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Caltech Ranks #1 in Kiplinger's 2009 List of Best Values in Private Colleges
For the fourth year in a row, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has ranked Caltech as the best value among private universities in the United States.
Caltech is also commended in the article for its relatively low sticker price of $46,629, its need-baed aid program, and the fact that Caltech students graduate with an average debt of $9,871, the second-lowest on Kiplinger's list. The annual private school rankings appear in Kiplinger's December 2009 issue,on newstands November 10, and online now at www.kiplinger.com/reports/best-college-values/
Fall 2010 Freshman Application is Now Live
The fall 2010 freshman application is now available online through the Common Application. The Early Action deadline is November 2nd and Regular Decision deadline is January 4th.
Caltech News
Caltech Alum Named to top UK Post
Caltech alum David MacKay, PhD '92, has been appointed chief scientific advisor for the United Kingdom's Department of Energy and Climate Change. MacKay is currently a professor of natural philosophy in the physics department at Cambridge University and is author of the influential book Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air.
View a picture gallery that showcases students across campus working on their Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects.Whether they're studying the effects of subliminal media messages on our thinking, investigating the role of dark matter in shaping the universe, or exploring therapies that may one day lead to successful new treatments for AIDS, undergraduates from Caltech and a host of other universities are spending the summer immersed in a diverse and challenging research environment.
Ahmed Zewail Named to President Obama's Council of Advisors
Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and the Professor of Physics at Caltech, has been named by President Barack Obama to the United States Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The announcement was made by President Obama in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The council consists of a group of 20 leading experts from both the private and sector and the academic community.
Time Recounts a History of Tech Pranking
In an article called "Pranking Pride," Time magazine catalogues the history of pranks carried out by students at Caltech and MIT. From the 1961 Rose Bowl Hoax to a 2007 incident at Boston's Logan Airport, the article describes the bicoastal hacking competition as "the geeky version of working things out on the football field."
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