Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford, dedicated to the memory of Leland Stanford Jr, their only child. The institution opened in 1891 on Stanford's previous Palo Alto farm.
Jane and Leland Stanford

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Most of Stanford is on an 8,180-acre (12.8 sq mi; 33.1 km ) campus, one of the largest in the United States. It is on the San Francisco Peninsula,

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Stanford is a private, non-profit university administered as a corporate trust governed by a privately appointed board of trusteeswith a maximum membership of 38. Trustees serve five-year terms (not more than two consecutive terms) and meet five times annually. A new

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Natural sciences
• Biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) – Arthur Kornberg synthesized DNA material and won the

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Admissions
Stanford is considered by US Newsto be 'most selective', with an acceptance rate of 4%. Half of applicants accepted to Stanford have an SAT

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Student body
Stanford enrolled 6,996 undergraduate and 10,253 graduate students as of the 2019–2020 school year. Women comprised 50.4% of undergraduates and 41.5% of graduate students. In the same academic year, the

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As of late 2020, Stanford had 2,279 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows, center fellows, and medical center faculty.
Award laureates and

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