Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university is located on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus in northwestern Santa Clara Valley approximately 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose.

Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid at the age of 16. The university was established as a coeducational and non-denominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford’s 1893 death and much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Future President Herbert C. Hoover founded an eponymous institute for war and peace studies in 1919 following World War I. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates’ entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and major research in solid state electronics. Stanford faculty and alumni founded Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Google.

Standford University Rankings in 2010

• Rank 2 – Engineering Graduate School
• Rank 3 – Law School
• Rank 2 – Mechanical College
• Rank 4 – Global MBA Business School
• BEST BUSINESS SCHOOLS (MBA PROGRAM) RANKING IN 2010
• TOP 100 FINE ARTS COLLEGE RANKING IN 2010
• TOP CHEMISTRY COLLEGE RANKING IN 2010
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROGRAM RANKING IN U.S.
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS
• BEST COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS
• BEST MARKETING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2010

Standford University Ranking in 2011

• BEST BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING IN 2011
• TOP 100 LAW SCHOOLS IN 2011
• TOP 100 GRADUATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• MATERIALS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011-2012
• 2011-2012 TOP 200 COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES
• QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2011
• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
•  TOP ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING IN 2011-2012
•  WORLD’S TOP 50 ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011

Standford University Tuition Fee, 2010-11

Website: http://www.standford.edu

Admission: http://www.stanford.edu/admission/

Standford University News

• Hennessy visits BOSP in Florence - Fri, 18 May 2012
  President John Hennessy visited the Bing Overseas Studies Program’s (BOSP) Breyer Center for Overseas Studies in Florence, Italy for the first time early on Friday.

• Student demonstrators protest Tony Blair’s alleged war crimes [AUDIO] - Fri, 18 May 2012
  A group of around 20 students protested former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Stanford Thursday evening. Holding signs that read "The answer to colonialism is not imperialism" and "Africa's resources are for Africa's people," protesters gathered outside of Cemex Auditorium, where Blair gave a public talk.

• Baseball: Card hopes to carry momentum into Salt Lake City - Fri, 18 May 2012
  It’s time for the No. 12 Stanford baseball team to flex its muscles. For the Cardinal (33-14, 14-10 Pac-12), anything less than a sweep would be a disappointment when it heads to Salt Lake City this weekend, with host Utah (14-35, 7-20) floundering in its first year as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The [...]

• Kickin’ It with Jason Mayden - Fri, 18 May 2012
  I’m going to focus on the 180 seconds in my life that started the race towards my destiny,” said designer and Stanford grad Jason Mayden. “It was an event that’s rather played out in impoverished neighborhoods, but for me, it became the catalyst towards my goals and dreams.”

• Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses African development [AUDIO] - Fri, 18 May 2012
  “Africa, for me, is an endless source of fascination, inspiration and challenge,” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a packed audience Thursday in Cemex Auditorium. “I am fascinated by its possibilities, inspired by its spirit and challenged by the immensity of its problems, which ache for solutions.”

• Faculty Senate debates number of requirements - Fri, 18 May 2012
  The Faculty Senate increased the proposed number of required breadth courses for undergraduates at its Thursday meeting, reverting back to a recommendation made by the Study of Undergraduate Education at Stanford (SUES) report in January.

• Police blotter - Fri, 18 May 2012
  This report covers a selection of incidents from May 11 through May 15 as recorded in the Stanford Department of Public Safety bulletin.

• Students for life - Fri, 18 May 2012
  Rhodes Scholar and Ph.D. candidate Sherif Girgis, co-author of “What is Marriage?”, addressed students at the First Annual Pro-Life and Pro-Family Reception Thursday evening.

• Design with public health in mind - Fri, 18 May 2012
  Speakers from IDEO, the d.school and the Stanford School of Medicine discussed how to design for prevention at the Public Health Extravaganza Thursday evening. The Stanford Journal of Public Health sponsored the event.

• M. Tennis: Men ready for NCAA tournament round of 16 - Fri, 18 May 2012
  The Stanford men’s tennis team begins the final chapter of its season tomorrow when it plays its sweet sixteen match against the University of Kentucky. Held at the University of Georgia in Athens, tomorrow’s round of 16 will kick off the season-finale NCAA championship tournament. Stanford (19-8, 5-2 Pac-12) is seeded No. 11 and will [...]