MIT doesn't have research claims, it has professors and graduate students who do research. As an elite institution that is hungry for research grant dollars, it

MIT doesn't have research claims, it has professors and graduate students who do research. As an elite institution that is hungry for research grant dollars, it attracts top researchers that often do excellent research but not always. What human being would even be qualified to judge the research output of a large research university across all fields? A research university is an umbrella under which hundreds of independent teams perform research. You can do journal metrics, but those have a long latency, you are measuring performance 2 to 10 years in the past, and such metrics are not without bias.