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 (as of 2024).

MIT Presidents
No. Term Name Term starts Term ends
1 1 William Barton Rogers 1862 1870
2 2 John Daniel Runkle 1870 1878
– 3 William Barton Rogers 1879 1881
3 4 Francis Amasa Walker 1881 1897
4 5 James Crafts 1897 1900
5 6 Henry Smith Pritchett 1900 1907
acting Arthur Amos Noyes 1907 1909
6 7 Richard Cockburn Maclaurin 1909 1920
acting Elihu Thomson 1920 1921
7 8 Ernest Fox Nichols 1921 1922
acting Elihu Thomson 1922 1923
8 9 Samuel Wesley Stratton 1923 1930
9 10 Karl Taylor Compton 1930 1948
10 11 James Rhyne Killian 1948 1959
11 12 Julius Adams Stratton 1959 1966
12 13 Howard Wesley Johnson 1966 1971
13 14 Jerome Wiesner 1971 1980
14 15 Paul Edward Gray 1980 1990
15 16 Charles Marstiller Vest 1990 2004
16 17 Susan Hockfield 2004 2012
17 18 L. Rafael Reif 2012 2022
18 19 Sally Kornbluth 2023 Incumbent