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Stanford University
Stanford University in Stanford
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States with a strong emphasis on scientific, technological and social science research. The university is located on an 8,180-acre campus in northwestern Santa Clara Valley approximately 20 miles northwest of San Jose and 37 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Leland Stanford, a Californian railroad tycoon and politician, founded the university in 1891 in honor of his son, Leland Stanford, Jr. who died of typhoid at the age of 16. The university was established as a coeducational and nondenominational institution, but struggled financially after the senior Stanford's 1893 death and 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 become known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, one of the original four ARPANET nodes, and had transformed itself into a major research university in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, and social sciences. More than 50 Stanford faculty, staff and alumni have won the Nobel Prize (list of Nobel Laureates by university affiliation). Stanford also boasts the largest number of Turing award winners (considered the Nobel Prize of computer science) for a single institution. Stanford faculty and alumni have founded many tech companies, e.g., Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, LinkedIn, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, and Google.

The university is organized into seven schools including academic schools of Humanities and Sciences and Earth Sciences as well as professional schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. Stanford has a student body of approximately 6,900 undergraduate and 8,400 graduate students.Stanford is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and managed US$1.15 billion in research funding and $15.9 billion in endowment support in 2010.

Stanford competes in 34 varsity sports and is one of two private universities in the NCAA Division I-A Pacific-10 Conference. Stanford's athletic program has won the NACDA Directors' Cup annually since 1995.The University of California, Berkeley is Stanford's traditional rival, and the football teams compete annually in the "Big Game".

Visitors to Stanford can join guided tours of the campus or explore the grounds on their own. Guided campus walking tours leave daily, except during certain academic breaks, at 11 a.m., and 3:15 p.m. from the Memorial Auditorium information booth, across from Hoover Tower. Tours by motorized cart are also available.
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