美国顶级名校行-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan)大学校园风光

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By Sommer Saadi

Sloan School of Management
The consistently top-ranked MBA program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management began life in 1914 as, of all things, an engineering course, and the engineering mind-set still permeates the campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Sloan today is well-known for the academic rigor of its many programs, which include a full-time MBA program with a recently revamped curriculum and an executive MBA; master's programs in finance and management; joint programs with the MIT School of Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; plus PhD and unndergraduate programs.

Since its founding, the Sloan School has focused on providing students with the must-know operational tools to be successful in their fields—in a setting on the banks of the Charles River that makes the entire experience worth the price tag.

"If you're going to business school to check a box and go back to your old investment bank, you may not fit in," says one student in a survey conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek. "MIT Sloan is a school of brilliant, energetic, self-motivated, and ultimately humble students who are genuinely interested in leveraging their MBA experience to accomplish their diverse long-term goals."

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Class Makeup
Part of Sloan’s mission statement is to "enroll students with integrity, strong leadership potential, high aspirations, and exceptional intellectual ability." That means accepting about 350 students every fall (bringing the total enrollment to around 700) with an average of five years of work experience and an average GMAT score of more than 700. About 14 percent of applicants are accepted into the two-year program. Total cost: just under $50,000 annually for both residents and nonresidents.

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Work Hard, Play Hard
"I was constantly impressed with the caliber of the student body," says a student in a survey conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek, "and with the number of opportunities available to students professionally and socially."

Those opportunities include more than 500 clubs and organizations that are on campus and open to graduate students. Club topics range from the Systems Thinking Society to the Mocha Movers Dance Squad. MIT, with 33 varsity sports, also sponsors the largest NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletic program in the country.

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City Life
MIT students often enjoy exploring greater Boston, which is less than five miles away and within easy reach by public transportation. From internationally renowned arts organizations to small experimental groups, Boston offers the students attending more than 50 colleges and universities in the area a chance to explore music, dance, art, and sports. They can take in a Red Sox game, hear the latest offerings at Symphony Hall, or take a jog along the scenic Charles River.

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Top Design
The Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences, pictured above, was designed by architect Frank Gehry and completed in 2004. It is built on the site of MIT's legendary Building 20, a "temporary" timber-framed building constructed during World War II that served as a breeding ground for many of the ideas born at MIT, including some fundamental advances in areas as diverse as electromagnetism and the origins of language. Its striking design—featuring tilting towers, many-angled walls, and whimsical shapes—is meant to challenge many of the conventional ideas about laboratory and campus buildings.

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Flexible Curriculum
Through the first-semester core, students build the foundation of their MIT Sloan education. Working with a highly diverse team of five or six classmates, they gain fundamental skills through required course work in economics, accounting, managerial communication, business statistics, and organizational processes, as well as an elective in either strategic marketing or finance.

Only one semester long, the core allows students flexibility in pursuing individual interests throughout the rest of their time at Sloan. Some of the electives recently added to the full-time program include Strategic Opportunities in Energy, Enabling an Energy-Efficient Society, and Financial Crises.

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Research Materials
MBA and undergraduate students at Sloan have the Dewey library to turn to for research and study. It is one of the five major libraries serving the MIT community and the primary library for Sloan and its Economics and Political Science departments. More than 200 individual study spaces and 12 group study rooms are available for student use. The library’s collection contains more than 300,000 volumes in management and social sciences. The library subscribes to nearly 3,000 journals and serials, including more than 80 databases.

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Undergraduate Programs
The undergraduate degree offered at Sloan is also a top-ranked and competitive program. The B.S. in Management Science is one of the most popular majors at Sloan.

Only about 11 percent of applicants to MIT are accepted, and about 200 of those students go on to study at the Sloan school. In recent years, about 90 percent of the incoming freshman graduated with a high-school GPA of 3.75 or higher. The annual tuition for both residents and nonresidents is nearly $40,000.

On average, about 40 percent of the undergraduate business students are female and 7 percent are international.

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First-rate Faculty
More than 100 faculty members, about 70 of them tenured, work with the students at Sloan. Most professors remain active in their fields of expertise while at Sloan. For instance, Anjali Sastry, pictured above right, is a senior lecturer in system dynamics. Her current research addresses health systems in settings where resources are limited, and she collaborates closely with colleagues in global health delivery on field research, case development, and novel teaching approaches.

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Movers and Shakers
The MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference, now in its second year at Sloan, brings together video gaming professionals to discuss their most pressing business challenges. Pictured above are Dennis Fu (right), MBA '09, and Ken Levine of 2K Boston during a question-and-answer session at last year’s conference.

The conference is just one of many such gatherings that take place at Sloan throughout the year. The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative brings experts to MIT to address topics that include poverty, public health, and global climate change. Top current and former executives, such as Indra Nooyi of Pepsico (PEP), Anne Mulcahy of Xerox (XRX), and Orit Gadiesh of Bain & Co., visit the MIT campus frequently as part of the Dean's Innovative Leader Speakers Series.