MIT is a top rated college in the US. This institution was ranked the second best college in the US a few years ago.

On top of that, the school has graduated some of the most successful individuals the world has ever seen.

From world class architects to renowned  CEOs to scientists of all sorts, find below some of the most successful alumni of the school.

Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke got his Ph.D. in economics at MIT sometime in 1979. He published his dissertation entitled, "Long-term Commitments, Dynamic Optimization, and the Business Cycle."

Before he went on to become the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan got his Masters of Science through the Sloan Fellows program at MIT's Sloan School of Management sometime in 1972.

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The Khan Academy founder Salman Khan wasn't only the president of his senior class, but earned three degrees while he was at MIT: two bachelor's degrees — one in math, one in electrical engineering/computer science — and a masters in electrical engineering in 1998.

Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin at some point rejected a scholarship to MIT as an undergrad but went back to the institution where he got a doctorate degree in astronautics in 1963. His degree dissertation was titled, "Line-of-sight Guidance Techniques for Manned Orbital Rendezvous."

Did you know that CIT Group CEO and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain was part of  the Delta Upsilon fraternity and got his first degree in electrical engineering from MIT?Currently, Thain is on the MIT Corporation Board and on the Dean’s Advisory Council of MIT/Sloan School of Management.

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