The Leland Stanford Junior University (also known as Stanford University) is a premier American educational institution. Stanford is a private research university and is ranked 3rd in AWRU ranking after Harvard and MIT). Stanford is the second largest university in terms of acquired land as is it situated on an 8,180-acre campus at Stanford, California United States 37 miles southwest of San Francisco. Today Stanford is identified for its Nobel winner alumni, faculties. Its students and faculties established prominent companies like Google, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, LinkedIn. It has secured 50 Nobel Award as well as it has achieved the largest number of Turning Award.
Stanford University was founded by a Californian tycoon and politician Leland Stanford in 1891 in memory of his son Leland Stanford Jr. who died at the age of 16 from typhoid. It was started with 559 students and 15 faculty members which has became a highly prestigious institution with more than 6,900 undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students. Stanford had to face financial problems after death of Leland Senior in 1893 even its campus was also ruined in 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Later its administration decides to promote it. Frederick Terman supported it financially to build self-financed institution. It got its reputation after 1960. It changed itself into a research university in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and social sciences.
Presently Stanford University is a group of seven schools including School of Engineering, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, School of Education, Graduate School of Business, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford Law School. It is also a founding member of the Association of American Universities. In the beginning of the university, ratio of male and female students was fixed 3:1 which is now 2:1.
Stanford University is governed by a corporate trust governed by Board of trustees. Board of trustees has 35 members who are elected for five-year terms (they can’t be chosen more than two times). Board appoints a President to follow the responsibilities of CEO. President appoints vice presidents and other staffs. The University is organized into seven schools through the Academic Council formed by the faculty members, senior fellow, the president of the university, academic administrators and elected representatives of the faculty. Besides this Stanford University has also Associated Students of Stanford University to handle the university administration, all registered students are its members.
Its alumni and faculty members are the pride of Stanford University which motivated the world through their initiative efforts to startup new life changing venture like Internet, Google, Yahoo, Wipro, and much more. Stanford community has been awarded with 50 Nobel Prize, in which 19 Nobel winner are serving the university with winners of 4 Pulitzer Prize winner, 8 Wolf Foundation Prize, 6 Koret Foundation Prize including several another awards.
