 Prominent institutions of higher education have been led by MIT alumni , including the University of California system , Harvard University , New York Institute of Technology , Johns Hopkins University , Carnegie Mellon University , Tufts University , Rochester Institute of Technology , Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ) , Northeastern University , Lahore University of Management Sciences , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , <unk> de Monterrey , Purdue University , Virginia Polytechnic Institute , <unk> , and Quaid @-@ e @-@ Azam University . Berklee College of Music , the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world , was founded and led by MIT alumnus Lawrence Berk for more than three decades . 
