A few facts about Stanford

Stanford Facts:

STUDENT ENROLLMENT

• Undergraduates: 6,999
• Graduates: 8,871

CAMPUS

• 8,180 contiguous acres in six governmental jurisdictions
• Nearly 700 major buildings
• 96% of undergraduates live on campus

ENDOWMENT

• $18.7 billion (as of August 2013)

RESEARCH

• 5,100 externally sponsored projects
• $1.35 billion total budget

LEADERSHIP

• President John Hennessy, since 2000
• Provost John Etchemendy, since 2000

The dream college poll showed that there are a good amount of people, who want to go to Stanford, so I thought it would be a good idea to post a few facts about Stanford to the blog.  For more information check their website, http://stanford.edu, or the Forbes Top 100 list ,http://www.forbes.com/colleges/stanford-university/.

ESTABLISHED 1885

FACULTY

• 1,995 faculty members
• 22 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community
• 5:1 student to faculty ratio

SEVEN SCHOOLS

• Business
• Earth Sciences
• Education
• Engineering
• Humanities and Sciences
• Law
• Medicine