MIT Campus Guided Walking Tour
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Cambridge, USA
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- 1 hour 10 minutes (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Walk the quads of the campus that inspired astronauts, Nobel Peace Prize winners, and famed innovators in just about every discipline on a student-led tour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Get an inside look on what it’s like to attend the prestigious university and hear real stories about what makes MIT special.
- Perfect for prospective students and fans of acad
- Learn what it’s like to attend the prestigious university from a student guide
- Discounts for kids and seniors are available
- Choose from multiple tour times to suit your schedule
What's Included
- 70-Minute Historic Walking Tour of MIT
- MIT Student-Led Tour Guide
- Illustrated map of MIT and Kendall Square
- Learn about MIT History & Culture, as well as famous MIT Alumni
- See top sites including MIT, Charles River, Strata Center, and Kendall Square
- Tour ends at the MIT COOP - the best place for souvenirs
- Gratuities
- Souvenirs
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Marriott Hotel, 255 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Meet outside of the main Red line subway stop at Kendall Square, on the same side of the street as the Marriott Hotel. Look for our managers with straw hats near the Chipotle restaurant.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Make your way to the heart of the MIT campus at Kendall Square. Meet your guide and a group of roughly 30 people for a walking tour of campus, learning about MIT history as well as students’ personal experiences as you go.
Pass by campus landmarks including the historic Great Dome, the 825-foot long (251 meter) Infinite Corridor, and the 720,000-square-foot Stata Center, and learn about campus culture, like the old tradition of pranks, called “hacks.”
This tour is geared toward visiting students, vacationing families, and returning alum alike.
Pass by campus landmarks including the historic Great Dome, the 825-foot long (251 meter) Infinite Corridor, and the 720,000-square-foot Stata Center, and learn about campus culture, like the old tradition of pranks, called “hacks.”
This tour is geared toward visiting students, vacationing families, and returning alum alike.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1 hour 10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Kendall Square (Pass By)
Stata Center (Pass By)
Great Dome (Pass By)
Charles River (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Make sure to wear comfortable shoes
- Tour route is less than 1 mile
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Street parking and parking garages available
- Tour is wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 30 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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We got a very informative tour with our guide, Shaykh (sp?). It was so interesting to learn about MITs history and understand the culture. Shaykh gave us a great view of what being a student at MIT is like which is why we selected this student-lead tour. This is definitely worth doing!
Shaikh is an amazing guide. She walked us around campus and filled us in on everything from the history of MIT, student life, class load, and even some fun trivia. She was accommodating of ones in our group with ADA needs.
10/10. Would recommend.
Our guide was very informative and patient. We enjoyed seeing all of the campus art exhibits and hearing about the history of MIT.
It is a fantastic experience to visit MIT and we luckily had a very amazing tour guide. Highly recommended if one visits Boston Area.
Overview of history, buildings and laboratories combined with funny stories while walking through the campus.
Very entertaining and interesting.
Our tour guide was great but this tour was way overbooked. Tours should not be this large—I think we had 40+ ppl. No one could hear anything, it was cumbersome to get around, and I felt we spent more time trying to navigate and figure out how to position ourselves to hear the guide vs actually taking in the tour. Please stop overbooking your tours. It’s not fair to the tour guides or to the visitors.
The tour was even better than I’ve imagined it’d be. We get to actually enter the MIT building and see its labs and classrooms. The guide, Austin, was great and gave us so many interesting infos. I recommend it 100%.
The MIT Tour was informative and enjoyable. Unfortunately sometimes hard to hear the guide. Mostly tour of outside buildings with limited access inside. Great overview.
Inside view MIT and history of buildings
Relevant for people outside USA and with affinity with tech
Excellent tour. Reuben was an engaging tour guide. Loved seeing the insides of buildings and classrooms and hearing everything from a student perspective. My husband and I plan to retire in a few years, so we’re not college age at all, but at the end of the tour we thought - we should get a degree from MIT in retirement lol. Inspiring tour.
