Stanford University - Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom blows)
Stanford University is privately funded and located about 40 miles south east of San Francisco in california, USA. Students studying at Stanford university are able to take both graduate and undergraduate degrees.
The University was founded by Leland Stanford in 1891 by Leland Stanford, the california governor at the time and a renowned railroad tycoon. The university is actually named the Leland Stanford Junior University in honour of his son who died of typhoid as an adolescent.
Stanford University Facts
Stanford University covers an area of around 8200 acres in the Santa Clara valley and was designed by the prominent architects Frederick Olmsted and Charles Coolidge in a Romanesque style. Unfortunately, much of the early construction of Stanford university was destroyed by the earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, the university was further damaged in the california earthquake that occurred in 1989. The modern buildings are designed to reflect the Spanish colonial style that is prominent in California; the university has many buildings with red tile roofs and white stucco exteriors.
The libraries of Stanford University have a massive collection of over eight million. The university is coeducational, with a roughly 50:50 split of students at the undergraduate level, but a 66:33 split at graduate level. Stanford has approximately 6,700 students and over eight thousand graduate students. There are about 1,750 members of faculty.
Admission to Stanford University is extremely selective with great competition for places, the acceptance rate is approximately 12%. The university has an endowment of around 13.2 billion US dollars.
Stanford University is very strong in the plant sciences with the renowned Carnegie institute for plant science being located there.
Stanford University Address
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA