<p>Sakky. Nice analysis. It probably has more to do with politics than anything. washington DC, and the center of the entire US supposedly being on the east coast.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to the case of regional bias. I consider Cal Tech > MIT as a research institution in the sciences. Sure MIT has social sciences now too, but if you want to compare MIT as a complete school, its social sciences are inferior to Berkeley’s, while their sciences are about the same.</p>