Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) is an engineering institute located in Chromepet, Chennai, India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was established in 1949 by Chinnaswami Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country and later merged with Anna University. The institute was among the first educational institutions in India to offer new areas of specialization, such as aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering and instrumentation technology. Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first self-financing institute opened in India.

Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) is also among the institutes in India that offer postgraduate courses in Avionics and Mechatronics. The institute has a unique practice of "T numbers" that facilitates mentoring of students by their respective seniors.

Established in 1949, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) initially offered three-year diploma courses (DMIT) in Engineering for Science graduates (B.Sc.). After Anna University was established in 1978, Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) became one of the constituent institutions of the university. After this merging, three-year B.Tech. Degree courses were offered to B.Sc. graduates. Over the years, the institute has expanded its original programmes. Presently, it provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Production Engineering, Rubber and Plastics Technology, Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology. Since 1996, the institute has accepted students who have passed the 12th board examinations for its four-year undergraduate programme.

After India's independence, the need for establishing engineering institutions to propel the industrial development in the country was felt by Chinnaswami Rajam. To establish an institution, Rajam sought the support of distinguished citizens including Subbaraya Aiyar, M.K. Ranganathan, L.Venkatakrishna Iyer, K.Srinivasan and C.R. Srinivasan. He also received generous donations from the industries as well as the public. In July 1949, he founded Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) under the University of Madras.

Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) is a constituent college of Anna University and is governed by the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Registrar of the Anna university. The varsity has a syndicate. The Dean is the head of the institute and oversees day-to-day administration. Each department is led by a Head of the Department (HOD). The hostels are headed by assistant executive wardens placed under an executive warden with Dean as the ex-officio warden.

The academic policies are decided by the course committee that is headed by a chairman. All the professors and student representatives are its members.

Madras Institute of Technology follows the choice based credit system(CBCS) of performance evaluation and student-teacher relation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. Each semester, the students are graded by taking a weighted average of all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across semesters.

Currently, the admission to the institute is through the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions process based on a Unified Single Window Admission System for the first year of undergraduate courses. Till 2006, TNPCEE was also a mandatory qualification examination along with the Higher Secondary examination.