Stanford has about 6,700 undergraduates and 8,000 graduate students from American states and around the world every year. The school is divided into several colleges, such as Stanford Business School, Law School, Medical College and Engineering College. The university is located in Silicon Valley, and its alumni include founders of Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, NVIDIA, Yahoo, Cisco, Silicon Valley Graphics and Google.
The 20 10 edition of American news and world report ranks Stanford university's undergraduate courses fourth in the United States (second only to ivy league schools such as Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and equally famous with California institute of technology, Massachusetts institute of technology and university of Pennsylvania). Stanford has always been among the best in other universities. It is one of the two private universities competing in the Pacific Association of Ten Universities. Stanford's main sports rival is Berkeley, and the two schools play each other in a football match called Big Match every year. The winner was awarded the Stanford axe. The winner of the 20 10 contest is Stanford, who is currently holding an axe.
History of Stanford University
Stanford University is located in Palo Alto, California, USA, adjacent to San Francisco, which can be reached by car 1 hour. California has a pleasant climate and great ethnic differences, and many Asians have settled here. The open folk customs in this state are obviously more receptive to new ideas than other States in the United States. Someone once compared California, saying that California seems to be located on the plate of the conflict between eastern and western cultural forces; It is precisely because of the influence of different cultures that California is different from other cities in the United States in terms of urban beauty.
Stanford University was founded in 1885. In memory of his son who died while traveling in Italy, Leland Stanford Sr, then king of California railways and former governor of California, decided to donate money to establish a university named after his son in Palo Alto, and took out his 865,438+080 acre farm for training excellent horse racing as the campus of the school. Their decision will bring endless wealth to California and the United States in the future, although it is still a desolate and isolated remote west in the eyes of Americans. Until now, people still call Stanford a "farm". So in Stanford University, bicycles are a necessary means of transportation for students.
Stanford University has abundant funds, sufficient funds and rich teaching equipment, which provides convenient conditions and a solid foundation for personalized education. This library has 6.5 million books. There are more than 7,000 computers for students to use, and there are also many computer rooms and computer centers to provide services for students. Students can use the internet to contact teachers and students in the school. In addition, the school also has many sports facilities, such as gymnasium, golf course and swimming pool, which can accommodate 85,000 people.
In the 1960s, when the University of California at Berkeley was famous for its academic and student movements, Stanford University was unknown. Today, Stanford University has been regarded as "Harvard University on the West Coast".
Stanford took off after the 1970s, but I'm afraid it's still due to its greatness. More than 8,000 mu of land, the school can use it as it wants. So in 1959, FrederickTerman, the dean of the School of Engineering, put forward an idea-this was a turning point of Stanford University: renting 1000 mu of land to the industrial and commercial circles or alumni for a long time at a very low nominal rent to set up a company, and then they would cooperate with the school to provide students with various research projects and internship opportunities. Stanford became the first university in the United States to establish an industrial park on its campus. Because of the suggestion that land will be harvested in return, Stanford University is at the forefront in the United States. Enterprises in the industrial park opened one after another, and soon they went beyond the land provided by Stanford and expanded outward, forming SiliconValley (also translated as "Silicon Valley") with cutting-edge technology and elites in California. Surrounded by science and technology groups and enterprises, Stanford University has established close ties with high technology, commerce, pragmatism and pioneering spirit, which are typical "American spirit". With the rise of the high-tech belt on the west coast of the United States, various computer companies, including Microsoft, the darling of the century, have set up camp in this line, and Stanford University is playing an increasingly important role. Stanford University graduates have made outstanding contributions to human civilization, scientific and technological progress, world political economy and modern business development. Among them are American President Hoover, a world leader in science and technology and a Nobel Prize winner. Stanford University laid the foundation stone, founded the famous Silicon Valley in the United States, and gave birth to a world-renowned modern science and technology culture. Stanford University graduates have created many world-class enterprises, including Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, EBay, ElectronicArt, Gap, Google, Nike, Sun, Yahoo and hundreds of well-known American listed companies, and so on.
If Harvard and Yale University represent the traditional American humanistic spirit, then Stanford University is the symbol of the scientific and technological spirit of the 2 1 century. Stanford University is a four-year private university, rated as the fifth-star university in the United States by US News and World Report, ranking first in academic research, second in engineering school, second in education school, first in business graduate school, first in business management school and law school in the United States, and law school has always been in the forefront of American law school rankings. At one time, six of the nine justices of the US Supreme Court graduated from Stanford Law School. Among doctoral programs, biology ranks first, computer science ranks first with Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and UC Berkeley, geology ranks third, mathematics ranks third with Princeton University and UC Berkeley, physics ranks third with Harvard University, Princeton University and UC Berkeley, applied mathematics ranks fourth and chemistry ranks fifth. Other top courses include English, psychology, mass communication, biochemistry, economics and drama. According to the latest official statistics, the average annual income of recent graduates of Stanford University is the highest among universities in the United States. From 65438 to 0998, Chelsea, the only daughter of American President Bill Clinton, chose Stanford University as a freshman, which is undoubtedly another proof of the strength of Stanford University.
Compared with IVYLeague schools in the eastern United States, especially Harvard and Yale, Stanford University has a short history, but it is comparable to Ivy League schools in academic level and other aspects. For example, according to Forbes magazine's 20 10 inventory, Stanford University ranks second, with 28 billionaires, second only to Harvard University. /zd/lx