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Stanford University

Also known as Leland Stanford Junior University, University of Stanford, Stanford, The Farm, stanford.edu, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Leland Stanford University

private research university in Stanford, California, USA

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Stanford University is a private research university located in Stanford, California, that conducts advanced studies and investigations across many academic fields. It is widely recognized as one of the leading institutions for higher education and research in the United States.

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Official website: stanford.edu
Image: Stanford Oval May 2011 panorama.jpg

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Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth governor of and then-incumbent United States senator representing California) and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.

The university admitted its first students in 1891, opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry (later Silicon Valley). In 1951, Stanford Research Park was established in Palo Alto as the world's first university research park. By 2021, the university had 2,288 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical faculty on staff.