"Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a personal research study college in Stanford, California. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland as well as Jane Stanford in memory of their only kid, Leland Stanford Jr., that had passed away of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a UNITED STATE Senator and also previous Guv of California that made his ton of money as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its very first trainees on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational as well as non-denominational institution.

Stanford College struggled economically after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 as well as once more after much of the university was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco quake. Complying With World War II, Provost Frederick Terman sustained faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to develop self-dependent local industry in what would certainly later on be known as Silicon Valley. [14] The university is likewise among the leading fundraising institutions in the nation, becoming the very first institution to increase more than a billion dollars in a year.

The university is organized around 7 institutions: 3 schools consisting of 40 academic divisions at the undergraduate degree as well as four specialist schools that concentrate on graduate programs in regulation, medication, education and learning, and business. All schools get on the very same campus. Students compete in 36 university sporting activities, and the university is one of two exclusive organizations in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has obtained 126 NCAA group champions, as well as Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Mug for 24 successive years, beginning in 1994-- 1995. In addition, Stanford pupils and also graduates have won 270 Olympic medals consisting of 139 gold medals.

Since March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Honor laureates, [note 1] as well as 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as trainees, graduates, professors or personnel. [39] In addition, Stanford University is specifically noted for its entrepreneurship as well as is among one of the most effective colleges in bring in funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have actually founded countless companies, which integrated create greater than $2.7 trillion in yearly revenue and have actually developed 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, approximately equal to the 7th largest economy on the planet (since 2020). Stanford is the alma mater of one president of the USA (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts. It is likewise among the leading producers of members of the USA Congress."