Stanford University, full name Leland Stanford Junior University, referred to as "Stanford".
Palo Alto, located in the south of San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, near Silicon Valley, a high-tech park, is a private research university, a member of the Global Forum of University Presidents and a member of the Global Alliance of Higher Education Institutions.
Stanford University 1885 was founded, 189 1 officially enrolled students. It covers an area of about 33 square kilometers (8 180 acres) and is one of the largest universities in the United States.
There are 65,438+0,534 faculty members in Stanford University, of which 665,438+0% are tenured professors. By 2020, there will be 19 Nobel Prize winners, 1 Fields Prize winners and 163 members of the National Academy of Sciences.
10 1 Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 287 Members of the American Academy of Arts, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, 18 national medal of science award Prize winners and 29 MacArthur Prize winners.