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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 ]
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.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business school in the United States, [ 3 ] admitting only about 6% of applicants.
Fred Hargadon was the Dean of Admissions at Swarthmore College from 1964-1969, Stanford University from 1969 to 1984, and Princeton University from 1988 to 2003. He was a national leader in the field of university and college admission. In 1984 The New York Times described him as "the dean of deans". [1]
Stanford OHS operates on a need-blind admissions process for both domestic and international students, and commits to ensuring that both continuing and newly admitted students can attend, regardless of their financial status. In the 2023–24 school year, Stanford OHS allocated over $2.5 million in financial aid, including Malone scholarships.
Stanford University apologized Wednesday for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s — practice that the school, for decades, denied had taken place.
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] Stanford is one of several schools in the United States to use the multiple mini-interview system, developed at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, to evaluate candidates. [14]
Stanford was set up with a Political Science department but that was almost immediately renamed Economics and Social Science. The forerunner of the current Political Science department was established in 1918. Sociology and Anthropology were originally one department established in 1948. They split in 1957.