<p>Oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean Caltech is ‘equal’ to MIT in engineering. What I mean is that when we compare both school in a particular dept, let’s say electrical engineering, MIT is always more extensive than Caltech. As you perhaps know, in electrical engineering dept. itself, there’re various researches with different specialities. My previous post stated that while for a specific research they share in common they have similar strength, MIT has much more research and specialization, even when we count only electrical engineering. To put it bluntly, in EE, Caltech has only about 11 professors while MIT has about, ehmm so many (more than 40). The NRC report in fact takes the average performance in each dept, e.g. electrical engineering, to make a ranking list in the corresponding dept. </p>
<p>On the other hand I agree with you that MIT is more engineering where Caltech is more science.</p>