Caltech is a world-renowned private science and engineering research and teaching university that marshals some of the world’s brightest minds.

The school was founded in Pasadena as a vocational school in 1891 by Amos G. Throop and attracted influential scientists like George Ellery Hale, Arthur Amos Noyes, and Robert Andrews Millikan. The school was renamed in 1920.

The school is consistently ranked as a top 10 university in the world, with 47 Nobel Prize winners.

Caltech has administered and managed NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1936.

* Visitors are not allowed onto JPL’s campus without advance reservations — typically 3–4 weeks are needed