Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is known for its academic strength, wealth, and proximity to Silicon Valley.
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Motto
German: Die Luft der Freiheit weht
Motto in English: The wind of freedom blows
Type: Private research university
Established: 1891
Founder: Leland and Jane Stanford
Endowment: US$24.8 Billion (2017)
President: Marc Tessier-Lavigne
@worlduniversities007Academic staff: 2,153
Administrative staff: 12,148 excluding SHC
Students: 16,336
Undergraduates: 7,032
Postgraduates: 9,304
Location: Stanford, California, U.S.
Campus: Suburban, 8,180 acres (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2)
Academic term: Quarter
Nickname: Cardinal
Sporting affiliations: NCAA
Division I FBS
Pac-12 (primary)
IRA
PCCSC
MPSF
Mascot: None
Website: www.stanford.edu
The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a former Governor of California and U.S. Senator; he made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution.
@worlduniversities007Stanford University struggled financially after Leland Stanford's death in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The university is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.
@worlduniversities007The university is organized around three traditional schools consisting of 40 academic departments at the undergraduate and graduate level and four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in Law, Medicine, Education and Business. Stanford's undergraduate program is one of the top three most selective in the United States. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 116 NCAA team championships, tied with UCLA for the most for a university. Stanford athletes have won 497 individual championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 23 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. In addition, Stanford students and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.
@worlduniversities007As of March 2018, 81 Nobel laureates, 27 Turing Award laureates, and 7 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty or staff. In addition, Stanford University is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded a large number of companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to 10th largest economy in the world (as of 2011). It is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires and 17 astronauts. It is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress.
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