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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT is a research university that advances knowledge and educates students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship. It serves students and researchers globally, conducting work across engineering, life sciences, energy, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing that the site describes as advancing national security, economic competitiveness, and quality of life.
We withhold an authority number until independent evidence (global rank, link-graph presence) has accrued. The facts we do have about this site are shown below — we'd rather say “not enough signals yet” than invent a low score.
Safety evidence
Retained threat-feed result (recorded about 25 days ago); name-similarity check available (recorded about 13 days ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded about 13 days ago). This is evidence coverage, not a probability that a website is safe.
No caution flags in the available scoring observations; this is not a complete safety assessment
Site history
Dated record — historical facts always carry their date; self-description below is the 2018 record.
2006
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 21, 2006); profile edited 26 times through 2018.
2018
Self-description at the time:
“MIT.edu is important website for courses in engineering and science.”