"Stanford College, formally Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private study university in Stanford, California. The college was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., that had died of typhoid high temperature at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was an U.S. Legislator and former Governor of California that made his ton of money as a railroad magnate. The college confessed its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational as well as non-denominational establishment.

Stanford University struggled monetarily after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the university was harmed by the 1906 San Francisco quake. Complying With World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported professors and grads' entrepreneurialism to build self-dependent local market in what would later on be called Silicon Valley. [14] The university is additionally among the top fundraising establishments in the nation, ending up being the very first institution to elevate more than a billion dollars in a year.

The college is arranged around 7 colleges: 3 schools consisting of 40 scholastic divisions at the undergraduate degree along with 4 specialist institutions that focus on graduate programs in law, medication, education, and also service. All institutions are on the very same university. Trainees complete in 36 varsity sporting activities, as well as the university is among two personal organizations in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has actually acquired 126 NCAA group champions, as well as Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Mug for 24 successive years, beginning in 1994-- 1995. In addition, Stanford students and also alumni have won 270 Olympic medals consisting of 139 gold medals.

As of March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates, [note 1] and 8 Area Medalists have been associated with Stanford as trainees, graduates, faculty or staff. [39] Furthermore, Stanford College is especially kept in mind for its entrepreneurship and also is one of one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have started numerous companies, which integrated create more than $2.7 trillion in annual profits and also have actually developed 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 7th largest economic climate in the world (as of 2020). Stanford is the university of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, and also 17 astronauts. It is also among the leading manufacturers of members of the United States Congress."