[dagw]

I completed harder math courses than that in my non-MIT education.

Just looking at the curriculum doesn't really tell you anything useful. How well the material is taught and to what depth matters much more. Something simple like "learn matrix multiplication and determinants" could either be covered in 45 minutes or take up several lectures going deeper and deeper into the subtleties of what those things actually mean on a fundamental mathematical level.

Then there is of course the personal additions a lecturer can add to each course beyond the curriculum, which in many cases can be more interesting and educational than anything on the curriculum itself. Basically you can have a dozen lecturers covering the same curriculum using the same textbook and get a dozen very different educational experiences. You can probably, to a lesser extent, even have the same lecturer lecture to a dozen different groups of students and get a dozen different outcomes.

That being said I have no idea if MIT is actually better in this regard