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A Southern California university has been crowned the hardest college to get into in America,with several other California schoolsalso landing spots among the nation’s most selective campuses.
The California Institute of Technology, better known as Caltech, in Pasadena, toppedBusiness Insider’slist of the 35 hardest colleges to get into in the U.S.
The elite private university has just over 2,400 students and an acceptance rate of only 3 percent. It also boasts an enviable student-to-faculty ratio of three-to-one, giving students unusually close access to professors.
Founded in 1891, Caltech is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading science and engineering institutions.
It was also ranked the nation’s 11th-best college byU.S. News & World Report.
Among its most popular majors are Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics.
Despite annual tuition and fees exceeding $68,000 before financial aid, Caltech ranks sixth nationally for value.
Graduates earn average salaries of more than $130,000 a year, helping offset the hefty price tag.
Coming in directly behind the Pasadena institution was Minerva University in San Francisco. The private school also posted a 3 percent acceptance rate, although its student-to-faculty ratio is a far larger 14-to-one.
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