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Despite its small size, 31 Caltech alumni and faculty have won the Nobel Prize and 66 have won the National Medal of Science or Technology.

There are 109 faculty members who have been elected to the National Academies.

In addition, numerous faculty members are associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as NASA.

Caltech managed $ 332 million in sponsored research and $ 1. 77 billion for its endowment in 2011.

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

It also has a long standing rivalry with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).