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<p>MIT has a much greater set of general education requirements which ensure, to a much greater extent than most schools, that its graduates (of all majors) have a well rounded liberal arts education, so that they have had to think in both mathematical/logical ways and humanistic/social ways. Yes, even literature and history majors at MIT have to take multivariable calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology (“real” versions, not “for poets” versions).</p>