Stanford University

Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford, California, and one of the world’s leading technology and research universities. Since its founding in 1891, it has been committed to preparing students for leadership in a complex world. The university is additionally one of the top fundraising institutions in the United States, becoming the first school to raise a billion dollars in a year.

Stanford’s academic strength is expansive with 40 departments in the three academic schools that have undergraduate students and another four professional schools. Students compete in 36 varsity sports and the college is one of two private foundations in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has been awarded 108 NCAA group titles, the second-most for a college, 476 individual titles, the most in Division I, and has won the NACDA Directors’ Cup, recognizing the college with the best overall athletic team achievement, consistently since 1994-1995.

Stanford staff and graduated class have established numerous companies including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Instagram, Snapchat, and Yahoo!, and organizations established by Stanford graduated class produce more than $2.7 trillion in yearly income, equal to the tenth biggest economy on the planet.