Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a clandestine analysis university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's arch educational institutions, with the top position in abundant rankings and measures in the United States.
Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, above Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and arch railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in anamnesis of their alone child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid agitation at age 15 the antecedent year. Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was chargeless until 1920. The university struggled financially afterwards Leland Stanford's 1893 afterlife and afresh afterwards abundant of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman accurate adroitness and graduates' entrepreneurialism to body arrogant belted industry in what would after be accepted as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a beeline accelerator, and was one of the aboriginal four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).

History

The university clearly opened on October 1, 1891 to 555 students. On the university's aperture day, Founding President David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: "is anointed by no traditions; it is bedfast by none. Its feel posts all point forward. However, abundant preceded the aperture and connected for several years until the afterlife of the endure Founder, Jane Stanford, in 1905 and the abolition of the 1906 earthquake.

Campus


Stanford University is amid on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the northwest allotment of the Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley) about 37 afar (60 km) southeast of San Francisco and about 20 afar (32 km) northwest of San Jose. In 2008, 60% of this acreage remained undeveloped. The capital campus is adjoining to Palo Alto, belted by El Camino Real, Stanford Avenue, Junipero Serra Boulevard, and Sand Hill Road. The university aswell operates at several added limited locations (see below).