麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology,常缩写为MIT)是美国一所综合性私立大学。位于麻萨诸塞州的剑桥市,查尔斯河(Charles River)将其与波士顿的后湾区(Back Bay)隔开。今天MIT无论是在美国还是全世界都有重要影响力,培养了众多对世界产生重大影响的人士,是全球高科技和高等研究的先驱领导大学,也是世界理工科菁英的所在地。
Study: suicide rate at MIT is higher than at other schools - News: noteworthy people, programs, funding, and technological advances in the world of higher education
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a number of student deaths resulted in considerable media attention to MIT's culture and student life.[36] After the alcohol-related death of Scott Krueger in September 1997 as a new member at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, MIT began requiring all freshmen to live in the dormitory system.[37] The 2000 suicide of MIT undergraduate Elizabeth Shin drew attention to suicides at MIT and created a controversy over whether MIT had an unusually high suicide rate.[38][39] In late 2001 a task force's recommended improvements in student mental health services[40] were implemented, including expanding staff and operating hours at the mental health center
There is considerable debate as to whether a school's selectivity increases the likelihood of student suicide. The latest round of the debate is being played out in Cambridge, Mass., where Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is in the midst of a $27 million wrongful death suit over the death of a troubled sophomore in April 2000. Media reports have painted a portrait of an institution in the midst of a suicide epidemic. In fact, MIT's suicide rate is below the national average if one adjusts figures for the school's overwhelmingly male student body (看来女生比例高!)