36 Facts About Stanford

Leland Stanford was a U S senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon.

Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.

Stanford is the alma mater of U S President Herbert Hoover, 74 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts.

Jane and Leland Stanford modeled their university after the great eastern universities, most specifically Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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Stanford was referred to as the "Cornell of the West" in 1891 due to a majority of its faculty being former Cornell affiliates, including its first president, David Starr Jordan, and second president, John Casper Branner.

When Leland Stanford died in 1893, the continued existence of the university was in jeopardy due to a federal lawsuit against his estate, but Jane Stanford insisted the university remain in operation throughout the financial crisis.

Also in the 1950s William Shockley, co-inventor of the silicon transistor, recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics, and later professor of physics at Stanford, moved to the Palo Alto area and founded a company, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.

Stanford currently operates in various locations outside of its central campus.

Stanford land is leased for a token rent by the Palo Alto Unified School District for several schools including Palo Alto High School and Gunn High School.

White Memorial Fountain between the Stanford Bookstore and the Old Union is a popular place to meet and to engage in the Stanford custom of "fountain hopping"; it was installed in 1964 and designed by Aristides Demetrios after a national competition as a memorial for two brothers in the class of 1949, William N White and John B White II, one of whom died before graduating and one shortly after in 1952.

Stanford is a private, non-profit university administered as a corporate trust governed by a privately appointed board of trustees with a maximum membership of 38.

The 11th and current president of Stanford University is Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne, a Canadian-born neuroscientist.

Stanford is the beneficiary of a special clause in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes.

Half of applicants accepted to Stanford have an SAT score between 1440 and 1570 or an ACT score of 32 and 35.

Stanford is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

For undergraduates admitted starting in 2015, Stanford waives tuition, room, and board for most families with incomes below $65, 000, and most families with incomes below $125, 000 are not required to pay tuition; those with incomes up to $150, 000 may have tuition significantly reduced.

In 2022, Stanford started its first dual-enrollment computer science program for high school students from low-income communities as a pilot project which then inspired the founding of the Qualia Global Scholars Program.

Stanford is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity.

Together with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, Stanford is part of the Biohub, a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan.

Stanford is home to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, a museum with 24 galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child.

In 2014, Stanford opened the Anderson Collection, a new museum focused on postwar American art and founded by the donation of 121 works by food service moguls Mary and Harry Anderson.

Stanford is host to ten a cappella groups, including the Mendicants, Counterpoint (the first all-female group on the West Coast), the Harmonics, the Stanford Fleet Street Singers, Talisman, Everyday People, and Raagapella.

The New York Times in the same year concluded "Stanford University has become America's 'it' school, by measures that Harvard once dominated.

Stanford is one of the most successful universities in creating companies and licensing its inventions to existing companies, and it is often considered a model for technology transfer.

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Stanford is a member of the Pac-12 Conference in most sports, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in several other sports, and the America East Conference in field hockey with the participation in the inter-collegiate NCAA's Division I FBS.

Stanford athletes have won medals in every Summer Olympic Games since 1912.

Stanford is home to a set of student journalism publications.

The Stanford Daily is a student-run daily newspaper and has been published since the university was founded in 1892.

The Stanford Review is a conservative student newspaper founded in 1987.

Stanford is home to a large number of pre-professional student organizations, organized around missions from startup incubation to paid consulting.

Stanford Women In Business is an on-campus business organization, aimed at helping Stanford women find paths to success in the generally male-dominated technology industry.

Stanford Marketing is a student group that provides students hands-on training through research and strategy consulting projects with Fortune 500 clients, as well as workshops led by people from industry and professors in the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Stanford Finance provides mentoring and internships for students who want to enter a career in finance.

Stanford immediately referred the case to prosecutors and offered Miller counseling, and within two weeks had barred Turner from campus after conducting an investigation.

Stanford alumni have started many companies and, according to Forbes, has produced the second highest number of billionaires of all universities.