Stanford University, the full name of Leland Stanford Junior University, is located in Palo Alto, southern San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, near the high-tech park Silicon Valley. It is a private research university and a member of the global alliance of universities and research institutes.
Stanford University has laid a solid foundation for the formation and rise of Silicon Valley, and trained leaders of many high-tech companies, including founders of Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo, Nike, Logitech, Snapchat, American Art, Sun Micro, NVIDIA, Cisco and LinkedIn. According to the 20 19 list of ultra-high net worth alumni published by Wealth-X, a research company, Stanford University ranks second, second only to Harvard University.
Campus environment:
Stanford University covers an area of 865,438+080 acres (3,365,438+00 hectares, or 33 square kilometers) and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is in the northwest of Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley), about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of downtown San Francisco and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of San Jose. The university headquarters is near Palo Alto, separated by Stanford Street and Shashan Road. In addition to the main campus, university assets are also distributed in other peripheral places.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Stanford University