 As of 2015 , 85 Nobel laureates , 52 National Medal of Science recipients , 65 Marshall Scholars , 45 Rhodes Scholars , 38 MacArthur Fellows , 34 astronauts , 19 Turing award winners , and 6 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with MIT . The school has a strong entrepreneurial culture , and the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would rank as the eleventh @-@ largest economy in the world . 
