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To complement its academics, MIT offers a vibrant <a href="/campus-life/">campus environment</a> with a wide range of clubs, teams, programs, and activities so that all students can cultivate personal growth, build community, and prioritize wellbeing. </p> </div> <figure class="tle-header__video"> <div class="tle-header__video-wrapper"> <video class="pause-video js-pause-video" autoplay loop muted playsinline tabindex="0"> <source src="/files/images/201805/education-1_0.mp4" /> Your browser does not support the video tag. </video> <div class="tle-header__video-controls"> <button class="tle-header__video-button js-video-button" type="button" aria-label="Pause"></button> </div> </div> <figcaption class="tle-header__video-caption"> </figcaption> </figure> </header> </div> </section> <section class="tle-section tle-section--alt-layout " > <div class="tle-container"> <div class="tle-section__inner tle-padding"> <header id="schools-and-departments" class="tle-section__header"> <h2 class="tle-section__title">Schools, Departments & the College</h2> </header> <div class="tle-section__content"> <div class="tle-section__description"> <p>Across MIT, faculty help set the global standard of excellence in their disciplines: They are pioneering scholars who love to teach. Deeply engaged in practice, they topple conventional walls between fields in the push for deeper understanding and fresh ideas. In fact, many faculty actively work in at least one of MIT’s interdisciplinary labs, centers, initiatives, and institutes that target crucial challenges, from <a href="http://energy.mit.edu/" target="_blank">clean energy</a> to <a href="https://ki.mit.edu/" target="_blank">cancer</a>.</p> <p>The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, opened in fall 2019, is a cross-cutting entity with education and research links across all five schools.</p> <p><a class="tle-section__cta" href="/education/schools-and-departments/">Explore Departments</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="tle-section__resources"> <h5>Top Resources</h5> <ul class="numbered-link-list"> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="/education/schools-and-departments" target="_blank">Departments by School</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://sap.mit.edu/" target="_blank">School of Architecture and Planning</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://engineering.mit.edu/" target="_blank">School of Engineering</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://shass.mit.edu/" target="_blank">School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MIT Sloan School of Management</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://science.mit.edu/" target="_blank">School of Science</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://computing.mit.edu" target="_blank">MIT Schwarzman College of Computing</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tle-section tle-section--alt-layout " > <div class="tle-container"> <div class="tle-section__inner tle-padding"> <header id="teaching" class="tle-section__header"> <h2 class="tle-section__title">Teaching & Learning</h2> </header> <div class="tle-section__content"> <div class="tle-section__description"> <p>Our campus is a workshop for inventing the future and we are all apprentices, learning from each other as we go. Because we like to make things, and we like to make an impact, iconic courses like <a href="http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/index.html" target="_blank">2.009</a> emphasize designing, inventing, collaborating, and translating students’ expertise to reach the world. Through signature experiential learning programs like <a href="https://urop.mit.edu/" target="_blank">UROP</a>, <a href="https://upop.mit.edu" target="_blank">UPOP</a>, <a href="http://misti.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MISTI</a>, <a href="https://pkgcenter.mit.edu/" target="_blank">PKG</a>, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/iap/" target="_blank">IAP</a>, <a href="http://d-lab.mit.edu/" target="_blank">D-Lab</a>, <a href="https://neet.mit.edu">NEET</a>, and <a href="https://sandbox.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Sandbox</a>, students can pursue virtually infinite co-curricular and extracurricular projects — here at MIT, throughout the Greater Boston innovation hub, and around the world. Honeycombed with legendary laboratories and dozens of <a href="http://project-manus.mit.edu/" target="_blank">makerspaces</a>, a wind tunnel, a research nuclear reactor, and a <a href="http://glasslab.scripts.mit.edu/" target="_blank">glass lab</a>, our campus of idiosyncratically numbered buildings adds up to a prime spot to make the most of your potential.</p> </div> </div> <div class="tle-section__resources"> <h5>Top Resources</h5> <ul class="numbered-link-list"> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://registrar.mit.edu" target="_blank">Registrar’s Office</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://catalog.mit.edu" target="_blank">Course Catalog (MIT Bulletin)</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://doingwell.mit.edu/" target="_blank">DoingWell</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://firstyear.mit.edu/first-year-advising/" target="_blank">Office of the First Year</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://oge.mit.edu" target="_blank">Office of Graduate Education</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://oel.mit.edu" target="_blank">Office of Experiential Learning</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://tll.mit.edu" target="_blank">Teaching + Learning Lab</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://advising.