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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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The World at MIT

“The World at MIT” videos underscore MIT’s distinctive nature as a community that is at once profoundly American and deeply connected to the world. In three-minute interviews, faculty members recount how and why they came to adopt MIT as their professional home.

Tayo Akinwande – Nigeria

“After working in industry for a while, it dawned on me that I will have more impact in a university than in a company. The most fascinating to me was MIT of all the schools.”

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Mai Hassan – Sudan

“Especially because I teach undergraduate classes in dictatorship and authoritarian regimes and tyranny, it’s really nice to be able to connect with these students and help them understand the different tactics and strategies that these types of regimes use…”

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Nergis Mavalvala – Pakistan

“Everybody here wants to make the world a better place and are using their intellectual gifts and their education to do so. And I think that’s an amazing community to be part of.”

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Sana Aiyar – India

“I think what has really made me stay at MIT and has really made me come to appreciate MIT is how global MIT really is.”

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Yasheng Huang - China

“People take it for granted MIT has world-class engineers and scientists, but I think we ought to let the world know that we also have world-class faculty doing cutting-edge work on international affairs on economics, on society, on culture, on history.”

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Daniela Rus – Romania

“I’m so inspired every day when I go to work and I talk to my students and my colleagues about how technology can be advanced, how technology can make the world better, how computing can advance how we live, work and play.”

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Moungi Bawendi – France/Tunisia

“MIT is a great environment. It’s very collegial, very collaborative. As a result, we also have amazing students. I couldn’t have done my first three years here, which eventually got me a Nobel Prize, without having really bold, smart, adventurous graduate students.”

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Pattie Maes – Belgium

“The Media Lab is about how cutting-edge technologies might improve people’s lives. The work that we do can be so much more impactful because we are not just all AI people or all electrical engineers or all designers.”

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Paulo Lozano – Mexico

“I never imagined I could be a professor at a place like MIT. And the fact that happened is very inspiring to me. Now that I’m on the faculty, I would say that what makes MIT very, very, truly special is the students.”

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Roberto Rigobon – Venezuela

“One of the great things about MIT is that we differentiate success and fulfillment. We emphasize fulfillment. We want whatever we have in our brains to be actually used and implemented with our hands but it’s always with a purpose of service. I really love that part.”

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Hashim Sarkis – Lebanon

“There’s no way I can be a professor of architecture without being a practitioner. There’s no way I can be an architect without being curious about some of the things that are emerging in the academic world.”

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3,505

The number of international students enrolled in degree programs at MIT — 505 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students from 136 countries.

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The World at MIT

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Turning adversity into opportunity

MIT K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics celebrates Sierra Leone’s inaugural class of orthotic and prosthetic clinicians

From refugee to MIT graduate student

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

Our programs

How to engage

The World at MIT

News & stories from around the world

Turning adversity into opportunity

MIT K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics celebrates Sierra Leone’s inaugural class of orthotic and prosthetic clinicians

From refugee to MIT graduate student