Founded in 1891, it is a well-known private university in the United States, a world-renowned research university, and an institution that is rich in members of the United States Congress
Stanford University is a private university in the United States and is recognized as one of the most outstanding universities in the world. It is located in Stanford, California, near San Francisco. Stanford University has assets that are among the largest among the world's universities. It covers an area of 35 square kilometers and is the second-largest university in the United States by area.
Stanford University is located in Palo Alto, California, USA, adjacent to San Francisco and only 1 hour away by car. California has a pleasant climate, a wide range of ethnic differences, and many people of Asian descent who settle here. The state's open public culture and receptivity to new ideas are also apparently stronger than those of other U.S. states. Someone once compared California to California, saying that California seems to be located in the conflict between the two cultural forces of the East and the West; And because of the impact of different cultures, California has a different urban aesthetic from other American cities.
Stanford University was founded in 1885. Leland Stanford, the former governor of California, decided to donate money to establish a university named after his son in Palo Aalto in memory of his son, who died of illness during his travels in Italy, and set aside his 8,180 acres of farm for the training of high-bred racehorses as the school's campus. This decision brought untold wealth to California and the United States, even though it was considered a desolate and isolated Far West by Americans. Until now, people called Stanford "The Farm". Therefore, at Stanford University, bicycles are a must-have for students.
Stanford University is well-funded, well-funded, and well-equipped. The library has a collection of 6.5 million volumes. There are more than 7,000 computers for students to use, as well as a number of computer labs and computer centres to provide services to students. Students can use the Internet to connect with teachers and students on campus. In addition, there are many sports facilities on campus, such as a gymnasium with a capacity of 85,000 people, a golf course, and a swimming pool.
In the '60s, while the University of California, Berkeley, was both academically and student-minded, Stanford was still in obscurity. Today, Stanford University is considered the "Harvard of the West Bank."
Stanford's take-off is after the seventies, and I'm afraid we owe it to Stanford. In 1959, Frederick Terman, dean of the School of Engineering, came up with an idea that was the turning point for Stanford: to lease 1,000 acres at very low, nominal rent for a long time to the business community or alumni to set up companies, and then they would work with the school to provide a variety of research projects and student internships. Stanford became the first university in the United States to establish an industrial park on its campus. Thanks to the advice that land should be rewarded for a great gain, Stanford has put itself at the forefront of the United States: "One after another, companies in the industrial park opened, and soon beyond the scope of the land that Stanford could provide, it expanded outward, forming the "Silicon Valley" of California's cutting-edge and elite technology. Surrounded by technology conglomerates and corporations, Stanford is closely associated with high technology, with the business world, and, above all, with pragmatism and the pioneering spirit. With the rise of the "high-tech belt" on the West Coast of the United States, various computer companies, including "Microsoft, the darling of the century," have set up camp on this front, and Stanford's position has become more and more important. Stanford graduates have made remarkable contributions to human civilization, scientific and technological progress, world politics and economy, and the development of modern business. Among them are U.S. President Hoover, a world leader in science and technology, and a Nobel laureate. Stanford University laid the foundation and created the famous Silicon Valley of the United States, giving birth to a world-renowned modern technology culture. Stanford graduates have created some of the world's leading companies, including HP, Cisco, EBay, Electronic Art, Gap, Google, Nike, Sun, Yahoo, and hundreds of publicly traded companies in the United States.
If Harvard and Yale represent the traditional humanistic spirit of the United States, then Stanford University is a symbol of the scientific and technological spirit of the 21st century.
Stanford University is a four-year private university ranked as the 5th star university in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and the first in the national academic rankings. In 2002, U.S. News released the latest national graduate school rankings, the College of Engineering ranked second in the United States, the School of Education ranked second in the United States, the Graduate School of Business ranked first, the Institute of Business Management and the School of Law ranked among the best in the United States, and the Law School has always been in the forefront of the American law school rankings. At one time, six of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court graduated from Stanford Law School. In the ranking of doctoral programs, biology is the first, computer science is tied for first place with Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley, third in geology, mathematics is tied for third with Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, physics is tied for third with Harvard, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley, applied mathematics is fourth, and chemistry is fifth. Other top-ranked programs include English, Psychology, Mass Communication, Biochemistry, Economics, and Drama. According to a recent official statistic, Stanford University has the highest average annual income among all universities in the United States. In 1998, Chelsea, the only daughter of US President Clinton, chose Stanford University as a freshman at the school, which is undoubtedly another proof of Stanford's strength.
Compared with the Ivy League schools in the eastern United States, especially Harvard and Yale, Stanford University has a relatively short history, but it can compete with the Ivy League universities in terms of academic standards and other aspects, for example, according to the 2010 inventory of Forbes magazine in the United States, Stanford University ranks second, and the number of billionaires reaches 28, second only to Harvard University.
