The flexibility of unrestricted gifts supports the MIT community and advances the ability of faculty, students, and staff to nimbly pursue game-changing ideas and cutting-edge solutions. This is particularly relevant at a time when federal research funding is in jeopardy and higher education endowments face unprecedented challenges.
Supporting people, places, and flexible funding
MIT is known for its technical mastery, its research outcomes, its entrepreneurial track record. But behind each success story are the believers, makers, and doers whose minds and hands can change the world.
We know brilliance isn’t rare at MIT, but access to the resources that amplify it? That takes sustained philanthropy—for scholarships, fellowships, professorships, infrastructure, and flexible funds. Raising this foundational support has never been more important than it is now.
Flexible Funding
Scholarships
Student success is central to MIT’s mission. Scholarships ensure access to an MIT education for many students each year and serve as powerful recruitment tools. Support for scholarships at all levels helps make our need-blind admissions policy possible and allows us to continue admitting and supporting the world’s most talented students and researchers.
Fellowships
MIT’s graduate students drive research discovery and exploration forward in all disciplines, contribute to undergraduate teaching and mentoring, help us recruit and retain top faculty who wish to work with them, and deeply enhance campus life and community.
Professorships
Top faculty and positioning them to partner with graduate and undergraduate students to drive MIT’s innovation and discovery engine. Named professorships are a powerful tool for supporting distinguished faculty and tapping the full potential of rising stars.
Infrastructure
The renewal of MIT’s physical facilities and investments in our labs and technology infrastructure, including compute resources, are vital to the MIT experience and have a profound impact on the students, faculty, and researchers who are working to solve society’s toughest problems.