Editing Stanford University (section)

== Academics ==

=== Admissions ===
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! colspan="10" |First-time fall freshman statistics
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!2021<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Common Data Set 2021–2022 |date=<!--Undated--> |publisher=Stanford Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2022/01/stanford_cds_2021_2022.pdf |access-date=March 20, 2022 |quote=For common datasets from 2008–present, see ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126031724/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2022/01/stanford_cds_2021_2022.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>
!2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Common Data Set 2020–2021 |date=<!--Undated--> |publisher=Stanford Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/06/stanford_cds_2020_2021_v5.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2021 |quote=For common datasets from 2008–present, see ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827203554/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/06/stanford_cds_2020_2021_v5.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
!2019<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=<!--Undated--> |title=Stanford University Common Data Set 2019–2020 |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/12/stanford-cds-2019.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2021 |publisher=Stanford Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support |language=en-US |quote=For common datasets from 2008–present, see ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |archive-date=October 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018233630/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/12/stanford-cds-2019.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
!2018<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Common Data Set 2018–2019 |date=<!--Undated--> |publisher=Stanford Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/01/stanford-cds-2018.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2021 |quote=For common datasets from 2008–present, see ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233507/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/01/stanford-cds-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
!2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Common Data Set 2017–2018 |date=<!--Undated--> |publisher=Stanford Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2018/06/stanford-cds-2017.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2021 |quote=For common datasets from 2008–present, see ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233507/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2018/06/stanford-cds-2017.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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!Applicants
|55,471
|45,227
|47,498
|47,452
|44,073
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!Admits
|2,190
|2,349
|2,062
|2,071
|2,085
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!Admit rate
|3.9%
|5.19%
|4.34%
|4.36%
|4.73%
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!Enrolled
|1,757
|1,607
|1,701
|1,697
|1,703
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![[Yield (college admissions)|Yield]]
|80.23%
|68.41%
|82.49%
|81.94%
|81.68%
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!SAT range
|1420–1570
|1420–1550
|1440–1550
|1420–1570
|1390–1540
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!ACT range
|32–35
|31–35
|32–35
|32–35
|32–35
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Stanford is considered by ''[[U.S. News & World Report|US News]]'' to be 'most selective' with an acceptance rate of 4%, one of the lowest 
among US universities. Half of the applicants accepted to Stanford have an [[SAT]] score between 1440 and 1570 or an [[ACT (test)|ACT]] score between 32 and 35, typically with a GPA of 3.94 or higher. Admissions officials consider a student's [[Grading in education|grade point average]] to be an important academic factor, with emphasis on an applicant's high school class rank and letters of recommendation.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305/applying |access-date=February 3, 2021 |website=[[US News]] |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234021/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305/applying |url-status=live }}</ref> In terms of non-academic materials as of 2019, Stanford ranks extracurricular activities, talent/ability and character/personal qualities as 'very important' in making first-time, first-year admission decisions, while ranking the interview, whether the applicant is a first-generation university applicant, [[legacy preferences]], volunteer work and work experience as 'considered'.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-31 |title=Frosh of '28 admitted to the Farm |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/31/frosh-of-28-admitted-to-the-farm/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234012/https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/31/frosh-of-28-admitted-to-the-farm/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Of those students accepted to Stanford's Class of 2026, 1,736 chose to attend, of which 21% were first-generation college students.

