What are the differences between Harvard and MIT?

Harvard is NCAA D-1 in athletics and MIT is NCAA D-3 (except women's crew). That will make a Huge difference to the twenty percent of the undergraduates at both MIT and Harvard that play an intercollegiate sport. read more

MIT and Harvard students can take courses at each other's campuses. We scrimmage each other in sports prior to the start of the season. There is the famous MIT-Harvard joint MD-PhD program. Many of the bio-tech research facilities are joint. For years the Harvard ROTC students trained at MIT. read more

A2A. Others have already answer this question, so I will focus on the academics. From an academic perspective, the researchers and the students are the differences because Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT as all academically on the same level. read more

A huge proportion of MIT students are interested, as the name of the school implies, in engineering/science. If undergraduate research is not important to you, then I can safely say that the engineering/science departments in both schools are on the same level. read more