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PLEASE, NO ADMISSIONS QUESTIONS! This sub is a community for students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss all aspects of MIT. There is a separate sub for admissions questions: r/MITAdmissions.

43k subscribers103 posts / mo in Sep 202699 authors / mosince 2008

r/mit has 43k members (+18% over the last 12 months). It gets about 103 posts a month from 99 people. Top topics: MIT Admissions & Applications, Summer Sublets and University Debates & Diversity.

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Size and growth

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+18%in 12 months · +4.0% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 202643k
Growing43k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−41%vs Sep 2025 · −37% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026103
QuieterPeaked at 244 in Aug 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

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Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. MIT Admissions & Applications7.7%
  2. Summer Sublets1.7%
  3. University Debates & Diversity1.7%
  4. Graduate Student Housing1.4%
  5. Harvard Waitlist & Admits1.1%

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research