Stanford's admission process is [[Need-blind admission|need-blind]] for U.S. citizens and permanent residents;<ref>{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Basics |url=https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/ |website=Financial Aid |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=4 May 2023 |archive-date=May 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504072114/https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/ |url-status=live }}</ref> while it is not need-blind for international students, 64% are on need-based aid, with an average aid package of $31,411.<ref name="CDS">{{cite web |title=Stanford Common Data Set 2019–2020 |url=https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430215002/https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, the university awarded $126 million in need-based financial aid to 3,485 students, with an average aid package of $40,460.<ref name="CDS" /> Eighty percent of students receive some form of financial aid.<ref name="CDS" /> Stanford has a no-loan policy.<ref name="CDS" /> For undergraduates admitted starting in 2015, Stanford waives tuition, room, and board for most families with incomes below $65,000, and most families with incomes below $125,000 are not required to pay tuition; those with incomes up to $150,000 may have tuition significantly reduced.<ref name="FA">{{cite news |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html |title=Stanford offers admission to 2,144 students, expands financial aid program |date=March 27, 2015 |agency=Stanford News |access-date=May 2, 2015 |archive-date=May 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501201610/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/new-admits-finaid-032715.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Seventeen percent of students receive [[Pell Grant]]s,<ref name="CDS" /> a common measure of low-income students at a college. In 2022, Stanford started its first dual-enrollment computer science program for high school students from low-income communities,<ref name="SRT">{{cite news |url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/01/26/high-school-students-welcomed-stanford-family/ |title=High school students welcomed to the Stanford family |date=January 26, 2022 |agency=Stanford Report |access-date=September 18, 2022 |archive-date=September 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220916163659/https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/01/26/high-school-students-welcomed-stanford-family/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as a pilot project which then inspired the founding of the Qualia Global Scholars Program.<ref>{{cite web |author=Sha |first=Brian |date=April 10, 2022 |title=What I learned teaching a Stanford computer science class to high school students |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/04/10/what-i-learned-teaching-a-stanford-computer-science-class-to-high-school-students/ |access-date=September 18, 2022 |website=stanforddaily.com |publisher=[[The Stanford Daily]] |language=en-US |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920172236/https://stanforddaily.com/2022/04/10/what-i-learned-teaching-a-stanford-computer-science-class-to-high-school-students/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Stanford plans to expand the program to include courses in Structured Liberal Education and writing.<ref name="SRT" />

=== Teaching and learning ===
Stanford follows a quarter system with the autumn quarter usually beginning in late September and the spring quarter ending in mid-June.<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications—Stanford University |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=243744 |access-date=January 22, 2014 |publisher=Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |language=en-US |archive-date=June 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603125240/http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=243744 |url-status=live }}</ref> The full-time, four-year undergraduate program has arts and sciences focus with high graduate student coexistence.<ref name="Carnegie" /> Stanford is accredited by the [[Western Association of Schools and Colleges]] with the latest review in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=Accreditation |url=https://wasc.stanford.edu/ |website=wasc.stanford.edu |access-date=23 July 2023 |language=en |archive-date=February 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210223841/https://wasc.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Research centers and institutes ===
{{Main|Stanford University centers and institutes}}

Stanford is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity."<ref name="Carnegie"/> The university's research expenditure in fiscal years of 2021/22 was $1.82 billion and the total number of sponsored projects was 7,900.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanford Facts |url=https://facts.stanford.edu/ |website=stanford.edu |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-date=January 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120020326/https://facts.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2016, the Office of the Vice Provost and Dean of Research oversaw [[Stanford University centers and institutes|eighteen independent laboratories, centers, and institutes]]. [[Kathryn Moler|Kathryn Ann Moler]] is the key person for leading those research centers for choosing problems, faculty members, and students. Funding is also provided for undergraduate and graduate students by those labs, centers, and institutes for collaborative research.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |title=Interdisciplinary Laboratories, Centers, and Institutes |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-date=October 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192357/https://doresearch.stanford.edu/node/1200502 |url-status=live }}</ref> Other Stanford-affiliated institutions include the [[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory]] (originally the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), the [[Stanford Research Institute]] (an independent institution which originated at the university), the [[Hoover Institution]] (a conservative [[think tank]]),<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019 |title=Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Return to Hoover Institution |work=U.S. News |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |access-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234022/https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-19/former-defense-secretary-jim-mattis-to-return-to-hoover-institution |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Hasso Plattner Institute of Design]] (a multidisciplinary design school in cooperation with the [[Hasso Plattner Institute]] of [[University of Potsdam]] that integrates product design, engineering, and business management education).
[[File:Hoover Tower Stanford January 2013.jpg|thumb|upright|Hoover Tower, inspired by the cathedral tower at [[Salamanca]] in Spain]]
Stanford is home to the [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] Research and Education Institute, which grew out of and still contains the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, a collaboration with the [[King Center for Nonviolent Social Change|King Center]] to publish the King papers held by the King Center.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King Papers Project |date=June 11, 2014 |url=http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index/ |publisher=The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute |access-date=August 4, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315034339/http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/kingpapers/index |url-status=dead }}</ref> It also runs the [[John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists|John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists]] and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to address challenges facing the ocean. It focuses on five points: climate change, overfishing, coastal development, pollution, and plastics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |title=Center for Ocean Solutions |publisher=Stanford Woods |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911084001/https://woods.stanford.edu/research/centers-programs/center-ocean-solutions |url-status=dead }}</ref> Together with [[UC Berkeley]] and [[UC San Francisco]], Stanford is part of the [[Biohub]], a new medical science research center founded in 2016 by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and pediatrician [[Priscilla Chan]]. This medical research center is working for designing advanced-level health care units.<ref>{{Cite news |title=CNN Business News |work=CNN |url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |access-date=March 10, 2022 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234015/https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/21/technology/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-3-billion-health-disease/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Libraries and digital resources ===
[[File:Stanford University Green Library Bing Wing.jpg|thumb|right|[[Green Library]]]]
{{Main|Stanford University Libraries}}
By 2014, [[Stanford University Libraries]] (SUL) had twenty-four libraries in total. The [[Hoover Institution Library and Archives]] is a research center based on history of 20th-century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hoover Institution Library and Archives |url=https://www.hoover.org/library-archives |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227103001/https://www.hoover.org/library-archives |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stanford University Libraries]] (SUL) held a collection of more than 9.3 million volumes, nearly 300,000 rare or special books, 1.5 million e-books, 2.5 million audiovisual materials, 77,000 serials, nearly 6 million microform holdings, and thousands of other digital resources.<ref name="stanford_facts_SULAIR">{{cite web |url=http://facts.stanford.edu/research/libraries |publisher=Stanford University |date=2014 |title=Stanford Facts: Stanford Libraries |access-date=December 11, 2014 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025359/https://facts.stanford.edu/research/libraries/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Books, media, & more |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517191438/https://searchworks.stanford.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The main library in the SU library system is the [[Cecil H. Green Library|Green Library]], which also contains various meeting and conference rooms, study spaces, and reading rooms. [[Lathrop Library]] (previously [[Meyer Library]], demolished in 2015), holds various student-accessible media resources and houses one of the largest [[East Asia]] collections with 540,000 volumes. [[Stanford University Press]], founded in 1892, published about 130 books per year has printed more than 3,000 books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books |url=https://www.sup.org/books/ |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519124154/https://www.sup.org/books/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It also has fifteen subject areas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University Press (SUP) |url=https://www.sup.org/ |access-date=April 11, 2022 |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407190842/https://www.sup.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Online encyclopedia ====
{{main|Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}

