California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology’s 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California. It developed from a local school of arts and crafts in 1891. It was named Throop Polytechnic Institute and founded by Amos G. Throop. Since 1920, it has been known as the California Institute of Technology or simply CalTech.
Caltech is one of the world’s most prestigious research institutions. Its mission is to train creative scientists and engineers through instruction in an atmosphere of research, accomplished by the close contacts between a relatively small group of students (approximately 900 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students) and the members of a relatively large faculty (296 professorial faculty, 60 research faculty, and 600 postdoctoral scholars).
Caltech offers four-year undergraduate courses in applied and computational mathematics; applied physics; astrophysics; bioengineering; biology; chemical engineering; chemistry; computer science; economics; electrical engineering; engineering and applied science; geobiology; geochemistry; geology; geophysics; mathematics; mechanical engineering; philosophy; physics; planetary science; business economics and management; history; history and philosophy of science; independent studies; political science; and English.
Graduate students constitute approximately 57 percent of the total student body at Caltech. It offers graduate studies in aerospace, applied and computational mathematics, applied mechanics, applied physics, astrophysics, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, bioengineering, biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, computation and neural systems, computer science, control and dynamical systems, electrical engineering, environmental science and engineering, geological and planetary sciences, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, physics, behavioral and social neuroscience, and social science. The basic tuition and fees in the California Institute of Technology cost around $34,437 per year.
For more information about online learning opportunities at CalTech, such as online classes or degree programs earned partly over the Internet, please contact the school directly.
