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CALTECH
BASIC INFORMATION:
BRIEF HISTORY:
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Located in Pasadena, California
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Caltech's motto is ''The truth shall make you free''
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The number of students attending MIT is approximately 2,400
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The student-faculty ratio is 3:1
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Many notable visiting professors such as Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten
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Caltech was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891.
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The preparatory and vocational schools were spun off in 1910.
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The school was known as the Troop University and the Troop Polytechnic Institute
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The current name was used for the first time in 1920.
UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:
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28 Oprions (majors), including Biology, Computation and Neural Systems, Engineering and Applied Science, Planetary Science, and more…
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5 Minor Programs, which are Aerospace, Control and Dynamical Systems, Neurobiology, Structural Mechanics, Visual Culture
ALUMNI:
SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:
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46 Nobel Prize laureates (30 alumni and 16 non-alumni professors), 47 prizes in total
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8 Crafoord Prizes from the Royal Swedish Academy
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58 National Medal of Science winners
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11 National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners
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4 Field Medalist
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6 A.M. Turing Award winners
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Linus C. Pauling (Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace)
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William Shockley (Nobel Prize in Physics, father of the Silicon Valley)
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France A. Córdova (Astrophysicist and director of the National Science Foundation)
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Stanislav Smirnov (Fields Medalist)
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Carolyn Porco (Planetary scientist, led the imagining team on the Cassini mission)
CAMPUS INFO:
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100% of freshmen live on campus, although it is not required
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Caltech offers nonremedial tutoring, placement service, health service, health insurance, campus safety and security services 24/7
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Caltech Archives have an extensive repository of historical documents, photographs chronicling scientific achievements, artifacts
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The institute houses the Einstein Papers Project, over 40,000 documents and papers of Albert Einstein
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