Caltech and Caltech are not the same school. The former is private. California Institute of Technology was founded in 189 1, located in Pasadena, the northeast suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is a world-famous private research university and is recognized as one of the most typical elite institutions.

California Institute of Technology State University? English abbreviation: Cal Poly? Founded in 190 1, located in San Luis Obispo, California, it is a famous public research university in the United States.

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Caltech is very small, with only about 2000 people. But as of 2065,438+08,65,438+00, 73 alumni, professors and researchers have won the Nobel Prize (ranking eighth in the world), and one graduate per thousand people has won the prize (22 alumni), which is the highest in the world.

Among its alumni, professors and researchers, the school has also produced six Turing Prize winners (the ninth in the world) and four Fields Prize winners (the sixteenth in the world). Qian Xuesen, the "father of China's space flight" and "father of Chinese missiles", graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1939 and has been teaching here for a long time. He also participated in the establishment of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. CBS American drama The Big Bang Theory is also set in California Institute of Technology.

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