The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT for short, was founded in 1861. Located in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, usa, with its main campus built on the Charles River, MIT is one of the world's elite private research universities. In the QS World University Rankings 2022, MIT has been at the top of the rankings for the tenth consecutive year, ranking first.
Known for its engineering and technology, MIT owns the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab (MIT CSAIL), the MIT Lincoln Lab, and the MIT Media Lab, whose researchers invented www, GNU systems, the Emacs editor, RSA algorithms, and more.
On its website, MIT recommends a series of math- and science-related competitions, summer programs, organizations, and websites to students who want to apply to MIT. Since it is recommended by the official website, it proves that admissions officers may prefer applicants with these backgrounds.
1. International Olympiad
• International Biology Olympiad
• International Chemistry Olympiad
• International Olympiad in Informatics
• International Linguistics Olympiad
• International Math Olympiad
• International Physics Olympiad
• International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
2. Science and technology competition
• Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair
• Intel Science Talent Search
• Google Global Science Fair
• Davidson Fellows (Davidson Scholars Fellows)
• Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams (MIT Tomelson Invention Project)
• International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT Young Physicist Championship)
• Breakthrough Junior Challenge
3. Robot competition
• FIRST Robotics (FRC Robotics Competition)
• Zero Robotics (Robot Programming Competition)
• BattleBots IQ (BBIQ Robot Championship)
VEX Robotics
• Botball (Botball Robot Competition)
4. Maker Expo
• MAKE (MAKE Magazine Competition)
Instructables (Instructables Design Competition)
• Adafruit (Adafruit Project)
• MITERS (MITERS Project)
5. MIT students host competitions
• The Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament
• MIT THINK, supporting and funding STEM projects developed by high school students（MIT THINK项目）
• MIT Model United Nations (MUN) Conference