MIT FSILG History
Many MIT fraternities are located in Boston because the Institute was originally located in the Back Bay neighborhood, and had no dormitories to house its students.
MIT moved to its current Cambridge campus in 1916, and newer independent living groups have sprouted up or moved in around it.
From the 1860s through the first half of the 1900s, MIT students were almost entirely male. In the 2000s, the Institute's undergraduate gender ratio reached nearly 50-50. A period of demographic and political change in the 1960s and 1970s, which followed larger national trends, resulted in the conversion of several all-male, nationally affiliated living groups into local co-ed groups, and led to the expansion of all-female and co-ed housing options.
Read more about this topic: List Of MIT Fraternities, Sororities, And ILGs
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