California Institute of Technology (Caltech), founded in 1891, is located in Pasadena, northeast suburb of Los Angeles, California, the United States. It is the world’s top private research university and a member of the Union of Pacific Rim Universities. It is recognized as one of the most typical elite universities.There are only about 2,000 students in the university. As of October 2019, 74 alumni, professors and researchers have won the Nobel Prize (ranking the eighth in the world). On average, one out of every 1,000 graduates has won the Prize, which is the highest number of Nobel Prizes in the world.
Six Turing Award winners (ninth in the world) and four Fields Medal winners (16th in the world).From 2012 to 2016, Caltech ranked first in The Times Higher Education World University rankings for five consecutive years. In 2019-20, Caltech ranked second.
In addition, in 2019-20, Caltech was ranked fifth in the QS World University Rankings, sixth in the USNews World University Rankings, and ninth in the Soft Sciences World University Rankings.Caltech is the world’s most ivory tower, the highest per capita research funding, the highest ratio of teachers to students, the highest ratio of students to professors, the highest ratio of academicians and Nobel Prizes among the faculty.
The academic atmosphere here is very strong, the most advantageous thing is that you can often go to the world’s top scholars to listen to the lectures, are the academic frontier, full of all kinds of fantastic ideas.