The California Institute of Technology, called Cal...

The California Institute of Technology, called Caltech, is a private, open university founded in Pasadena, California, one of the largest states in 1891, as a vocational college by a businessman and politician. The college was then known as Thrup University and then the Thrup Polytechnic Institute, before it was called the California Institute of Technology. The California Institute of Technology admits only a fifth of students who apply.