California Institute of Technology Location The

California Institute of Technology

Location • The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech ) is a private research university located in Pasadena, California , United States.

Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering. Its 124 acre (50 ha) primary campus is located approximately 11 mi (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Students • Caltech enrolled 997 undergraduate students and 1246 graduate students for the 2012– 2013 school year. Women made up 38% of the undergraduate and 29% of the graduate student body.

Undergraduate program • The full-time, four-year undergraduate program emphasizes instruction in the arts and sciences and has high graduate coexistence. [ 47 ] Caltech offers 24 majors (called "options") and six minors across all six academic divisions. [ 61 ] Caltech also offers interdisciplinary programs in Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Computation and Neural Systems, Control and Dynamical Systems, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geobiology and Astrobiology, Geochemistry, and Planetary Astronomy.

Alumni The Turing Award , the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science", has been awarded to six alumni, and one has won the Fields Medal. Other alumni have turned their gaze to the universe. C. Gordon Fullerton (BS 1957, MS 1958) piloted the third space shuttle mission and orbited the earth in Skylab. Astronaut (and later, United States Senator) Harrison Schmitt (BS 1957) was the only geologist to have ever walked on the surface of the moon.

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