 MIT has five schools ( Science , Engineering , Architecture and Planning , Management , and Humanities , Arts , and Social Sciences ) and one college ( Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology ) , but no schools of law or medicine . While faculty committees assert substantial control over many areas of MIT 's curriculum , research , student life , and administrative affairs , the chair of each of MIT 's 32 academic departments reports to the dean of that department 's school , who in turn reports to the Provost under the President . The current president is L. Rafael Reif , who formerly served as provost under President Susan Hockfield , the first woman to hold the post . 
