 As of 2013 , MIT had 1 @,@ 030 faculty members , of whom 225 were women . Faculty are responsible for lecturing classes , advising both graduate and undergraduate students , and sitting on academic committees , as well as conducting original research . Between 1964 and 2009 , a total of seventeen faculty and staff members affiliated with MIT were awarded Nobel Prizes ( thirteen in the last 25 years ) . MIT faculty members past or present have won a total of twenty @-@ seven Nobel Prizes , the majority in Economics or Physics . As of October 2013 , among current faculty and teaching staff there are 67 Guggenheim Fellows , 6 Fulbright Scholars , and 22 MacArthur Fellows . Faculty members who have made extraordinary contributions to their research field as well as the MIT community are granted appointments as Institute Professors for the remainder of their tenures . 
