2005-2-16
I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.
Today we answer a question from Nigeria as part of our series for
students interested in a college or university in the United States.
Muhammad Aminu Idris in Zaria wants to know about the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He asks what M.I.T. has done for computer
development.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in the northeastern
United States. It is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.
M.I.T. says its goal is to improve knowledge and educate students in
areas that will best serve the world in the twenty-first century.
The school is world famous for its scientific research through
programs such as the Laboratory for Computer Science. Members of
that laboratory helped develop the Internet as well as an earlier
system called the Arpanet. They have also helped develop the
Ethernet, the World Wide Web, digital computers and more.
M.I.T. has more than ten thousand students and nine hundred
professors. It is organized into schools of engineering and science,
and the School of Architecture and Planning. Two others are the
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and the College of
Health Sciences and Technology. The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology is also home to the Sloan School of Management.
More than ten thousand students tried for a place in the
undergraduate programs at M.I.T. in two thousand four. The school
accepted about one thousand six hundred of them.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has almost three
thousand foreign students. They come from more than one hundred
countries around the world, but mostly from Asia.
More than two thousand international students applied to M.I.T.
last year. One hundred four were admitted.
The cost of one year at M.I.T. is more than thirty thousand
dollars. The university offers financial aid for all students,
including those from other nations.
Internet users can find detailed information about international
student aid at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web
site(mit.edu.
We began our Foreign Student Series in September. All the reports
so far can be found at voaspecialenglish dot com. To send us e-mail,
write to special@voanews.com.
This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy
Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.