Stanford University

Stanford University is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1885. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 7,061, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 8,180 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based bookish calendar. Stanford University's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Universities, 4. Its charge and fees are $44,757 (2014-15).
Stanford University’s aboriginal campus is amid in California’s Bay Area, about 30 afar from San Francisco. Stanford offers a advanced ambit of apprentice organizations, including the Stanford Pre-Business Association and Stanford Solar Car Project, which designs, builds and contest a solar car every two years. The Stanford Cardinals are able-bodied accepted for the acceptable "Big Game" adjoin Cal, an anniversary football antagonism that awards the Stanford Axe—a approved trophy—to the victor. Stanford aswell has acknowledged programs in tennis and golf. Only apprentice are appropriate to reside on campus, but acceptance are affirmed apartment for all four years and a lot of accept to abide on campus. Greek activity at Stanford represents about 10 percent of the apprentice body.

Four of Stanford University’s seven schools action undergraduate and alum coursework, and the actual three serve as absolutely alum schools. Alum programs cover the awful ranked School of Education, School of Engineering, Law School, School of Medicine and the top-ranked Alum School of Business. The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment oversees accord amid ecology research, teaching and outreach. Stanford has a amount of acclaimed affected and agreeable groups, including the Ram’s Head Affected Society and the Mendicants, an all-male a cappella group. Notable Stanford alumni cover above U.S. President Herbert Hoover, acclaimed NFL quarterback John Elway, extra Sigourney Weaver and golfer Tiger Woods, who began his able career at Stanford.