You've claimed that Harvard "absolutely dominates" MIT in law, but MIT doesn't have a law school.
If the other team doesn't even show up, the team that does gets the W.
If the other team doesn't even show up, the team that does gets the W.
In short, I don't think a law school matters enough from a research perspective to factor here. The med school thing does, though.
The only university with top research programs in essentially everything is Stanford. If you allow UCSF to stand in for Berkeley's med school (which you can't really), then UCB/UCSF would be the other one.
While Harvard is an exceptional research institution, I think it falls just a little too far short of Stanford and Berkeley in engineering and applied science to qualify as the top research institution.
MIT and Harvard solve this by partnering together for HST.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%E2%80%93MIT_Division_of...
While Harvard is an exceptional research institution, I think it falls just a little too far short of Stanford and Berkeley in engineering and applied science to qualify as the top research institution.
... all of which would be hard-pressed to try to claim that they deserve that title more than MIT.