MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) is a comprehensive private university focusing on science and engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is a leader in global high-tech research. Its natural and engineering sciences are well-known around the world, and it is also excellent in fields such as management, economics, philosophy, political science, and linguistics. So far, MIT has trained 61 Nobel Prize winners. In the 2014 USNEWS U.S. comprehensive university rankings, MIT was tied for seventh place with Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania.