List of presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has had 20 presidents (18 inaugurated, 1 acting then inaugurated, 1 acting) in its 163-year history.


 * William Barton Rogers (1862–1870, 1879–1881)
 * John Daniel Runkle (1870–1878)
 * Francis Amasa Walker (1881–1897)
 * James Crafts (1897–1900)
 * Henry Smith Pritchett (1900–1907)
 * Arthur Amos Noyes (acting 1907–1909)
 * Richard Cockburn Maclaurin (1909–1920)
 * Elihu Thomson (acting 1920–1921, 1922–1923)
 * Ernest Fox Nichols (1921–1922)
 * Samuel Wesley Stratton (1923–1930)
 * Karl Taylor Compton (1930–1948)
 * James Rhyne Killian (1948–1959)
 * Julius Adams Stratton (1959–1966)
 * Howard Wesley Johnson (1966–1971)
 * Jerome Wiesner (1971–1980)
 * Paul Edward Gray (1980–1990)
 * Charles Marstiller Vest (1990–2004)
 * Susan Hockfield (2004–2012)
 * L. Rafael Reif (2012–2022)
 * Sally Kornbluth (Jan. 1, 2023 – Present)