California Institute of Technology University

Address: 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, United-states

Devise: The truth shall make you free

Number of participants: 2 130

Foundation date: 1891

Phone: +1 626-395-6811

Founders: Amos G. Throop (1811-1894)

Web site: www.caltech.edu

With a little more than 2,000 students, this little University American ranks among the ten best in the world. The California Institute of technology, or Caltech, is 6th on the charts. Located in Pasadena, California, it provides mainly the teachings of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics. Like MIT, Caltech form many students attracted to the proximity of Silicon Valley and other nearby research center of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Recently, one of its teams of researchers published the promising results of work on gene therapy on mouse.

Note on 100: 64.1

Number of students: 2,130

Country: United States

Position in 2011: 6^th