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<p>MIT’s Humanities/Social Science departments have a few departments one could not only major in, but can hold their heads with topflight graduate/research departments of other elite peers (i.e. Economics, Political Science, Philosophy, Linguistics). </p>
<p>On the other hand, Caltech seemed much more of a STEM-focused school with little/no humanities/social science offerings compared with MIT or other more comprehensive universities like Berkeley, UCLA, or Stanford. Something which my Caltech alum cousin and HS classmates confirmed during their time there from the '80s till the late '90s. </p>
<p>On the other hand, Caltech was much more LAC like according to those same alums. From my own observation of MIT’s campus…it does have a feel much closer to a medium-large university than a LAC/small university.</p>