It also has a long standing rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

Ray Magliozzi has a bachelor of science degree in humanities and science from MIT, while Tom has a bachelor of science degree in economics from MIT and an MBA and DBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management.

The efficacy of melodic intonation therapy has been proven by studies that show that MIT can result in greater recovery when compared to non-intonation therapy.

Furthermore, it has been seen that, in MIT, individuals with small lesions in the left hemisphere seem to recover by activation of the left hemisphere perilesional cortex, while, in individuals with larger left-hemisphere lesions, there is a recruitment of the use of language-capable regions in the right hemisphere.

MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.

MIT has a strong entrepreneurial culture.

MIT has kept pace with and helped to advance the digital age.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

The prominence of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured.

MIT has also taken steps to reduce its environmental impact by running alternative fuel campus shuttles, subsidizing public transportation passes, and building a low-emission cogeneration plant that serves most of the campus electricity, heating, and cooling requirements.

" MIT also has 5 dormitories for single graduate students and 2 apartment buildings on campus for married student families.

MIT has a very active Greek and co-op housing system which includes 36 fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups ( FSILGs ).

On the other hand, MIT's extensive collaboration with the federal government on research projects has led to several MIT leaders serving as Presidential scientific advisers since 1940.

A cross-registration program between MIT and Wellesley College has also existed since 1969, and in 2002 the Cambridge – MIT Institute launched an undergraduate exchange program between MIT and the University of Cambridge.

MIT has more modest cross-registration programs with Boston University, Brandeis University, Tufts University, Massachusetts College of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Although keeping up with the pace and difficulty of MIT coursework has been compared to " drinking from a fire hose ", the freshmen retention rate at MIT is similar to that at other national research universities.

MIT therapy on average lasts for 1. 5 hours per day for five days per week.

He worked five years on the staff of the MIT physics department.

MIT offers 44 undergraduate degrees across its five schools.

The MIT library system consists of five subject libraries: Barker ( Engineering ), Dewey ( Economics ), Hayden ( Humanities and Science ), Lewis ( Music ), and Rotch ( Arts and Architecture ).

In the domain of humanities, arts, and social sciences, MIT economists have been awarded five Nobel Prizes and nine John Bates Clark Medals.

* The Math Department has been recognized by the American Mathematics Association as one of four innovative programs in the nation and has produced five Sloan Fellowship, which is equal to MIT.

For example, in 2010, MIT had two of the top five scorers on the examination and seven of the top 24, while Caltech had just one student in the top five and only four in the top 24 ; yet Caltech took first place among teams while MIT took second.

Only seven schools ranked in the top 30 in all five categories: SMU Cox, Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, MIT, NYU, and UCLA.

He was suspended from teaching for five years ( with full salary ) by MIT in the 1950s.

Prior to arriving at UCSD, he spent five years as a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1984 to 1989.

In the late 1960s Henry Mintzberg, a graduate student at MIT undertook a careful study of five executives to determine what those managers did on their jobs.

He reports the ( pseudonymous ) comments made by five students, discussing their career at MIT.

The Infrared Optical Telescope Array ( IOTA ) began with an agreement in 1988 among five Institutions, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Wyoming, and MIT / Lincoln Laboratory, to build a two-telescope stellar interferometer for the purpose of making fundamental astrophysical observations, and also as a prototype instrument on which we could perfect techniques which could later lead to the development of a larger, more powerful array.

included in the famous " five foot shelf "-- a series of reference books in electronic engineering compiled at MIT that was the circuit designer's bible in the 1950s.

" The expansion and reforms cemented MIT's academic reputation, though unlike Ivy League schools, MIT catered more to middle-class families, and depended more on tuition than on endowments or grants.

These buildings have not always been well received ; in 2010, The Princeton Review included MIT in a list of twenty schools whose campuses are " tiny, unsightly, or both ".

It was formerly used as the textbook of MIT introductory programming class and at other schools.

A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the " ideal manager ", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools.

Throughout its more recent history, St Andrews has maintained strong links with leading academic institutions in the United Kingdom including the Oxbridge and also the top research schools from United States and Canada, including McGill, Harvard, MIT and Princeton to name a few.

Unlike most other leading business schools, MIT Sloan is consistent with MIT and does not offer any academic honors at graduation.

In addition, MIT Sloan students can freely cross-register for courses at Harvard Business School, and vice versa, the only pair of leading business schools to have such an agreement.

According to PIRG, a number of textbooks already exist, and are being used at schools such as the MIT and Harvard.

They have travelled widely throughout the northeast and mid-atlantic regions for competition at other schools including Dartmouth, MIT, Tufts, Brown, St. Mary's, Boston, Stanford, Coast Guard, URI, Bowdoin, Yale, Conn College, and Navy.

Also, consortia with other schools or other departments at MIT are often able to have money that does not enter into the common pool.

In 1910 he led in the formation of a consortium of area schools, soon called the Commission on Extension Courses, that included Boston University, Boston College, MIT, Simmons, Tufts, Wellesley, and the Museum of Fine Arts.

The California State University, East Bay College of Business and Economics is ranked as the up and comers of the 25 schools to watch by Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), and Stanford University.

It has established 13 joint international schools with foreign universities including New York Syracuse University ( America ), New York Queen College ( America ), MIT Sloan School of Management ( America ), University of North Dakota ( America ), Central Michigan University ( America ), Hamburg University for Applied Sciences ( Germany ), Montreal University ( Canada ), University of Central Lancashire ( Britain ) and Griffith College ( Ireland ).

Nevertheless, major schools of architecture including MIT and Harvard often offer 3. 5 year program to students already with strong architectural background, fostering a competitive and productive academic environment.

at a Glance " booklet contains many loving jabs at technology-oriented schools like MIT and Caltech.

* Other St. A's chapters subsequently became co-ed at the following schools: Columbia University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MIT, and Trinity College.

Students matriculate from Archbishop Mitty High School to all of the UC and CSU campuses as well as all of the Ivy League schools, Catholic universities and prestigious private colleges / universities throughout the country including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis and even The University of Oxford.

" Additional associate schools later included MIT Sloan and The Fletcher School.

In addition to the top MBA schools, the firm has historically recruited heavily at Caltech and MIT.