Today we answer a question from Nigeria as part of our series forstudents interested in a college or university in the United States.Muhammad Aminu Idris in Zaria wants to know about the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology. He asks what M.I.T. has done for computerdevelopment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in the northeasternUnited States. It is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.M.I.T. says its goal is to improve knowledge and educate students inareas that will best serve the world in the twenty-first century.
The school is world famous for its scientific research throughprograms such as the Laboratory for Computer Science. Members ofthat laboratory helped develop the Internet as well as an earliersystem called the Arpanet. They have also helped develop theEthernet, the World Wide Web, digital computers and more.
M.I.T. has more than ten thousand students and nine hundredprofessors. It is organized into schools of engineering and science,and the School of Architecture and Planning. Two others are theSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and the College ofHealth Sciences and Technology. The Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology is also home to the Sloan School of Management.
More than ten thousand students tried for a place in theundergraduate programs at M.I.T. in two thousand four. The schoolaccepted about one thousand six hundred of them.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has almost threethousand foreign students. They come from more than one hundredcountries 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 thousanddollars. The university offers financial aid for all students,including those from other nations.
Internet users can find detailed information about internationalstudent aid at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Website(mit.edu.
We began our Foreign Student Series in September. All the reportsso 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 NancySteinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.