The ''[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]'' is a leading [[online encyclopedia]] and academic resource on the subject of [[philosophy]], published and maintained by the university. The encyclopedia was founded by Stanford senior researcher [[Edward Zalta]] in 1995.<ref name=Zalta>{{Cite journal|last=Zalta|first=Edward|date=2006-09-01|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A university/library partnership in support of scholarly communication and open access|journal=College & Research Libraries News|volume=67|issue=8|pages=502–504|doi=10.5860/crln.67.8.7670|issn=2150-6698|url=http://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/download/7670/7670|doi-access=free}}</ref>

=== Arts ===
[[File:Les-bourgeois-de-Calais.jpg|thumb|left|Bronze statues by [[Auguste Rodin]] are scattered throughout the campus, including these ''[[The Burghers of Calais|Burghers of Calais]]'']]

Stanford is home to the [[Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts|Cantor Center for Visual Arts]], a museum established with the help of art collector [[B. Gerald Cantor]]. It today consists of twenty-four galleries, sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard first established in 1891 by Jane and Leland Stanford as a memorial to their only child. The university's collection of works by [[Auguste Rodin]] is among the largest in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |title=Rodin! The Complete Stanford Collection |publisher=Cantor Arts Center |access-date=April 16, 2014 |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513153638/http://museum.stanford.edu/view/rodin.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with as many as 200 sculptures at the Cantor Center alone. These include an original bronze cast of ''[[The Thinker]]'' granted residence at Stanford by Cantor in 1988, with the university expected to attain full ownership sometime in the future. The Stanford ''Thinker'' has been loaned for viewing around the world and features across the university's iconography and culture,<ref>[https://stanforddaily.com/2012/01/24/rodins-iconic-sculpture-the-thinker-returns-to-stanford/ "Rodin’s iconic sculpture, ‘The Thinker,’ returns to Stanford"] ''The Stanford Daily'', 24 January 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2024.</ref><ref>[https://stanfordmag.org/contents/hmmm-where-did-he-go "Hmmm . . . Where Did He Go?"] ''Stanford Magazine'', April 2002. Retrieved 2024.</ref> including the logo of the ''Encyclopedia of Philosophy.''

