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MIT — the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — has been ranked the world's #1 university by QS for over a decade running. Founded in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT's "mind and hand" ethos built the modern research university: radar, the digital computer's foundations, the Human Genome Project's backbone, and modern AI all trace through its labs. Its ~12,000 students and 1,000 faculty include 100+ Nobel laureates among affiliates, and MIT alumni have founded 30,000+ active companies. The Institute's culture — problem sets, hacks on the Great Dome, the Media Lab's inventions, and CSAIL's AI research — makes it the global archetype of the engineering university. MIT has deep India ties: generations of IIT graduates pursue MIT master's and PhDs, and MIT OpenCourseWare has made its courses free to millions of Indian learners since 2001.
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