"Stanford College, officially Leland Stanford Junior College, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., that had actually died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was an U.S. Senator as well as former Guv of California that made his fortune as a railroad mogul. The institution confessed its initial pupils on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational as well as non-denominational organization.

Stanford University struggled monetarily after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and also once more after much of the university was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Adhering To World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty as well as graduates' entrepreneurialism to construct self-sufficient regional sector in what would certainly later be called Silicon Valley. [14] The university is likewise among the top fundraising institutions in the country, coming to be the first college to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.

The college is arranged around seven institutions: 3 institutions including 40 academic divisions at the undergraduate degree along with four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in regulation, medicine, education, as well as service. All institutions are on the same campus. Trainees compete in 36 university sporting activities, as well as the college is just one of 2 private establishments in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has actually obtained 126 NCAA group champions, as well as Stanford has actually won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 24 successive years, beginning in 1994-- 1995. Furthermore, Stanford trainees and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals consisting of 139 gold medals.

Since March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates, [note 1] and 8 Fields Medalists have actually been associated with Stanford as pupils, alumni, professors or staff. [39] Furthermore, Stanford College is specifically noted for its entrepreneurship and is just one of the most successful colleges in bring in financing for startups. Stanford alumni have established various firms, which incorporated produce greater than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue as well as have developed 5.4 million tasks since 2011, roughly equal to the 7th largest economic situation on the planet (since 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 additionally one of the leading producers of participants of the United States Congress."