Not even mentioning rankings, since its formation this school of only 10,000 students and faculty has produced 12 Nobel Prize winners, the inventors of the telephone and airplane, the founder of the Douglass Aircraft Corporation, and countless other scientists and entrepreneurs.
撇開學校評鑑不談，這個只有一萬餘名師生的「小學校」自建校以來，一共產生了十二位諾貝爾獎得主。另外像電話發明人貝爾、飛機發明人萊特、電學發明家浦平、道格拉斯飛機公司創辦人道格拉斯、通用汽車公司創辦人史龍、杜邦公司家族十餘人… …，都是 MIT 的傑出校友。