California Institute of Technology is located in Pasadena, northeast suburb of Los Angeles, California, USA. It is a world famous private research university. California Institute of Technology has a long reputation in the world of science and technology, often ranked in the top 10 academic rankings of the world's universities, with Stanford University in San Francisco Bay Area, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a famous university on the West Coast of the United States. There used to be special bus lines from Los Angeles.