Stanford University

Stanford University

Stanford University is situated in the center of California's Silicon Valley, which lies between San Francisco and San Jose. The university established in 1891, it’s one of the world's leading educational institutions. The University admission started its first students on 1st October, 1891 as a coeducational  institution. It has been the top positioning in numerous rankings in the United States. 

In memory of only child, Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and prominent railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford founded Stanford dedicating their only son who had died of typhoid fever at age 15. The tuition was free until 1920, the university struggled financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 death and by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the campus was damaged.

The University occupies 8,180 acre land, which is one of the biggest in the United States. So that, many students use bicycles to get around the large campus.

The University is currently organized into seven academic schools. The schools of Science & Humanit  Engineering and Earth Sciences respectively 27, 9 and 4 departments have both graduate and undergraduate programs where as the Schools of Business, Education, Law and  Medicine have only  graduate programs.

Stanford University follows a quarter system, generally starting in late September and Spring Quarter ending in early June. The Stanford University Libraries have more than 9.3 million volumes, nearly 300,000 rare or special books, 1.5 million internet-books, 2.5 million audio-visual materials, 77,000 serials, and thousands of other digital resources; it is one of the largest academic library systems around the world.

Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies which includes Hewlett-Packard , Cisco Systems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Google, Wipro Technologies,  Nike,  PayPal,  Logitech,  Instagram, Snapchat,  Firefox, YouTube, LinkedIn, Match.com, WhatsApp  etc.

Stanford-educated executives include former Microsoft Chief Operating Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer, Google CEO Larry Page, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes,  Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito, CEO of Yahoo and president Marissa Mayer, Broadcom president and CEO Scott McGregor, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, CEMEX chairman and CEO Lorenzo Zambrano, Bank of America Merrill Lynch COO Thomas Montag, eBay president Jeffrey Skoll, Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat, Godrej Industries managing director Nadir Godrej, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani,  Dan Siroker founder and CEO of Optimizely, and Infosys CEO and managing director Vishal Sikka. There are many other living alumni produced by Stanford University.