Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science

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The MIT School of Science is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The School, which consolidated under the leadership of Karl Taylor Compton in 1932, is composed of 6 academic departments who grant SB, SM, and PhD or ScD degrees; as well as a number of affiliated laboratories and centers. As of 2020^[update], the Dean of Science is Professor Nergis Mavalvala.^[1] With approximately 275 faculty members, 1100 graduate students, 700 undergraduate majors, 500 postdocs, and 400 research staff, the School is the second largest at MIT.^[2] As of 2019^[update], 12 faculty members and 14 alumni of the School have won Nobel Prizes.^[2]