<p>This may be one of those instances where size counts. By the time you consider everything as a whole, MIT and Caltech rank pretty closely on quality scales. But look how many more students MIT graduates and sends out into the world each year?</p>
<p>This isn’t meant to be a criticism of what Caltech is doing. They are just more tech school boutique sized, kind of like Harvey Mudd of the Claremont School Consortium.</p>