Ghana

The number of MIT alumni from Africa

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MIT Awarded the 2022 Committee of 100 Distinguished Service Award for Courage in Countering Racial Profiling

See Associate Provost Richard Lester’s remarks at the May 5 Gala Event.

MIT ReACT welcomes first Afghan cohort to its largest-yet certificate program

Empowering a global community of learners in displacement.

3 Questions: Richard Samuels on Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster and its impact 10 years later

Richard Samuels, the director of the MIT Center for International Studies, offered the first broad assessment on Japan’s response to their March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.

More about the assessment…

Exploring generations of influence between South Asia and MIT

Oral history project allows MIT students to dig deep into the longstanding connection between the Institute and South Asia.

More about the project…

The number of MISTI featured hosts in Asia

MISTI works with hundreds of leading companies, research institutes, universities, and NGOs around the world, and the list keeps growing.

See the full list of MISTI Featured Hosts…

David Miliband SM ’90 receives the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) has announced that the Right Honorable David W. Miliband SM ’90, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has been recognized with the 2021 Robert A. Muh Alumni Award.

More on the award…

MIT and Danish university students unite to envision a more sustainable future

MIT-Denmark launches Green Campus Challenge to imagine a new, sustainable campus, with international collaboration at the center.

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Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands tours MIT

Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands visited MIT on Friday, taking an innovation-oriented campus tour with a focus on computing and robotics.

More about PM Rutte’s visit…

The number of MIT-Affiliated Nobel Laureates from Europe

There are a total of 21 MIT-Affiliated Nobel Laureates from Europe, including alumni, long-term academic staff, and short-term academic staff.

MIT-Ayiti.net

MIT-Ayiti.net, a digital platform of Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti / MIT-Haiti Initiative developed by professors Michel DeGraff and Haynes Miller, with support from MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab and MIT Open Learning.

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Dreaming big in a small country

MIT students teach machine learning and entrepreneurship in Uruguay through MIT Global Startup Labs.

More about the MISTI GSL program…

IDSS builds educational partnership in Uruguay

IDSS will provide support to learners who take the MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science.

More about the MicroMasters program…

The number of MIT faculty from Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean

MIT community unites for Beirut explosion relief efforts

On Aug. 4, the third-largest non-nuclear blast the world has ever seen shook the city of Beirut, Lebanon.

More about MIT’s efforts in Beirut…

MIT deepens connections to the Middle East

MISTI launches new seed fund in Jordan as part of MIT-Arab World program.

More about MIT-Arab world program…

The number of international scholars from the Middle East

There were 165 international scholars from the Middle East during July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020, out of a total of 2,237 international scholars from over 93 different countries.

2021 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

How can Native innovators in the US use traditional knowledge and technology to drive social, environmental, and economic impact in their communities?

More about the Indigenous Communities Fellowship…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Greenland

Good morning EAPS! My name is Astrid and I’m a fifth-year graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in physical oceanography.

More about the MIT-WHOI Joint Program…

J-PAL North America announces partners through inaugural Housing Stability Evaluation Incubator

Incubator aims to identify the most effective strategies at reducing homelessness and promoting housing stability.

More information on the incubator…

The number of international graduate students from North America

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MIT-Australia & New Zealand

See the MIT-Australia & New Zealand newsletter for full range of student internship and faculty seed fund projects to date.

The number of MIT alumni from Oceania

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The number of international graduate students from Oceania

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Advancing knowledge. Educating students. Innovating to serve the nation and the world.

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MIT & the world

News & stories from around the world

A bright light on New York’s Bengali past

MIT Awarded the 2022 Committee of 100 Distinguished Service Award for Courage in Countering Racial Profiling

Affordable prosthetics and orthotics to rival the world’s best devices