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Undergraduate Advising Center</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tle-section tle-section--alt-layout " > <div class="tle-container"> <div class="tle-section__inner tle-padding"> <header id="openlearning" class="tle-section__header"> <h2 class="tle-section__title">Open Learning</h2> </header> <div class="tle-section__content"> <div class="tle-section__description"> <p>MIT is pioneering new ways of teaching and learning, on our campus and around the world, by inventing and leveraging digital technologies. <a href="https://www.edx.org/school/mitx" target="_blank">MITx</a>, the Institute’s portfolio of massively open online courses, offers flexible access to a range of interactive courses developed and taught by instructors from MIT. Another MIT innovation — the <a href="https://micromasters.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MicroMasters</a> credential — is increasingly recognized by industry leaders hiring new talent. And MIT’s original digital learning option, <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm" target="_blank">OpenCourseWare</a>, continues to offer teachers and learners worldwide the materials for more than 2,500 MIT courses, freely available online.</p> </div> </div> <div class="tle-section__resources"> <h5>Top Resources</h5> <ul class="numbered-link-list"> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/beyond-campus/mitx-edx-moocs/courses" target="_blank">MITx </a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/beyond-campus/first-year-stem-classes-mit" target="_blank">First-year STEM Classes from MIT</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm" target="_blank">OpenCourseWare </a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://micromasters.mit.edu/" target="_blank">MITx Micromasters </a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Open Learning</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/campus/digital-innovations" target="_blank">Residential Digital Innovations</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://open.mit.edu/podcasts/" target="_blank">Podcasts</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tle-section tle-section--alt-layout " > <div class="tle-container"> <div class="tle-section__inner tle-padding"> <header id="professionaleducation" class="tle-section__header"> <h2 class="tle-section__title">Professional & Executive Education </h2> </header> <div class="tle-section__content"> <div class="tle-section__description"> <p>For executives, managers, entrepreneurs, and technical professionals eager to tap fresh thinking and new research from MIT, we offer dozens of executive and professional programs. Some are online. Some are on campus. Ranging from two days to 20 months, they all share MIT’s signature focus on practical solutions for the real world.</p> </div> </div> <div class="tle-section__resources"> <h5>Top Resources</h5> <ul class="numbered-link-list"> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://prolearn.mit.edu/?utm_source=mit_main_site&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=MIT_homepage" target="_blank">Professional & Executive Learning</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://professional.mit.edu" target="_blank">MIT Professional Education – School of Engineering</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://executive.mit.edu/" target="_blank"> Sloan School of Management Executive Education</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://xpro.mit.edu/?utm_source=mit-home&utm_medium=web-link&utm_campaign=xpro-new" target="_blank">MIT xPRO</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://bootcamp.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Bootcamps</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tle-section tle-section--alt-layout " > <div class="tle-container"> <div class="tle-section__inner tle-padding"> <header id="k-12" class="tle-section__header"> <h2 class="tle-section__title">K-12 Resources</h2> </header> <div class="tle-section__content"> <div class="tle-section__description"> <p>We delight in the beauty and creative power of science, technology, engineering, and math, and we make a special effort to spark that same passion in students from kindergarten through high school — in school, after school, and over the summer. Locally, we engage students, teachers, and families with a range of hands-on K-12 offerings, from structured field trips to MIT’s <a href="https://edgerton.mit.edu/outreach" target="_blank">Edgerton Center </a>to programs designed to encourage girls in their love of technology and science. We also offer an array of <a href="https://outreach.mit.edu" target="_blank"> resources for teachers</a>, to help them make science and engineering easy to grasp and irresistibly interesting.</p> </div> </div> <div class="tle-section__resources"> <h5>Top Resources</h5> <ul class="numbered-link-list"> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://oeop.mit.edu/resources/other-k-12-science-and-engineering-opportunities-mit" target="_blank">K-12 Science & Engineering Opportunities</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://outreach.mit.edu/" target="_blank">K-12 Outreach</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://appinventor.mit.edu" target="_blank">App Inventor</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://scratch.mit.edu" target="_blank">Scratch</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="https://tsl.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Teaching Systems Lab</a> </li> <li class="numbered-link-list__item"> <a href="http://lemelson.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Lemelson-MIT Program</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="gallery js-gallery"> <div class="tle-container"> <div class="gallery-content"> <h2 class="gallery-title"> See Inside Education </h2> <div class="gallery-images js-gallery-images"> <figure class="js-gallery-image gallery-image gallery-image--2x2" tabindex="0"> <div class="gallery-image__crop" tabindex="-1"> <img class="gallery-image__media lazyload" data-flickity-lazyload="/files/images/201804/17423368168_543e6c57c6_b.jpg" data-src="/files/images/201804/17423368168_543e6c57c6_b.jpg" alt="A student wearing safety goggles and and an instructor work together."> </div> <figcaption class="gallery-image__caption">Working in the forge, part of the Merton C. 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