Stanford University

Address: 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States

Admission rate: 5.1% (2014)

Football stadium: Stanford Stadium

Number of participants: 15 877 (2013)

Foundation date: 11 November 1885

Phone: + 1 650-723-2300

Founders : Leland Stanford, Jane Stanford

Web site: www.stanford.edu

Stanford had won a place in the 2011 and preserves from the second position in the ranking of best universities in the world. The campus, located south of San Francisco, welcomes about 16,000 students primarily in medicine, humanities and engineering school. Stanford takes advantage of its innovative research centers that House the best researchers in the world physics, biology and computer science and dozens of companies specializing in research and development. It is here that among other things invented the secure email and completed the sequencing of the genome. In 2008, approximately 400 inventions reported.

Note on 100: 72.6

Number of students: 15 861

Country: United States

Position in 2012: 2nd