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Stanford University is a private institution located in the heart of infamous Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1885. The founders of the university, Leland Stanford and wife Jane Stanford named the university after their son who died at the age of 16. Unlike many other institutions who maintained sister schools for women, it had a coeducational education system, although there was a cap on the number of women it inducted. Today the university has outstanding reputation in the entire world and there is no difference between male, female or minority students. It attracts students from around the globe. Since its inception the university has strong emphasis on providing progressive education in science, research, social sciences and arts and humanities.

The university follows a quarter systems for all undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Undergraduate student body alone consists of 6,576 students and nearly 8000 students are enrolled in the graduate and professional education. Regular faculty consists of 1700 teachers. Tuition fee is approximately $33,000 per year whereas living at campus housing costs $10,367. Most of the students live at campus and are involved into a number of community, social and athletics activities along with quality education.

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In United States the ranking of Stanford is 4th in overall education standard and in the world it is highly ranked by many news resources due to quality of education in science and research which is a remarkable university achievement. The university is associated with 18 Nobel Prize winners and countless award winners who constitute the faculty. Not only quality of education and exceptional faculty has developed the institutions reputation but it has also earned it through becoming a pioneer institution for Silicon Valley. Its top education in science, engineering and business led to the development of Google, yahoo Sun and many other multibillionaire entrepreneurs.

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Stanford University comprises of several schools namely School of Education, Stanford Law School, Stanford University School of Medicine, School of Earth Sciences, School of Humanities and Sciences, Graduate School of Business, and School of Engineering. Through these schools the university offers many degrees which include, B.S., B.A., B.A.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D., Ed.S., M.D., J.D., J.S.M., M.A.T., ENG, M.S.M., M.B.A., D.M.A., M.L.S., LL.M., J.S.D., Ed.D., and M.F.A.,

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Students ratio of male and female are approximately even at undergraduate level where as in graduate degree programs the ratio is 2 to 1. 94 percent of the students live on campus. The residential houses are considered to be theme houses for the promotion of cross culture, arts or other focused themes. At any given time almost 50 percent of students are present in university housing. Total student population is involved in some form of exercise or sports. University houses tennis competitions, football matches and many other indoor and outdoor activities.

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The websites main page provides latest news and events. Stanford has no religious affiliation and therefore attracts students from all over the world. Due to this a number of community events are organized by societies registered at Stanford. Official home page leads to news section which contains every piece of latest and archived news posts regarding campus matters. Right on the home page there is an index listed from A to Z which categorizes university registered websites of student organizations, societies, alumni and university academics. Furthermore you can follow the respective links for admission information, university faculty, administration and department information and about the alumni, student life and campus activities.

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Stanford University

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Stanford CA

UNITED STATES 94305-4122

(650) 723-4328

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