Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones.

PASADENA — In a major shift for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday, Aug. 31, it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have ...

This year’s winner for most selective private doctoral-level school in America is right here on the West Coast. The California Institute of Technology (more commonly known as Caltech) in Pasadena has ...