斯坦福大学的简介(英文版)

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• The MIT ranks second.
• The University of California-Berkeley ranks third.
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Infrastructure
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library
Stanford University has 30 libraries, not only a collection of more than 650 million copies, and a fully computerized management.
• Education
• Engineering
• Humanitiehs and Sciences
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The world ranking of the Stanford
• The Stanford ranks forth in the world universities ranking.
• The University of Harvard ranks first.
Shaanxi Normal University:4 million paper quality books
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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.
Campus
2,700
8,180 contiguous acres
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Nearly 700 major buildings
97% of undergraduates live on campus
Research
5,500 externally sponsored projects
$1.22 billion total budget
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Canteen
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Health care
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Location
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History
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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.
Established 1885
Opened 1891
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• Leadership
• President Marc Tessier-Lavigne
• Provost John Etchemendy
• since 2000
• Seven Schools
• Business
• Earth Sciences
Hopkins to seek advice on
starting a new university in
California. Ultimately, they
decided to establish two
institutions in Leland Junior's
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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 Italy. Leland Jr. was just 15. Within weeks of his death, the Stanfords decided that, because they no longer could do anything for their own child, "the children of California shall be our children." They quickly set about to find a lasting way to memorialize their beloved son.
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The Stanfords considered
several possibilities – a
university, a technical school,
a museum. While on the East
Coast, they visited Harvard,
MIT, Cornell and Johns
The Stanford University
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Brief introduction
Shaanxi normal University Student Enrollment
17,600
6,994 undergraduates
9,128 graduates
Faculty
1,550 11:1
2,153 faculty members 20 Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community 4:1 student to faculty ratio
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