Mission

  

A Home for Great Ideas and Positive Change
The atmosphere of the School attracts many of the world's finest faculty, students, and researchers. At MIT, we believe deeply in the powers of innovation and humanity to bring positive change to the world. In all that we do in this School, we aim to create and sustain a community that nourishes that potential. 

Educating Leaders for a Global Community
In a world whose challenges are global and interdisciplinary, the School has a central role in preparing MIT students for leadership—for guiding change and serving the world with wisdom. Working with the School's renowned scholars, MIT students gain cultural, historical, and international perspectives, learn to think critically, and to communicate with insight, skill, and confidence.

Pioneering Research 

Research is the engine for the School's capacity to effect positive change—with new knowledge and analysis, innovation and insight, guidance for policy, and nourishment for lives. Representing 20+ areas of inquiry, our faculty engage with a vast range of issues: global poverty relief, uses of technology and science, the rewards of creative risk, safeguarding elections, digital tools for scholarship, and limiting nuclear proliferation—to name a few.

A Foundation for Success in Every Field
MIT has long championed the value of a multi-dimensional education, understanding that whether a student is bound for a career in engineering, music, or biology, all students benefit from a grounding in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The Institute considers these perspectives so important that the School is a common denominator of an MIT undergraduate education, providing half the General Institute Requirements, and giving each student a foundation that enables life-long learning in every field.