MIT ranked No. 1 for best graduate engineering program in the 2026 rankings, leading the country and excelling in six engineering specialties, including computer and electrical engineering.
MIT police are investigating numerous instances of hateful speech and images around campus, President Sally Kornbluth said in a letter to the MIT community Friday. Kornbluth said the incidents - two hand-drawn swastikas, a sign wishing violence on a conservative non-profit, and cases of graffiti and an email list of "messages celebrating violence" - do not seem to be connected.
Trump claimed that his uncle John Trump, a professor at MIT, had Theodore Kaczynski as a student, stating, 'Kaczynski was one of his students.' This assertion is factually incorrect as Kaczynski did not attend MIT at all, highlighting a significant flaw in Trump's statement.