List of presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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|lc=yes}}).

No. ! Term	Image	Name	Term starts
class="wikitable" \|+ MIT Presidents
1 \| 1	70px	William Barton Rogers	1862 \|1870 \|
2 \| 2	70px	John Daniel Runkle	1870 \|1878 \|
– \|3 \|70px \|William Barton Rogers \|1879 \|1881 \|
3 \| 4	70px	Francis Amasa Walker	1881 \|1897 \|
4 \| 5	70px	James Crafts	1897 \|1900 \|
5 \| 6	70px	Henry Smith Pritchett	1900 \|1907
bgcolor="#e6e6aa" \| colspan="2" \|acting	70px	Arthur Amos Noyes	1907 \|1909 \|
6 \| 7	70px	Richard Cockburn Maclaurin	1909 \|1920 \|
bgcolor="#e6e6aa" \| colspan="2" \|acting	70px	Elihu Thomson	1920 \|1921 \|
7 \| 8	70px	Ernest Fox Nichols	1921 \|1922 \|
bgcolor="#e6e6aa" \| colspan="2" \|acting \|70px \|Elihu Thomson \|1922 \|1923 \|
8 \| 9	70px	Samuel Wesley Stratton	1923 \|1930 \|
9 \| 10	70px	Karl Taylor Compton	1930 \|1948 \|
10 \| 11	70px	James Rhyne Killian	1948 \|1959 \|
11 \| 12	70px	Julius Adams Stratton	1959 \|1966 \|
12 \| 13	70px	Howard Wesley Johnson	1966 \|1971 \|
13 \| 14	70px	Jerome Wiesner	1971 \|1980 \|
14 \| 15	70px	Paul Edward Gray	1980 \|1990 \|
15 \| 16	70px	Charles Marstiller Vest	1990 \|2004 \|
16 \| 17	70px	Susan Hockfield	December 6, 2004 \|July 1, 2012 \|{{cite news \|url=https://news.mit.edu/2004/president-announcement \|title=Dr. Susan Hockfield \|date=August 26, 2004 \|work=MIT News \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}{{cite news \|url=https://news.mit.edu/2012/hockfield-0216 \|title=Susan Hockfield to step down \|first=Nate \|last=Nickerson \|work=MIT News \|date=February 16, 2012 \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}
17 \| 18	70px	L. Rafael Reif	July 2, 2012 \|December 31, 2022 \|{{cite news \|url=https://news.mit.edu/2012/rafael-reif-elected-president-0516 \|title=L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president \|first=Steve \|last=Bradt \|work=MIT News \|date=May 16, 2012 \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}{{cite news \|url=https://news.mit.edu/2022/rafael-reif-to-step-down-mit-president-0210 \|title=L. Rafael Reif to step down as MIT president \|first=Steve \|last=Bradt \|work=MIT News \|date=February 10, 2022 \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}
18 \| 19	70px	Sally Kornbluth	January 1, 2023 \|Incumbent \|{{cite news \|url=https://news.mit.edu/2022/sally-kornbluth-named-MIT-president-1020 \|title=Sally Kornbluth is named as MIT’s 18th president \|first=Steve \|last=Bradt \|work=MIT News \|date=October 20, 2022 \|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}

source{{cite web |url=https://facts.mit.edu/leadership/ |title=Leadership |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}

References

Category:Lists of people by university or college in Massachusetts

Category:Lists of university and college leaders

*Presidents