Stanford University, located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has been dedicated to finding solutions to big challenges and to preparing students for leadership in a complex world.
Facts at a glance
- Founded in 1891
- Student enrollment as of 2015: Undergraduates: 6,994 and Graduates: 9,128
- Campus has 8,180 contiguous acres in six governmental jurisdictions, 700 major buildings, and 97% of undergraduates live on campus
- Research: 5,300 externally sponsored projects and $1.33 billion total budget
- 2,118 faculty members. 21 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community
- 4:1 student to faculty ratio
Research
From Nobel Prize winners to undergraduates, all members of the Stanford community are engaged in creating new knowledge, and Stanford brings an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit to this work of discovery. Stanford people take on audacious problems, bring imaginative new approaches to solving them, and work collaboratively to advance knowledge and make meaningful contributions to our world.
The Research Enterprise
- 5,300 externally sponsored projects
- $1.33 billion total budget
- About 2,000 postdoctoral scholars
- 18 independent labs, centers and institutes
Stanford Innovation
- In 2014–15, Stanford received more than $95 million from 695 licensed technologies.
- Breakthrough inventions licensed by Stanford span medicine, engineering and the sciences.
- Stanford entrepreneurs have created an estimated 39,900 companies and 5.4 million jobs since the 1930s.
Stanford's Seven Schools
- Graduate School of Business
- School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
- Graduate School of Education
- School of Engineering
- School of Humanities and Sciences
- Law School
- School of Medicine
