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The rate is down from 5.05% last year, and will likely be the number Ivy League colleges will be chasing to become the 'most competitive' elite college. Stanford University's acceptance rate hit ...
In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Stanford was ranked fourth in the nation among medical schools for research. [12] Admission to the MD program at Stanford is highly competitive: in 2019, 6,894 people applied, 422 were interviewed, and 175 accepted for 90 spots. [13]
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the most selective business school in the United States. [34] It has maintained the highest ratio of "applicants to available seats" of any business school in the U.S. for the last decade. It has also had the lowest acceptance rates (typically <7%) of any business school.
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.
Nils Nilsson (Ph.D. 1958 computer science), led the effort in developing Shakey the robot at SRI, professor of engineering, emeritus in computer science at Stanford University; Charles Ogletree (A.B. 1975, A.M. 1975), professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and justice
Sebastian Thrun, director of Stanford AI LAB; team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry Stanley won the 2005 DARPA grand challenge; Jeff Ullman, professor in CS, IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner; Terry Winograd, faculty in CS, winner of 2010 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award; Keith Winstein, faculty in CS, author of Mosh
The Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, also known as EE; Double E, is a department at Stanford University. Established in 1894, [ 7 ] it is one of nine engineering departments that comprise the school of engineering, [ 8 ] and in 1971, had the largest graduate enrollment of any department at Stanford University. [ 9 ]
[9] [10] In addition, according to a Stanford alumni survey conducted in 2011, some 39,900 companies founded by Stanford alumni were active, and companies founded by Stanford alumni altogether generated more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and had created 5.4 million jobs, roughly equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world (2011).