Stanford University officially Leland Stanford Junior University is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres (3,310 hectares), among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is ranked among the most prestigious universities in the world.

Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a U.S. senator and former governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley.

Faculties

• Aeronautics & Astronautics Department
• Anesthesia Department
• Anthropology
• Applied Physics Department
• Art & Art History Department  
• Biochemistry Department
• Bioengineering Department
• Biology Department
• Biology, Developmental
• Biomedical Informatics
• Business, Graduate School of  
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Department
• Chemical and Systems Biology
• Chemical Engineering Department
• Chemistry Department
• Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
• Classics Department
• Communication Department
• Comparative Literature Department
• Comparative Medicine Department
• Computer Science Department  
• Dermatology Department
• Developmental Biology Department 
• Earth System Science
• Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, School of
• East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
• Economics Department
• Education, Graduate School of
• Electrical Engineering Department
• Energy Resources Engineering Department
• Engineering, School of
• English Department
• French and Italian Department 
• Genetics Department
• Geological Sciences Department
• Geophysics Department
• German Studies Department  
• Health Research & Policy Department
• History Department
• Humanities & Sciences, School of
• Iberian & Latin American Cultures Department
• Law School
• Linguistics Department
• Management Science & Engineering Department
• Materials Science & Engineering Department
• Mathematics Department
• Mechanical Engineering Department
• Medicine Department
• Medicine, School of
• Microbiology & Immunology Department
• Molecular & Cellular Physiology Department
• Music Department 
• Neurobiology Department
• Neurology & Neurological Sciences Department
• Neurosurgery Department  
• Obstetrics and Gynecology Department
• Ophthalmology Department
• Orthopaedic Surgery Department
• Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery) Department 
• Pathology Department
• Pediatrics Department
• Philosophy Department
• Photon Science (SLAC)
• Physics Department
• Political Science Department
• Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department
• Psychology Department  
• Radiation Oncology Department
• Radiology Department
• Religious Studies Department
• Slavic Languages and Literature Department
• Sociology Department
• Statistics Department
• Structural Biology Department
• Surgery Department
• Theater and Performance Studies
• Urology Department