List of presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has had 20 presidents (18 inaugurated, 1 acting then inaugurated, 1 acting) in its 163-year history (as of 2024).

MIT Presidents
#Term(s)NameTerm Years(s)
11, 3 William Barton Rogers (1862–1870, 1879–1881)
22 John Daniel Runkle (1870–1878)
34 Francis Amasa Walker (1881–1897)
45 James Crafts (1897–1900)
56 Henry Smith Pritchett (1900–1907)
6 Arthur Amos Noyes (acting 1907–1909)
77 Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909–1920)
89 Elihu Thomson (acting 1920–1921, 1922–1923)
98 Ernest Fox Nichols (1921–1922)
1010 Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923–1930)
1111 Karl Taylor Compton (1930–1948)
1212 James Rhyne Killian (1948–1959)
1313 Julius Adams Stratton (1959–1966)
1414 Howard Wesley Johnson (1966–1971)
1515 Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980)
1616 Paul Edward Gray (1980–1990)
1717 Charles Marstiller Vest (1990–2004)
1818 Susan Hockfield (2004–2012)
1919 L. Rafael Reif (2012–2022)
2020 Sally Kornbluth (Jan. 1, 2023 – Present)


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