Stanford University

Stanford University, formally businessman Junior University, may be a personal analysis university in Stanford, California, and one amongst the world's most prestigious establishments.
Stanford was based in 1885 by businessman, former Governor of and U.S. legislator from Golden State and leading railroad power, and his spouse, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their solely kid, businessman Jnr., World Health Organization had died of enteric fever at age fifteen the previous year. Stanford admitted its initial students on Oct one, 1891 as a co-ed and non-denominational establishment. Tuition was free till 1920. The university struggled financially when Leland Stanford's 1893 death and once more when a lot of of the field was broken by the 1906 city earthquake. Following warfare II, academic administrator Frederick Terman supported college and graduates' entrepreneurialism to create self-sustaining native business in what would later be referred to as geographical area. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linac, and was one amongst the initial four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).

The main field is in northern Santa Clara vale adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and city. Stanford conjointly has land and facilities elsewhere. Its eight,180-acre (3,310 ha) field is one amongst the biggest within the u.s.. The university is additionally one amongst the highest fundraising establishments within the country, turning into the primary faculty to lift over a billion greenbacks in a very year.

Stanford's educational strength is broad with forty departments within the 3 educational faculties that have undergrad students and another four skilled faculties. Students vie in thirty six varsity sports, and also the university is one amongst 2 personal establishments within the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. it's gained 108 NCAA team championships, the second-most for a university, 476 individual championships, the foremost in Division I, and has won the NACDA Directors' Cup, recognizing the university with the most effective overall athletic team action, per annum since 1994–1995.
Stanford college and alumni have based several corporations together with Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Instagram, Snapchat, and Yahoo!, and corporations based by Stanford alumni generate over $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, cherish the 10th-largest economy within the world. it's the school of thirty living billionaires, seventeen astronauts, and twenty mathematician Award laureates. it's conjointly one amongst the leading producers of members of the u.  s. Congress.Sixty philanthropist laureates and 7 Fields Medalists are related to with Stanford as students, alumni, college or workers.