Introduction to Stanford University
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. Legend has it that the Stanford couple visited the president of Harvard University and proposed to build a building on the Harvard campus to commemorate their son's death, but it was rejected, so they built this world-famous university. Their decision will bring endless wealth to California and the United States in the future, even though it was still a desolate and isolated remote west in the eyes of Americans at that time. 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. 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 bank of Jordan".
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, Frederick Terman, president of the School of Engineering, put forward an idea-this was the 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. Thanks to the hint of land harvest returns, Stanford put itself in the forefront of the United States: "Enterprises in industrial parks opened one after another, and soon surpassed the land that Stanford could provide, and expanded outward, forming a 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 spirits. With the rise of the "high-tech belt" on the west coast of the United States, various computer companies, including the century darling Microsoft, have set up camp in this line, and the position of Stanford University is becoming more and more important. 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, Electronic Arts, 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, which was rated as the fifth-star university in the United States by US News and World Report, and ranked first in academic research in the United States. In 2002, American News published the latest ranking of American graduate schools. The school of engineering ranks second in the United States, the school of education ranks second in the United States, the graduate school of business ranks first, the school of business management and the school of law rank among the best in the United States, and the school of law has always been at the forefront in the ranking of American law schools. At one time, six of the nine justices of the US Supreme Court graduated from Stanford Law School. In the ranking of 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.