Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

Stanford university, officially Leland Stanford Junior university is a non-public research university in Stanford, California, and one of the international's most prestigious establishments with the pinnacle function in numerous scores and measures within the usa.



Stanford changed into based in 1885 with the aid of Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and leading railroad magnate, and his spouse, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their only toddler, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous 12 months. Stanford admitted its first college students on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational group. tuition became unfastened till 1920.The college struggled financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 dying and once more after tons of the campus become damaged by means of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.Following world conflict II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient neighborhood industry in what would later be referred to as Silicon Valley. by means of 1970, Stanford turned into home to a linear accelerator, and turned into one of the authentic 4 ARPANET nodes (precursor to the net).
the main campus is in northern Santa Clara Valley adjoining to Palo Alto and among San Jose and San Francisco. Stanford also has land and facilities some other place.Its 8,a hundred and eighty-acre (3,310 ha)campus is one in every of the biggest within the usa. The college is also one of the pinnacle fundraising institutions within the us of a, becoming the primary faculty to elevate more than a thousand million greenbacks in a year.

Stanford's educational strength is wide with forty departments inside the 3 academic colleges that have undergraduate college students and any other 4 expert faculties. students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one in every of  non-public establishments inside the department I FBS Pacific-12 convention. It has gained 108 NCAA crew championships] the second one-most for a university, 476 person championships, the most in division I, and has received the NACDA administrators' Cup, recognizing the university with the best average athletic team achievement, every year given that 1994-1995.

Stanford college and alumni have founded many businesses consisting of Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, sun Microsystems, Instagram and Yahoo!, and corporations based with the aid of Stanford alumni generate extra than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, equivalent to the 10th-biggest economic system inside the international. it's miles the alma mater of 30 residing billionaires, 17 astronauts, and 18 Turing Award laureates.[note 2] it's also one of the main manufacturers of contributors of the united states Congress.The college has affiliated with 59 Nobel laureates and a pair of Fields Medalists (while awarded).