"Stanford College, formally Leland Stanford Junior College, is an exclusive research college in Stanford, California. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and also Jane Stanford in memory of their only youngster, Leland Stanford Jr., that had actually passed away of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was an U.S. Senator and also former Guv of The golden state that made his ton of money as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first pupils on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational as well as non-denominational institution.

Stanford College struggled economically after the fatality of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the school was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco quake. Adhering To World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported professors and also grads' entrepreneurialism to develop self-dependent regional sector in what would later on be referred to as Silicon Valley. [14] The college is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the nation, ending up being the very first college to elevate more than a billion dollars in a year.

The college is arranged around 7 schools: 3 institutions consisting of 40 scholastic departments at the undergraduate degree as well as four specialist institutions that concentrate on graduate programs in legislation, medicine, education and learning, as well as service. All institutions get on the very same school. Pupils contend in 36 university sporting activities, as well as the college is just one of two personal organizations in the Department I FBS Pac-12 Meeting. It has actually gotten 126 NCAA group championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 24 consecutive years, starting in 1994-- 1995. In addition, Stanford students and graduates have won 270 Olympic medals consisting of 139 gold medals.

Since March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Honor laureates, [note 1] and also 8 Area Medalists have actually been connected with Stanford as students, graduates, professors or personnel. [39] On top of that, Stanford University is specifically kept in mind for its entrepreneurship as well as is just one of the most effective colleges in drawing in funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have founded many firms, which combined create greater than $2.7 trillion in yearly income and have actually produced 5.4 million tasks as of 2011, approximately equal to the 7th largest economy in the world (as of 2020). Stanford is the university of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts. It is additionally among the leading manufacturers of members of the USA Congress."