MIT Child Care Centers

Quality early childhood programs have been a feature of campus life since the 1950s, owing to the dedicated efforts of several generations of MIT parents, volunteers, and administrators who established and maintained programs at Eastgate and Westgate on campus and in Lexington near Lincoln Laboratory.

Building on this tradition, MIT has strengthened and expanded its child care services through the construction of a new center at Stata offering infant care; the renovation of existing campus centers; the piloting of a child care cooperative at Westgate; the construction of a new wing in Lexington to double child care capacity; a new partnership with Bright Horizons to manage all MIT child care centers under the name Technology Children's Centers; and the creation of MIT Child Care Scholarship Programs, providing limited assistance to eligible MIT employees, postdocs, and graduate students who are using MIT child care centers.

MIT child care centers are administered through the MIT Center for Work, Family & Personal Life, which has established a Child Care Advisory Committee to provide input from the MIT community on key policy and program matters.

For further information regarding MIT child care, please direct e-mail to the Administrator of Child Care Initiatives at worklife@mit.edu, or call 617-253-1592.