The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society.
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Location Top
Caltech's 124-acre campus is situated in Pasadena, California, a city of 141,000 at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, approximately 30 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and 10 miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center.
The Institute is an independent, privately supported university, and is not affiliated with either the University of California system or the California State Polytechnic universities.
Academic Organization Top
Caltech has six academic divisions:
Beneath this apparently simple organization lie some 40 areas of concentration in science, mathematics, engineering, and the humanities and social sciences.
Student Body Profile Top
Enrollment (first term 2007): 913 undergraduates (634 men, 279 women)
Fifty-eight percent of undergraduates receive need-based financial assistance.
2008 Freshman Class:
There were 3,956 applications for the '08 freshman class; 686 offers of admission were made, and 241students matriculated.
98 percent of those ranked were in the top 10 percent of their class Degrees Awarded, June 2007 Top
BS 207
MS
128
Engineer
1
PhD
187
Faculty in Residence Top
(as of December 2007)
Professorial faculty 296 Emeriti 104 Research faculty 60 Other faculty 53 Visiting faculty 100 Postdoctoral scholars 577 Senior postdoctoral scholars 33 Visitors 108
Employees Top
(as of December 2007)
Campus (excluding faculty and students) 2,650 JPL (excluding contractors) 5,200
Living Alumni Top
(as of January 2008)
BS 11,120 MS 7,693 Engineer 378
PhD 6,670 Ex student 642 Total 26,284
(The total number of degrees is greater than the number of living alumni because many graduates have multiple Caltech degrees.)
Campus Budget Top
(Fiscal Year 2007)
Total Campus Operating Expenditures
$541,526,000
Sources of Operating Revenue: Student Tuition & Fees, Net 3% Gifts and Investment Return 56% Grants & Contracts 35% Auxiliary and Other Income 6% Uses of Operating Revenue: Instruction & Academic Support 40% Organized Research 42% Institutional & Student Support 11% Auxiliary Enterprises 7%