California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned private research university in Pasadena, California, celebrated for its strength in science, engineering, and technology. It operates a small, highly selective campus that emphasizes intensive research and close collaboration between students and faculty across disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and aerospace engineering. Caltech is also the managing institution for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which significantly shapes its leadership in space exploration and planetary science.