caltech
- Pasadena school
- Pasadena institute where most of "The Big Bang Theory" characters work
- Pasadena engineering school
- Pasadena engineering sch
- Pasadena coll
- Palomar Observatory operator
- Oppenheimer's alma mater
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab partner
- MIT rival, despite the distance
- Linus Pauling's alma mater
- Linus Pauling alma mater
- It runs NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Competition for M.I.T
- Operator of the Palomar Observatory
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory site
- Jet Propulsion Lab site
- Prestigious West Coast school, for short
- West Coast engineering institution, informally
- Prestigious Pasadena institution
- Pasadena campus, for short
- Pasadena coll.
- Pasadena institute, briefly
- Where the Beavers play
- W. Coast engineering school
- Science institution near L.A
- Pasadena science institute, familiarly