Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

F
Score: 35/100
4,571
Undergraduate students
$62,396
Annual tuition
60 / 100
Diversity Index
Medium Campus
Medium Campus
private
Private University
Urban Campus
Urban Campus
Northeast Region

Description

U.S. News ranked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2nd in its 2025 national rankings, which is the same position that MIT held last year.

In 2024, MIT created an online accessibility map using ArcGIS.

Has the university committed to maintaining its DEI programs?

NO

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, MIT recently "closed its Community and Equity Office; eliminated a senior administrative position in the office; and eliminated required diversity statements in faculty hiring." MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, reported in May that MIT's website and other public communications increasingly use language that appears to kowtow to the Trump administration and its anti-DEI position. For example, MIT's “Merit and Excellence” page boasts that "MIT was first to reinstate the SAT as a requirement for undergraduate applications and eliminated DEI statements in faculty hiring." The page also highlights how MIT has implemented more severe disciplinary measures against student protesters, including "probation, full suspensions, and/or bans from campus."

What types of activities exist on campus for disability inclusion, advocacy, and recreation?

Disability Cultural Center

NO

Adaptive sports programs

NO

Student organizations

YES

Other

YES

MIT does not offer adaptive sports, but its Adaptive Recreation Program offers some adaptive equipment, including accessible gym equipment and equipment for adaptive swimming.

Disabled@MIT is an active student affinity group on campus. Recent events include paint nights, game nights, and movie screenings.

In 2022, graduate students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning organized the SA+P Disability and Planning Initiative "to challenge planners and designers to radically rethink approaches to inclusivity in our cities and built environments."

The number of disability-centered articles published in the campus newspaper last year

0

Does the university use stigmatizing language about mental illness or disability on its website?

NO

Does the university provide an alternative-to-police mental health crisis response team?

NO

Does the university offer a Disability Studies major?

Disability Studies major

NO

Disability Studies minor or certificate

NO

One or more classes in Disability Studies

YES

MIT does not offer a Disability Studies program, but its Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies programs regularly offer classes covering disability, including WGS.278J, Topics in Critical Disability Studies; and WGS.137J, Intersectionality, Neurodiversity, and Disability.

Recent News
Published on:
2024-08-01

I have been unknowingly and forcibly outed to fellow students and co-workers. Students in my residence have been unknowingly and forcibly outed as transgender to me in my role as a graduate resident advisor. We, trans and gender-expansive MIT community members, urge MIT to treat this matter with the urgency, care, and resources that it deserves.

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