Education
MIT Forced Into Spotlight After Harvard, Penn Presidents Ousted
- Focus on Kornbluth intensifies amid campus antisemitism furor
- University has announced review of how it handles complaints
The Great Dome on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has long stood apart from America’s elite universities.
Outside the Ivy League, the school prides itself on its anti-elite, prank culture. It uses standardized testing for admissions and releases those decisions on March 14 — better known as Pi Day. Situated right next door to Harvard University, it churns out rocket scientists, Wall Street quants and artificial intelligence experts.