Sheldon Cooper went to the fictional East Texas Tech for college, then later attended Caltech for his graduate studies.

Main answer

  • In the canon of Young Sheldon and The Big Bang Theory , Sheldon starts college extremely young at East Texas Tech , a fictional university in his home state of Texas.
  • He studies there from about age 11 and graduates as a teenager, long before most people even finish high school.
  • After East Texas Tech, he goes on to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena for his advanced degrees and later works there as a theoretical physicist, which is the phase most viewers know from The Big Bang Theory.

Quick timeline

  • Starts college at East Texas Tech around age 11.
  • Graduates from East Texas Tech in his early teens with a degree.
  • Moves on to Caltech for doctoral work and a research career in theoretical physics.

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