"Stanford College, officially Leland Stanford Junior College, is a private research study college in Stanford, California. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and also Jane Stanford in memory of their only kid, Leland Stanford Jr., who had actually died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was an U.S. Senator and former Guv of The golden state who made his fortune as a railroad magnate. The college admitted its very first pupils on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution.

Stanford College battled economically after the fatality of Leland Stanford in 1893 and also once more after much of the school was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco quake. Following The Second World War, Provost Frederick Terman sustained professors and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-dependent local industry in what would later on be referred to as Silicon Valley. [14] The university is also among the leading fundraising organizations in the country, coming to be the very first institution to raise more than a billion bucks in a year.

The college is arranged around seven institutions: 3 schools including 40 academic divisions at the undergraduate degree along with four expert schools that concentrate on graduate programs in regulation, medication, education, and service. All schools get on the exact same university. Students complete in 36 university sports, as well as the university is just one of two personal establishments in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Seminar. It has actually obtained 126 NCAA group champions, as well as Stanford has actually won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 24 successive years, starting in 1994-- 1995. On top of that, Stanford students and also alumni have actually won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.

As of March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates, [note 1] as well as 8 Fields Medalists have actually been affiliated with Stanford as pupils, alumni, faculty or personnel. [39] Additionally, Stanford College is specifically kept in mind for its entrepreneurship as well as is one of the most successful universities in attracting financing for start-ups. Stanford graduates have started many firms, which integrated create more than $2.7 trillion in yearly revenue as well as have developed 5.4 million tasks since 2011, approximately comparable to the 7th largest economy worldwide (since 2020). Stanford is the alma mater of one head of state of the USA (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, as well as 17 astronauts. It is additionally among the leading manufacturers of members of the United States Congress."