斯坦福大学的简介(英文版).pptVIP

The Stanford University Brief introduction Student Enrollment 6,994 undergraduates 9,128 graduates Faculty 2,153 faculty members 20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community 4:1 student to faculty ratio Campus 8,180 contiguous acres Nearly 700 major buildings 97% of undergraduates live on campus Research 5,500 externally sponsored projects $1.22 billion total budget Established 1885Opened 1891 17,600 1,550 11:1 Shaanxi normal University 2,700 21 Leadership President Marc Tessier-Lavigne Provost John Etchemendy since 2000 Seven Schools Business Earth Sciences Education Engineering Humanities and Sciences Law Medicine Endowment $22.2 billion (as of Aug. 31, 2015) The world ranking of the Stanford The Stanford ranks forth in the world universities ranking. The University of Harvard ranks first. The MIT ranks second. The University of California-Berkeley ranks third. Infrastructure library Stanford University has 30 libraries, not only a collection of more than 650 million copies, and a fully computerized management. Shaanxi Normal University:4 million paper quality books Sports facility The school's sports facilities can accommodate 85,000 people stadium, golf course,baseball park, softball field and swimming pool, fully reflects the benefits of campus area. Canteen Health care Location History The rudiment of the Stanford In 1876, former California Governor Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his famous Palo Alto Stock Farm. He later bought adjoining properties totaling more than 8,000 acres. Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads. He was a leader of the Republican Party, governor of California and later a U.S. senator. He and Jane had one son, who died of typhoid fever in 1884 when the family was traveling in Ital