"Stanford College, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is an exclusive research college in Stanford, California. The college 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 Governor of California who made his ton of money as a railroad tycoon. The institution confessed its very first pupils on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational as well as non-denominational institution.

Stanford University had a hard time financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and also again after much of the school was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco quake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported professors and also grads' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient regional sector in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. [14] The college is additionally among the leading fundraising institutions in the nation, becoming the initial institution to increase greater than a billion bucks in a year.

The university is arranged around seven institutions: three institutions including 40 scholastic departments at the undergraduate degree as well as 4 specialist colleges that concentrate on graduate programs in regulation, medicine, education and learning, and service. All institutions are on the same campus. Trainees complete in 36 university sports, as well as the college is one of 2 exclusive establishments in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Seminar. It has gotten 126 NCAA team champions, and also Stanford has actually won the NACDA Directors' Mug for 24 consecutive years, beginning in 1994-- 1995. Furthermore, Stanford pupils and graduates have won 270 Olympic medals consisting of 139 gold medals.

As of March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates, [note 1] as well as 8 Area Medalists have been associated with Stanford as pupils, graduates, professors or personnel. [39] Additionally, Stanford University is especially noted for its entrepreneurship as well as is among the most successful colleges in drawing in funding for startups. Stanford graduates have started countless firms, which integrated create greater than $2.7 trillion in yearly revenue and have produced 5.4 million jobs since 2011, roughly comparable to the 7th largest economy in the world (as of 2020). Stanford is the university of one head of state of the USA (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, as well as 17 astronauts. It is also among the leading producers of members of the United States Congress."