Ranked 5th in the world, California Institute of Technolo

Ranked 5th in the world, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is the smallest of the 10 top universities in the US, located on a 124-acre campus in the city of Pasadena, California, around 11 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Pictured above is the Millikan Library, the highest building on campus at nine stories, which is named after Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. As an institute of technology, the campus includes a large number of laboratories and other scientific and technological facilities. Fans of the TV show The Big Bang Theory may know Caltech as the main characters’ university workplace; however the show is not actually filmed on campus