About Caltech University

California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology or Caltech just steadily ranks first in the top ten research universities in the world and competes with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the right to be considered the best technical university in the world.

Story:

Caltech was founded in 1891 by local businessman and philanthropist Amos corpses and first called Technological University corpse. In fact, if it was not a university and a vocational school, and to the status of a prestigious educational institution, he was far away.

That all changed in 1907 when, in Pasadena, a small town in the vicinity of Los Angeles came astronomer named George Hale. He became the director of the local observatory and decided that a small Pasadena could become a center of scientific thought the United States. In those years, America has been a leader in scientific research, and Hale saw a huge potential for development. Georgia Hale managed to attract patrons, on whose money the participants were bought land and built a laboratory.

Due to the Hale arrived at Caltech chemist Arthur Noyes and physicist Robert Millikan. In the early 20th century, it was a very big names in science. Both scientists have become professors at Caltech, and in 1923, Millikan won the Nobel Prize in Physics, which only added to the university points. Caltech fame grew, the university expanded, there were new departments, including geological, biological and Faculty of Aeronautics and from an ordinary technical educational institution Caltech became a respected scientific research centers and prestigious university, what remains to this day.

Programs:

Despite its reputation as one of the world's best technical universities, Caltech - a multi-university, and here you can learn not only the applied sciences, and humanities. However, at the choice of programs in the humanities Caltech inferior to other universities, such as, for example, Yale and Princeton, but on a set of mandatory courses in physical sciences University ahead of the rest: so provides excellent training in basic subjects that need to know all the engineers, physicists , chemists and biologists. The most popular and prestigious specialty at Caltech - a physicist.

At Caltech, you can get a diploma of higher education in the US with a bachelor's, masters or doctoral degree (PhD). Doctorate obtained at Caltech - is a very significant line in the job, and, as a rule, its owners strive for an academic career.

Number of Students:

Caltech can be called a relatively small university - it learns only 900 undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students.

Famous Graduates:

In contrast, the list of graduates of many other famous American universities, at Caltech you will not see many names familiar to the ordinary applicant. Among its graduates are little known politicians, actors and businessmen (except for the founders of high-tech companies). Caltech - a school for those who are seriously interested in science. But for connoisseurs list Caltech graduates - it is almost the history of modern American and world science. Among the graduates of Caltech ideologue programming and "father" of the analysis of algorithms, Donald Knuth, from the founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, astronaut Harrison Schmitt and 18 Nobel Prize winners. Caltech - the place of work of the main characters of the popular series "The Big Bang Theory."