by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
California Institute of Technology landed the #16 spot in College Factual's 2024 Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S. ranking out of a pool of 1149 colleges and universities that were eligible for this year's ranking. This means that the school is among the Top 5% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. For this achievement, Caltech received one of this year's Best Master's Schools badges.
Caltech was ranked #14 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. This means that the school is among the Top 5% of the nation when it comes to overall quality. Caltech was awarded this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge for this accomplishment.
In addition, Caltech took the #4 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in California.
The total graduate student population at Caltech is made up of 31.9% women and 68.1% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
Racial-ethnic minorities* make up 20.8% of the graduate student population at Caltech. The school attracts students from outside the U.S., too. Around 45.9% of graduate students hail from another country. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $56,364 | $56,364 |
| Fees | $2,079 | $2,079 |
Graduate students earning a doctorate degree from Caltech enter careers with an average starting salary of $59,996. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 20% lower than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of California Institute of Technology.
Contact details for Caltech are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125 |
| Phone: | 626-395-6811 |
| Website: | www.caltech.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/californiainstituteoftechnology |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/caltech |
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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