More than 30 student religious groups on campus help give MIT a vibrant religious life.

Religious life

Providing opportunities for religious involvement is part of MIT’s commitment to educating and meeting the needs of the whole person.

MIT students are gifted in their ability to use science to solve problems, but they also have questions that are not resolved by scientific theory or mathematical formula. They look to science for some answers, and to faith for others.

The Religious Activities Center — which, with the MIT Chapel, is at the heart of religious life on campus — is one place where students find enlightenment in faith. In addition to its most basic mission of providing opportunities for religious involvement, the Center also strives to —

  • Provide students with opportunities to offer service to others;
  • bring people of different faiths together into one MIT community; and
  • encourage students to grow in their own religious traditions and to interact with those of other traditions.

To discuss a special gift to support religious life opportunities for MIT students, please contact Robert Randolph, chaplain to the Institute, at randolph@mit.edu or 617.258.5484.

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