<p>Grad school and undergrad are pretty much separate…if they are grad students it is not much reflection on the undergraduate atmosphere and vice versa. And I don’t think the grad school at Caltech is tiny, so the rates may not be as bad as they seem. </p>
<p>@Jdhutchin: I’d bet the people were not suicidal or even depressed before they got to Caltech. They may have been susceptible to negative thoughts, but universities like Caltech and MIT tend to induce depression.</p>
<p>@RacinReaver: I highly doubt if you average over 20 years that Caltech is the same as other schools. You fail to realize how rare suicides tend to be at colleges. I think for the 90’s Caltech was #2 per capita in suicides in the country. #1 was, big surprise, MIT. </p>
<p>If these are undergraduate suicides at Caltech, then I find it interesting that Caltech suicide rate would rise so sharply just as MIT’s rates decreased.</p>