Stanford University

Stanford University

Campus from above
Motto	Die Luft der Freiheit weht
Type	Private
Established	1891[1]
Endowment	$17.2 billion[2]
President	John L. Hennessy
Students	17,256
Undergraduates	7841[3]
Postgraduates	9688[3]
Location	Stanford , California , United States
Campus	Suburban
Nickname	Cardinal
Mascot	Cardinal
Website	www.stanford.edu

The Leland Stanford Junior University, often called Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university next to Palo Alto in California, in the middle of Silicon Valley, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 miles northwest of San José, in Santa Clara County. Leland and Jane Stanford opened the university on 1 October 1891. They named the university after their son, Leland Stanford Jr., who died at young age.

With one of the largest university campuses in the United States, the university includes the Schools of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities and Sciences. Stanford also hosts volunteer programs and a teaching hospital.

1. ↑ "Stanford University History". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
2. ↑ Sturrock, Carrie (October 1, 2006). "Well-funded: Stanford's endowment purse grows fatter". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Stanford Facts 2007". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
4. ↑ "Stanford Facts 2007 (The Stanford Faculty)". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2007-04-26.