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All sources current as of June, 2009.

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Year that MIT was founded : 1861

Source: MIT Facts

Year that MIT announced its global vision statement : 1861

Source: MIT's Mission to Serve the World

Member states in the United Nations : 192

Source: United Nations Member States

Number of those countries with McDonald's Franchises : 103

Source: Annual Report of the McDonald's Corporation

Number of countries where MIT has academic partners : 115

Source: MIT Global

Active companies founded by MIT graduates : 25,800

Source: Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT

People employed in these companies, worldwide : 3.3 million

Source: Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT

Hours logged by MIT astronauts in outer space : 14,923

Source: The MIT NASA Roster

Number of them circling the globe this academic year : 6

Source: MIT Alums in Space

Chances that an MIT student hails from a foreign country : 1 in 3

Source: MIT International Students Office

Gross domestic product of a "nation" formed by businesses started by MIT graduates : $2 trillion

Source: Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT

World rank of this GDP, which is roughly equivalent to that of Brazil : 10th

Source: CIA World Factbook

Laptops given away to Brazilian children through One Laptop Per Child, a program launched at MIT : 2,600

Source: One Laptop Per Child

Year that MIT perfected radar technology in order to save lives during World War II : 1940

Source: "Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory," IEEE History Center

Year that MIT used radar to save the lives of cancer patients in the U.S., Canada, and Germany : 2000

Source: MIT News Office

Coca-Cola beverages consumed in the world, daily : 1 billion

Source: Coca-Cola Annual Review

Number of people who lack access to safe drinking water : 1 billion

Source: The World Health Organization

Countries served by H2O 1B, an MIT effort to provide safe drinking water for 1 billion people : 12

Source: MIT H20 1B

Year that the term "globalization" first appeared in print : 1983

Source: Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School Scholar

Approximate growth in the world's college student population since then : 50 million

Source: National Science Foundation

In 2020, the projected number of college students living in India and China, respectively : 139 million, 109 million

Source: National Science Foundation

Approximate number of colleges that will need to be built to accommodate them : 2,500

Source: National Science Foundation

Year MIT announced OpenCourseWare (OCW) to share its knowledge with the world : 2001

Source: The New York Times

MIT management courses adopted as national curriculum standards in China, to date : 3

Source:

Year that former MIT Vice President Vannevar Bush predicted that the Internet would connect the world : 1945

Source: The Atlantic, "As We May Think"

Year MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee invented it : 1989

Source: Original Proposal of Tim Berners-Lee to CERN, "Information Management: A Proposal"

Chances that MIT will connect people with the ideas of the future : 10 in 10

Source: MIT Commencement Address by Muhammad Yunus