Stanford College (formally Leland Stanford Junior College) is a private examination college in Stanford, California, and one of the world's driving instructive organizations, with the top position in various rankings and measures in the United States.
Stanford was established in 1885 by Leland Stanford, previous Legislative head of and U.S. Representative from California and driving railroad big shot, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their just tyke, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had kicked the bucket of typhoid fever at age 15 the earlier year. Stanford conceded its first understudies on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational establishment.
The principle grounds is situated in northern Santa Clause Clara Valley adjoining Palo Alto and between San Jose and San Francisco. Different property, for example, labs, and nature stores, are situated outside the fundamental grounds. Its 8,180-section of land (3,310 ha) grounds is one of the biggest in the United States. The college is additionally one of the top gathering pledges organizations in the nation, turning into the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.
Stanford's scholastic quality is wide with 40 divisions in the three scholarly schools that have college understudies and another four expert schools. Understudies contend in 36 varsity sports, and the college is one of two private organizations in the Division I FBS Pacific-12 Gathering.
Stanford enlisted 7,061 undergrad and 11,075 graduate understudies as of October 2013, and ladies involved 47% of students and 41% of expert and graduate understudies. In the same scholarly year, the green bean consistency standard was 99%.
With respect to examination, Stanford granted 1,715 college degrees, 2,278 Graduate degrees, 764 doctoral degrees, and 366 expert degrees in the 2011–2012 school year. The four-year graduation rate in the class of 2011 is 76%, and the six-year rate is 96%. The moderately low four-year graduation rate is a component of the college's coterminal degree (or "coterm") program, which permits understudies to gain a graduate degree as an augmentation of their undergrad program.
As of 2010, fifteen percent of undergraduates are first-generation students
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