Reputation and Mission
IIT is only about three miles from the third biggest city Chicago in U.S. As one of America’s top three institutes of technology, IIT has become a private PH.D.-granting university with comprehensive academic programs.
IIT’s mission is: to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, to educate students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment.
Compositive Strength
IIT has four campuses in the center of Chicago. Many of its buildings were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who had laid a foundation for the modern design of architecture.
There are eight main colleges in IIT:
- Armour College of Engineering
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- College of Architecture
- College of Science and Letters
- Institute of Business and Interprofessional Studies
- Institute of Design
- Institute of Psychology
- Stuart School of Business
The abundant subjects and flexible interdisciplinary settings provide the IIT students with a great opportunity to learn a cutting-edge knowledge.
IIT has powerful qualified teachers, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – the father of modern architecture; Laszlo Moholy-Nagy – the founder of Chicago New Bauhaus; Darsh T. Wasan – the world-famous academician in the realm of Chemical Engineering; Patrick Whitney – chairman of America Design Center and so on.
Though being as a technology institute, IIT has cultivated many Nobel Prize laureates. It has also shown its integrated strength in an all-sized subject and cross-discipline.
Besides succeeding in the academic field, IIT has also cultivated many great leaders all over the world in its fine-honored history, whose names are still shining in the world.
Research
IIT has more than 20 research centers in the United States such as biomedical engineering, electrochemical science, food safety, power engineering, polymer science, fluid dynamics and much more. The university and its contract research affiliate, IIT Research Institute (IITRI), have an annual research volume of $130 million.
Many manages of big companies in Chicago are the grads of IIT, such as Motorola, Lucent, Caterpillar, BP, Chicago Bard of Trade, Bank One, Kraft Food, Steelcase and so on. IIT values these precious resources very much and provides its grads with great opportunities for their internship and careers. Besides, IIT often participates in the design and consultation for companies’ big projects.
Education
IIT students come from all over the world – more than 90 countries are represented – to take advantage of the programs in engineering, science, architecture, business, psychology, design, and law. Now it has more than 6000 students and about 4200 of them are postgraduates. The international students take up about 33%.
Many of the students from IIT have devoted a lot to the world. Such as Alumnus Marty Cooper, who is considered to be the inventor and introducer of the cell phone in 1973; Marvin Camras, the father of magnetic recording (perhaps the best known IIT alumnus), started his remarkable career in magnetic recording when he was a junior in electrical engineering and earned 500 patents in advancing his technology, which is the basis for audio and video recording and computer data storage; Lois Graham, the first person who broke through a national glass ceiling in 1959 and so on.
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