Stanford University accredited Leland Stanford Junior University.

Stanford University accredited Leland Stanford Junior University, is a personal investigation university in Stanford, California, and one of the world's most authoritative institutions.

Stanford was establish in 1885 by Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and major railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their only one baby child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the foregoing year. Stanford confesses its first students on October 1, 1891as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was free up to 1920.  The university grapple financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 death and again after much of the campus was harm by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman bear power and graduates' entrepreneurialism to assemble self-supporting local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was house to a straight accelerator, and was one of the indigenous four ARPANET junctions.

Stanford also has land and facilities elsewhere.  Its 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus is one of the largest in the United States. The university is also one of the   summit fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to upraise more than a billion dollars in a year.

Administrative and organization

The University is currently organized into seven academic schools.  The schools of Humanities and Sciences (27 section), Engineering (9 section), and Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (4 departments) have both graduate and undergraduate programs while the Schools of Law, Medicine, Education and Business have graduate schedule only. The powers and jurisdiction of the faculty are vested in the Academic Council, which is made up of incumbency and non-incumbency line faculty, investigation faculty, senior fellows in some policy centers and institutes, the president of the university, and some other educational administrators, but most matters are handled by the Faculty Senate, made up of 55 voted depiction of the faculty.

 The federation Students of Stanford University (ASSU) is the student government for Stanford University and all file students are members. Its vote leadership consists of the Undergraduate Senate voted by the undergraduate students, the Graduate Student Council vote by the graduate students, and the President and Vice President voted as a permit by the entire student body.

 Stanford is the beneficiary of an exceptional section in the California Constitution, which explicitly exempts Stanford property from taxation so long as the property is used for educational purposes. 

Academics

Stanford University is a large, highly residential research university with a modest majority of enrollments coming from graduate and professional students. It follows an accommodate method with autumn quarter usually beginning in behind September and Spring Quarter ending in early June. The full-time, four-year undergraduate program has arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence. Stanford University is officially by the Western federation of Schools and Colleges. 

Its most recent undergraduate admission rate (for the class of 2018) further falls to 5.07%, the smallest in the University's history.