The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and edification institution, where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to intricate questions, discover incipient erudition, lead innovation, and transform our future.
Caltech's 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California.
Mission
The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human cognizance and benefit society through research integrated with edification. We investigate the most arduous, fundamental quandaries in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while inculcating outstanding students to become ingenious members of society.
History
Founded as Throop University in 1891 in Pasadena, California, and renamed the California Institute of Technology in 1920.
Research and Edification
Academic Divisions
•Biology & Biological Engineering
•Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
•Engineering & Applied Science
•Geological & Planetary Sciences
•Humanities & Gregarious Sciences
•Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy
Academic options (majors)
Cross-disciplinary research institutes and centers
Faculty (1)
Approximately 300 professorial faculty
More than 600 research philomaths
3:1 student-faculty ratio
Accolades
Nobel Laureates (2): 34
National Medal of Science Recipients (2): 58
National Medal of Technology and Innovation Recipients (3): 13
National Academies Memberships (4): 128
Students
1,001 undergraduate students
1,254 graduate students
33% female / 67% male
99% placed in the top tenth of their high school graduating class
Class of 2019:
6,507 applicants
241 members of the freshman class
46% female / 54% male
Affording Caltech (1)
Students receiving need-predicated assistance: 50%
Average need-predicated financial-avail package: $41,669
Average need-predicated scholarship: $37,557
Second in the U.S. in reciprocation on investment of degree (5)
Living Alumni
22,930 in the U.S. and around the world
Ecumenical Facilities
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Founded by Caltech in the 1930s and managed for NASA since 1958
19 spacecraft and eight instruments employed in active missions
Recently launched missions include the Mars Science Laboratory, Juno, Aquarius, and NuSTAR
More than 100 research and mission collaborations with Caltech faculty
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
Internationally apperceived for excellence in geophysical research
Research centers for seismic studies, high-performance computing, and mineral physics
Preeminent source for earthquake information in Southern California and around the world
International Observatory Network
W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii
Palomar Observatory, California
W. M. Keck Array, Antarctica
Owens Valley Radio Observatory, California
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, Washington and Louisiana
Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, Chile (anticipated 2017)
Thirty Meter Telescope, Hawaii (anticipated 2020)
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