Founded in 1891 as Throop University, Caltech is located in Pasadena, California, about 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles.

For more than a century, the Institute has advanced understanding of Earth, the universe, and the human mind. With a relatively small community of 300 faculty, 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students, and 600 postdoctoral scholars, Caltech has an outsized impact on science and society.