Stanford University

About Stanford

Stanford college, positioned between San Francisco and San Jose inside the coronary heart of California's Silicon Valley, is one of the world's main coaching and research universities. since its establishing in 1891, Stanford has been committed to locating answers to massive demanding situations and to preparing college students for management in a complicated global.
Stanford's a hundred and twenty fifth Anniversary
This yr, Stanford celebrates of 125 years of impact in humans’s lives and round the arena. go to the Stanford one hundred twenty five internet site for records approximately upcoming occasions and special on-line content material about Stanford's past, gift and future.

Admission

Stanford college students come from across the united states and at some stage in the world, representing diverse perspectives, reports, backgrounds and cultures. U.S. undergraduate applicants are admitted on a need-blind foundation, and the university offers massive economic useful resource to assist households manipulate the fees. as soon as right here, Stanford college students discover amazing freedom of possibility — to discover, to collaborate and to task themselves.

STANFORD ADMISSIONS AT A GLANCE
pupil ENROLLMENT
Undergraduates: 6,994
Graduates: nine,128
class OF 2019
forty two,497 applicants
1,720 matriculated
From forty nine states and 67 countries

UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION

A holistic overview process evaluates educational excellence, highbrow vitality and private context of every applicant.
Restrictive Early movement utility closing date is November 1.
regular selection software closing date is January three.

GRADUATE ADMISSION

more than sixty five departments and applications provide graduate observe.
commercial enterprise, law and medicinal drug have separate admission procedures.
application closing dates vary via program.
financial aid
U.S. undergraduates are admitted on a need-blind basis; one hundred% of want is met for all admitted domestic college students.
For undergraduates from families with incomes below $125,000, lessons is fully blanketed via scholarship and/or supply resource.
Undergraduate dad and mom with earning below $sixty five,000 are expected to pay nothing closer to training, room or board.
almost 70% of undergraduate students receive assistance toward training fees.
Graduate examine aid is primarily based on availability of funds and educational merit.
approximately 85% of graduate college students get hold of monetary useful resource.
teachers
Stanford offers the type of education needed for management in a hastily converting world. Its seven faculties – Humanities & Sciences, Engineering, commercial enterprise, regulation, remedy, schooling and Earth Sciences – offer a breadth of exceedingly seemed diploma programs that allow students the freedom to explore their highbrow and personal passions

STANFORD ACADEMIC AT A GLANCE
school
2,118 college contributors
4:1 student to school ratio
stages provided
B.A., B.S., B.A.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., D.M.A., M.D., M.B.A., J.D., J.S.D., J.S.M., LL.M., M.F.A., M.L.S., M.L.A., M.P.P., ENG

SEVEN COLLEGES

1. business
2. Earth, energy & Environmental Sciences
3. Education
4. Engineering
5. Humanities and Sciences
6. law
7. medicine

MAJORS WITH MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT

1. laptop science
2. Human Biology
3. Engineering
4. Biology
5. technological know-how, generation and Society

schools
the colleges of Earth Sciences, Engineering and arts & Sciences offer both undergraduate and graduate packages. Graduate colleges include commercial enterprise, schooling, regulation and remedy.

Stanford's Seven colleges
the colleges of Earth Sciences, Engineering and arts & Sciences offer each undergraduate and graduate packages. Graduate colleges consist of enterprise, education, law and medicine.
1. Graduate school of business
2. college of Earth, energy & Environmental Sciences
three. Graduate faculty of schooling
4. college of Engineering
5. college of Humanities & Sciences
6. faculty of law
7. college of medication

MAJORS WITH maximum ENROLLMENT
1. computer technological know-how
2. Human Biology
3. Engineering
4. Biology
5. technological knowledge and Society

studies
From Nobel Prize winners to undergraduates, all participants of the Stanford network are engaged in developing new know-how, and Stanford brings an progressive, entrepreneurial spirit to this work of discovery. Stanford humans take on audacious troubles, carry resourceful new processes to fixing them, and work collaboratively to improve understanding and make significant contributions to our world.

Doing studies at Stanford
Do Research, the internet site of the workplace of the Vice Provost and Dean of research, affords complete statistics approximately the research organisation at Stanford.
1. DoResearch
2. research management
3. studies coverage manual
4. workplaces & resources

committed research facilities
several unbiased labs, facilities and institutes interact college and college students from across the college. academic departments sponsor numerous other studies labs.
1. independent Laboratories, centers and Institutes
2. studies facilities (A - Z)

included studies & coaching
The synthesis of coaching and research is fundamental to Stanford. much of this college-pushed studies takes place inside academic departments and interdisciplinary programs.
1. colleges
2. educational Departments (A – Z)
3. Interdisciplinary packages
st effective X-ray laser to look at matter in excessive conditions.

STANFORD STUDIES AT A LOOK
college
2118 college contributors
21 Nobel laureates
4 Pulitzer Prize winners
THE studies agency
5300 externally subsidized initiatives
$1.33 billion total finances
approximately 2000 postdoctoral students
18 impartial labs, centers and institutes

LIBRARIES
9.three million physical volumes
4 million e-books and audiovisual materials
300,000 rare or unique books and 59 million pages of unpublished materials

STANFORD INNOVATION
In 2014–15, Stanford acquired extra than $ninety five million from 695 certified technology.
breakthrough innovations certified by means of Stanford span medicinal drug, engineering and the sciences.
Stanford marketers have created an estimated 39,900 agencies and five.four million jobs for the reason that Thirties.

Campus lifestyles
Stanford is a thriving residential campus and community sitting on 8,000 acres of foothills and flatlands – once a horse farm belonging to Jane and Leland Stanford and nevertheless fondly known as "the Farm." residing at Stanford brings surprises and new studies every day, in an brilliant community of creative and executed humans from around the arena.

CAMPUS lifestyles AT a glance

CAMPUS HOUSING

about 6,500 undergraduates and 5,seven-hundred graduates stay on campus.
97% of undergraduates stay in on-campus housing.
sixty four% of housing-eligible graduate college students stay on campus.
81 numerous facilities, inclusive of all-learners and 4-magnificence houses, small organization houses, residences and suites.

pupil organizations

650+ prepared pupil businesses
forty four identified spiritual organizations
Over 88 pupil companies dedicated to the humanities

ATHLETICS & fitness

36 varsity sports and 24 membership sports
107 NCAA team championships
today's exercise and fitness centers
GETTING round
An expected thirteen,000 bicycles on campus
79 unfastened Marguerite shuttles
35 miles to San Francisco and 19 miles to San Jose