Stanford University

Stanford University has a full name of a University named for Leland Stanford Junior is a private school in the United States of America. The University is one of the most popular in the country and the World. It is located near the city of Palo Alto.

Every year the University receives about eight thousand students and as many graduate students from around the world. Taught in different languages and faculties, among which the most popular are medical, technical, musical and ethnological. University can be attributed to the universities continuing education, as its structure contains different types of schools and research and scientific centers. Graduates of the University founded the famous today Hewlett Packard, EA (Electronic Arts), Nvidia, Google, Yahoo! and many others.

The Stanford students take part in competitions in 36 sports, and the University is one of two private universities that compete in the first football division of the conference Pacific-12. During the existence of the athletic programs at the University, his team has won 105 NCAA titles, which is second lowest among all schools.

Includes scientific and industrial territorial complex (the so-called Stanford research Park).

University students tuck their active participation in various competitions in 40 kinds of sport, music and art arts, and the University has the coolest football team, which participates in the global football competition of the Pacific 12. During the existence of the program 105 the championship title went to the University, which is second among all the world's educational institutions.

History

Stanford was founded by railroad magnate, U.S. Senator and former Governor of California Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Stanford. The University is named in honor of their only son, Leland Stanford (Jr.), who died in 1884, and did not live up to 16 years. Stanford decided to dedicate a University to their only son, and Leland said to his wife: 'the Children of California will be our children.'

Senator and Mrs. Stanford visited Harvard President Charles Eliot (Charles Eliot) and asked him how much money it would take to create a second Harvard in Palo Alto. Eliot called the amount of 15 million dollars. However, suggesting E. D. white, President of Cornell University, to become the first rector of Stanford, the couple received a polite refusal. Instead, E. D. white advised them to David Starr Jordan, his former student and President of Indiana University. On it the couple eventually chose, although offered leaders of the ivy League's salary twice.

The motto of the new University selected by David Jordan, sounded: 'Die Luft der Freiheit weht' (the wind of freedom) — is a quote from Ulrich von Hutten. So the motto treated during the First world war, when the words are in German, taken in arms. Then the University announced that the slogan is not official.

At University, Philip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford prison experiment.

Ratings

In 2011, Stanford University ranked second in Academic ranking of world universities, fifth in the ranking of the best universities in the U.S. according to Forbes, the fourth place in the national rankings from Washington Monthly and fifth place in the ranking of U. S. News & World Report. In the ranking of the 2016 version of the UniPage University took the 3rd place in the country and 3rd place in the world.

Stanford University, located in the center of Silicon valley (California) between San Francisco and San Jose, is one of the world's leading teaching and research universities. Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has dedicated himself to finding solutions to the most complex and global challenges and prepare students to manage a complex world. The University is known for strong entrepreneurial orientation, laid down by its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford, and its close ties with Silicon valley. The University has achieved outstanding results in the broadest range of disciplines – from the Humanities to social studies, technology subjects and exact Sciences. Stanford is considered the second most popular University in the U.S. after Harvard annually accept about 7% of all applying candidates. Among its graduates – the founders of the most powerful corporations (Hewlett-Packard, Google and others). In the third of the richest universities in the world has about 7,000 undergraduate and around 4,000 graduate students.

University Leland Stanford Jr. was founded in 1885 by California Senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only son, Leland Jr., at the age of 15 died of typhoid fever. After his death in 1884 years Stanford decided to use their wealth 'for the benefit of other people's children'. They decided to establish a University radically different from the traditional universities of the time: the training was a joint, despite the fact that most American private universities in the nineteenth century was male; he didn't belong to one denomination, while almost all schools were closely associated with religious organizations; and finally, Stanford was conceived as an exceptionally practical school that produced not only the 'cultural and healthy society of citizens', while most universities only cared about the cultural level of the graduates. The mission of the University the Charter sets out how 'to educate students in the skills needed for a successful future, useful and applicable in life', and the goal is 'promoting the public welfare through its influence on the minds in the interests of humanity and civilization.'

Stanford University received the most talented and bright students from around the world. Here are some of the most famous graduates:

• Scientists and inventors: co-author network protocols TCP/IP, Vinton CERF; the designer of systems of noise reduction ray Dolby, the inventor of the 56K modem, Brent Townsend.
• Successful business: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer; the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Lawrence page; co-founder of Gap. Inc Doris Fisher; Chairman and chief Executive officer of Nike Inc. Philip knight, founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel; the founders of Yahoo! Jerry Yang and David Filo.
• Government officials: Former President of Peru, Alejandro Toledo; former U.S. President Herbert Hoover; U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus, Ron Wyden and Dianne Feinstein; acting Supreme court justices Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy and former Supreme court justice Sandra day O'connor.

Stanford took first place in numerous national rankings of universities, therefore a popular American magazine Slate called it 'the Harvard of the XXI century', and the newspaper The New York Times concluded that 'Stanford University has become the ideal of the American University.'