Leland 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 with a strong emphasis on scientific, technological and social science research. The university is located on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus in northwestern Santa Clara Valley approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of San Francisco.

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 nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and 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 become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences. More than 50 Stanford faculty, staff and alumni have won the Nobel Prize (list of Nobel Laureates by university affiliation). Stanford also boasts the largest number of Turing award winners for a single institution. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded many tech companies, e.g., Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, LinkedIn, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Google.

*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University

General . Founded in 1885. Regionally accredited . Research university with seven schools : Business , Earth Sciences , Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine . Degrees: 1,646 bachelor's awarded; master’s ,doctoral, first professional offered. ROTC: Army ,Naval, Air Force. Location :29 miles from San Francisco. Calendar :Quarter, extensive summer session. Full-time faculty: 984 total; 98% have terminal degrees,18% minority,24% women. Part-time faculty:18 total ;83% have terminal degrees ,6% women .Class size :72%<20, 12% 20-39,4% 40-49, 7% 50-99, 5%>100. Special facilities: Linear accelerator, 18 libraries, nature preserve, marine research center, Rodin sculpture garden, two art galleries,observatory,10 overseas campuses, medical center.

*From College HANDBOOK
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