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Studying at Caltech
Pasadena, CA•Private R1
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Known for
- • Smallest top STEM school
- • Honor code
- • Physics and astronomy
- • Pure research focus
Popular majors
- • Physics
- • Computer Science
- • Engineering
- • Chemistry
- • Math
Academic culture
Smallest top STEM school in the country (~1000 undergrads). Workload is genuinely brutal — students often describe it as harder than MIT. Honor code is taken very seriously.
How Fennie helps here
Fennie supports Caltech's heavy STEM problem-set load with [physics](/subject/classical-mechanics), [math](/subject/calculus-1), and [quantum mechanics](/subject/quantum-mechanics) coverage.
FAQ
Is Caltech harder than MIT?
By many measures yes — smaller scale, more theoretical, less applied. Grade-deflated.
Honor code in practice?
Strict. Take-home exams are common; violations are severe.
Caltech for non-STEM?
Limited. Caltech is fundamentally a STEM institution; humanities are minimal.
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