Stanford University

Stanford University, clearly Leland Stanford Junior University, is a clandestine analysis university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's a lot of celebrated institutions. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, above Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and arch railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in anamnesis of their alone child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid agitation at age 15 the antecedent year. Stanford accepted its aboriginal acceptance on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was chargeless until 1920. The university struggled financially afterwards Leland Stanford's 1893 afterlife and afresh afterwards abundant of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following Apple War II, Provost Frederick Terman accurate adroitness and graduates' entrepreneurialism to body arrogant bounded industry in what would after be accepted as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a beeline accelerator, and was one of the aboriginal four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).

The capital campus is in arctic Santa Clara Valley adjoining to Palo Alto and amid San Jose and San Francisco. Stanford aswell has acreage and accessories elsewhere. Its 8,180-acre campus is one of the better in the United States. The university is aswell one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, acceptable the aboriginal academy to accession added than a billion dollars in a year.

Stanford's bookish backbone is ample with 40 departments in the three bookish schools that accept undergraduate acceptance and addition four able schools. Acceptance attempt in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two clandestine institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has acquired 108 NCAA aggregation championships, the second-most for a university, 476 alone championships, the a lot of in Division I, and has won the NACDA Directors' Cup, acquainted the university with the best all-embracing able-bodied aggregation achievement, every year back 1994-1995.

Stanford adroitness and alumni accept founded abounding companies including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Instagram, Snapchat, and Yahoo!, and companies founded by Stanford alumni accomplish added than $2.7 abundance in anniversary revenue, agnate to the 10th-largest abridgement in the world. It is the alma academy of 30 active billionaires, 17 astronauts, and 20 Turing Award laureates. It is aswell one of the arch producers of associates of the United States Congress. 60 Nobel laureates and two Fields Medalists accept been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, adroitness or staff.