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Stanford University

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Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University
MottoDie Luft der Freiheit weht (German)[1]
Motto in English
"The wind of freedom blows"[1]
TypePrivate research university
EstablishedOctober 1, 1891 (October 1, 1891)[2][3]
FounderLeland and Jane Stanford
AccreditationWSCUC
Academic affiliations
Endowment$36.5 billion (2023)[4]
Budget$8.9 billion (2023/24)[5]
PresidentJonathan Levin
ProvostJenny Martinez
Academic staff
2,323 (fall 2023)[6]
Administrative staff
18,369 (fall 2023)[7]
Students17,529 (fall 2023)[6]
Undergraduates7,841 (fall 2023)[6]
Postgraduates9,688 (fall 2023)[6]
Location
Stanford
,
California
,
United States 37°25′39″N 122°10′12″W / 37.42750°N 122.17000°W / 37.42750; -122.17000
CampusLarge suburb:[8] 8,180-acre (3,310-hectare)[6]
Other campuses
NewspaperThe Stanford Daily
Colors  Cardinal Red
  White[9]
NicknameCardinal
Sporting affiliations
MascotStanford Tree (unofficial)[10]
Websitestanford.edu Edit this at Wikidata

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University)[11][12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.[2]

The university admitted its first students in 1891,[2][3] opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[13] Following World War II, university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry (later Silicon Valley).[14] In 1951, the Stanford Research Park was established in Palo Alto and is the world's first university research park.[15] By 2021, the university had 2,288 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical faculty on staff.[16]

The university is organized around seven schools of study on an 8,180-acre (3,310-hectare) campus, one of the largest in the nation.[6] It houses the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank, and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[17] Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of eight private institutions in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Stanford has won 131 NCAA team championships,[18] and was awarded the NACDA Directors' Cup for 25 consecutive years, beginning in 1994.[19] Students and alumni have won 302 Olympic medals (including 153 gold).[20]

The university is associated with 74 living billionaires,[21] 58 Nobel laureates,[16] 33 MacArthur Fellows,[16] 29 Turing Award winners,[note 1] as well as 7 Wolf Foundation Prize recipients, 2 Supreme Court Justices of the United States, and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners.[16] Additionally, its alumni include many Fulbright Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, Rhodes Scholars, and members of the United States Congress.[42]

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  22. ^ "Vinton Cerf – A.M. Turing Award Winner". acm.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  23. ^ "Allen Newell". acm.org. Archived from the original on September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
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  26. ^ "Barbara Liskov". acm.org. Archived from the original on September 19, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
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