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Stanford University

Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University
Stanford University seal 2003.svg
Motto Die Luft der Freiheit weht
(German)
Motto in English
The wind of freedom blows
Type Private
Established 1891 (1891)
Endowment $22.2 billion (2015)
President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Provost John Etchemendy
Academic staff
2,118
Administrative staff
11,128 excluding SHC
Students 15,877
Undergraduates 6,980
Postgraduates 8,897
Location Stanford, California, U.S.
Campus Suburban, 8,180 acres (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2)
Newspaper The Stanford Daily
Colors Cardinal and white
         
Athletics NCAA Division I (FBS) Pac-12
Nickname Cardinal
Mascot Cardinal (official), Stanford Tree (unofficial, mascot of LSJUMB)
Website www.stanford.edu
Stanford wordmark (2012).svg
University rankings
National
ARWU 2
Forbes 1
U.S. News & World Report 5
Washington Monthly 1
Global
ARWU 2
QS 2
Times 3
U.S. News & World Report 3

Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, adjacent to Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco. Its 8,180-acre (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km2) campus is one of the largest in the United States. Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere.

The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a former Governor of California and U.S. Senator; he made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students 125 years ago on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution.

Stanford University struggled financially after Leland Stanford's death in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The rise of Silicon Valley helped Stanford become one of the world's most prestigious universities. The university is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.


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