The tour guide did not arrive and the tour did not happen. No one talked to us about getting a refund.
Response from Host, Oct 2025
Hello--we're sorry to hear about your experience! We sent everyone an email, but because you booked through a third party, it might have gotten lost along the way. Please reach out and we will process your refund as soon as possible!!
Tour was largely about student activities and experiences. Enjoyed hearing about MIT contributions to science and humanity. Tour guide included personal anecdotes as well
Very informative tour of the history and campus! Austin (Our tour guide) knew countless facts about MIT and did a great job of answering questions.
Great experience, funny, interactive, informative. Highly recommended to get a general overview of the MIT history and buildings
MIT is something special and the guide was the perfect fit. He really let you feel the MIT Vibe. What it takes to be part of MIT and the history of the University. A must visit to give you a feeling of what it is that make MIT so special. The guide himself was so enthusiastic about all the studies and gave so much insight that he makes you want to attend MIT.
Our tour guide was amazing. His name was Ruben, he was funny, informative, and energetic. We learned so much during our tour and my son got inspired and now talking about going to MIT when he grows up. Definitely recommend this tour if you are going to Boston
Chris was great. Very good information. It was a very hot day though. Be ready to walk a lot along with hat, sunglasses and Water.
Wow! I did not expect this tour to be so phenomenal. Ruben was an amazing tour guide who was super knowledgeable, engaging and personable. I loved that we also got to go into so many buildings at MIT. I thought the Harvard tour was great, but this was so much better.
The tour was very, very good. The instructor was a current student so he knew the detailed experiences of student life. He also knew the history and traditions of MIT.
The your guide was very knowledgeable and ready to answer any and all questions the group had. Highly recommend.
I’ve been on many walking tours and this is the largest group so far…over 50 people. I expected the group to be smaller based on the price per person. Given the group size, it’s hard to get close enough to hear the guide. Unless they limit the group size to about 25, I wouldn’t recommend this tour.
Response from Host, Jul 2025
Hi--thank you for the review! We're sorry that you found the group too big, and we will take this into consideration as we work to provide the best possible tours,
Our tour guide was excellent, very knowledgeable about the history of the university, and he gave us some good laughs as well. He was very engaging.
Walking tour through parts of MIT campus. The tour giver was very nice, but unfortunately we couldn’t hear most of the tour lecture. A guided tour is a good, but would be better if the guide had a way of amplifying her voice so the whole group could hear.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hello--thank you for the review! We're sorry you couldn't hear well--unfortunately, in compliance with university and city policy, microphones and other forms of voice amplification is not allowed.
Great overview over the buildings, the campus, hacking and the spirit of MIT. Lots of geeky fun stories getly explained to Non-MIT people. The only aspect I’m sorry about is that I haven’t done this earlier.
Our flight was delayed 12 hours. I tired to make contact with the tour operator to see if they could change the times from both the MIT and Harvard tours. I never got a response from the Tour operator.
We attended the MIT tour on a cold day, resulting in a private tour. This provided an excellent opportunity to ask any questions we had. The guide was friendly and took us inside some campus buildings. We observed some student exhibitions, which I found intriguing as it provided insight into MIT student culture. Overall, we had a positive experience and highly recommend this tour.
Maggie did a great job on the tour, she was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable for a freshment student
Vic is an incredible tour guide! Learned so much about MIT’s history and student life. Highly recommend!
I had a disable family member with myself so Uber showed up 15 minutes late i messaged the tour coordinator informed that i will be late around 15 minutes but no answer , so could i Please request my money back ? it was totally out of my control since we were new to Boston and its uber
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Hello--we're sorry to hear about this experience and would happy to provide a refund. Because you booked through Viator, you need to go to your bookings portal and request a refund as we cannot issue your refund directly. Please reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.
Great guide, easy going, answered every question. Or guide Austin, presented our group with lots of information, in the most enjoyable way.
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