MIT is outclassed by very few schools in almost any of its strongpoints. MIT isn’t just a technology school; the economics program is generally considered to be among the best, including the London School of Economics, University of Chicago, and Harvard.
There are some other schools that are nearly as prestigious if not more in certain fields. For example, in computer science there are some schools like Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon that are ranked better on many scales.
Carnegie Mellon has pioneered a lot of important fields in computer science today and represent most of the best faculty—machine learning, language programming, human-computer interaction, etc. The school of computer science has contributed many of the most significant contributions to the field over the past 50 years.
In all, how exactly is one school more “technological” than another? Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
@gggritso The University of Waterloo is excellent for engineering and computer science, but I have found few lists that don’t rank Toronto better.