The
Leland Stanford Junior University
, often called
Stanford University
(or simply
Stanford
), is a
private
university
next to
Palo Alto
in
California
, in the middle of
Silicon Valley
,
about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of
San Francisco
and about 20 miles northwest of
San Jose
, in
Santa Clara County
.
Leland
and
Jane Stanford
opened the university on
1 October
1891
. They named the university after their son, Leland Stanford Junior, who died at young age.
With one of the largest university campuses in the United States, the university includes the Schools of Engineering, Law, Medicine, Education, Business, Earth Sciences, and Humanities and Sciences. Stanford also hosts
volunteer
programs and a teaching hospital.
Leland Stanford Junior died in Europe in 1884. His parents,
Leland
and
Jane Stanford
, were rich and influential Californians. They chose to turn a farm they already owned into a large university, as a memorial to their curious son.
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Stanford had early trouble, as the school ran low on money, and was hurt by the
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
.
Herbert Hoover
, who later became the
US President
, helped the school improve its operations, and later university leaders pushed students and alumni to develop the surrounding area. By the 1950s, cities around Stanford University were filling with technology companies, starting what became
Silicon Valley
.
Stanford has many special areas. In honor of Stanford graduate and US president Herbert Hoover, Stanford hosts a large
think tank
and archive called the
Hoover Institution
. Many former students, like the founders of
HP,
donate lots of money and have buildings named after them. A large
radio telescope
called "The Dish" sits on the hills above Stanford.
Stanford has about 7,000 undergraduate students, and a larger number of students working on advanced degrees.
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Few high school students who apply to Stanford are accepted - over the last several years, only four out of every hundred students who applied were offered a spot.
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