The [[Thomas Welton Stanford]] Gallery, which was built in 1917, serves as a teaching resource for the Department of Art & Art History as well as an exhibition venue. In 2014, Stanford opened the Anderson Collection, a new museum focused on postwar American art and founded by the donation of 121 works by food service moguls Mary and [[Harry W. Anderson|Harry Anderson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Drohojowska-Philp |first=Hunter |title=Stanford's Anderson Collection museum to feature trove of couple's art |location=[[Atherton, CA]] |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 11, 2014 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807082042/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-hunk-moo-stanford-anderson-collection-20140713-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Whiting |first=Sam |title=Anderson Collection pieces lock in a home at Stanford |date=September 12, 2014 |publisher=SFGate |url=https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807090027/https://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Anderson-Collection-pieces-lock-in-a-home-at-5747113.php |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Teicholz |first=Tom |title=The Museum of Hunk, Moo & Putter: The Anderson Collection at Stanford will Rock You |date=December 28, 2018 |newspaper=[[Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |access-date=May 10, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807092922/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/12/28/the-museum-of-hunk-moo-putter-the-anderson-collection-at-stanford-will-rock-you/#415d93fb1408 |url-status=live }}</ref> There are outdoor art installations throughout the campus, primarily sculptures, but some murals as well. The Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Roble Hall features wood carvings and "[[totem pole]]s".

The Stanford music department sponsors many ensembles, including five choirs, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, [[Stanford Taiko]], and the Stanford Wind Ensemble. Extracurricular activities include theater groups such as Ram's Head Theatrical Society, the Stanford Improvisors,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Stanford Improvisors |url=http://stanfordimprovisors.com/ |access-date=March 11, 2022 |website=Stanford.edu |archive-date=March 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320045339/https://www.stanfordimprovisors.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Stanford Shakespeare Company, and the Stanford Savoyards, a group dedicated to performing the works of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. Stanford is also host to [[List of Stanford University a cappella groups|ten ''a cappella'' groups]], including the [[Stanford Mendicants|Mendicants]] (Stanford's first),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |title=About the Mendicants |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223025408/https://www.stanfordmendicants.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stanford Counterpoint|Counterpoint]] (the first all-female group on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |title=About Counterpoint |access-date=July 22, 2012 |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701024619/http://web.stanford.edu/group/Counterpoint/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Stanford Harmonics|the Harmonics]], the [[Stanford Fleet Street Singers]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fleetstreet.com/about |title=About Fleet Street |access-date=August 29, 2017 |archive-date=August 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830104314/https://www.fleetstreet.com/about |url-status=dead}} Because Fleet Street maintains Stanford songs as a regular part of its performing repertoire, the university used the group as ambassadors during the university's centennial celebration and commissioned an album, entitled ''Up Toward Mountains Higher'' (1999), of Stanford songs which were sent to alumni around the world.</ref> [[Talisman A Cappella|Talisman]], [[Stanford Everyday People|Everyday People]], [[Stanford Raagapella|and Raagapella]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raagapella.com/ |title=About Raagapella |access-date=August 25, 2012 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126074814/http://www.raagapella.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

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=== Reputation and rankings ===
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{{Infobox US university ranking
<!-- U.S. rankings -->| Forbes = 2
| THE_WSJ = 3
| USNWR_NU = 4
| Wamo_NU = 2
<!-- Global rankings -->| QS_W = 6
| THES_W = 6
| USNWR_W = 3
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Stanford is highly ranked by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=Best Colleges: Stanford University |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305 |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234026/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/stanford-university-1305 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Times Higher Education]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-07 |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/stanford-university |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> and ''[[QS World University Rankings]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stanford University |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/stanford-university |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Top Universities |language=en-US}}</ref> As noted in [[The Wall Street Journal]]'s 2024 rankings, "the usual players are almost always going to come out on top: The Princetons, the Stanfords, the Yales, the Harvards. They will jockey for those first few spots on whatever ranking you happen to be looking."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bleizeffer |first=Kristy |date=2023-09-08 |title=Ranking: Wall Street Journal's 2024 Best Colleges In America |url=https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/ranking-wall-street-journals-2024-best-colleges-in-america/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Poets&Quants for Undergrads |language=en-US |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908181948/https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/ranking-wall-street-journals-2024-best-colleges-in-america/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Standings in rankings ====
In 2022, ''[[Washington Monthly]]'' ranked Stanford at 1st position in their annual list of top universities in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/ |title=2022 National University Rankings |access-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-date=September 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917093850/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022-college-guide/national/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, Stanford University took 1st place on Reuters' list of the ''World's Most Innovative Universities'' for the fifth consecutive year.<ref>{{cite web |title=The World's Most Innovative Universities 2019 |url=https://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2019 |website=[[Reuters]] |access-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129071951/https://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]] has consistently been both the most selective business school in the world<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kowarski |first1=Ilana |last2=Claybourn |first2=Cole |date=2024-06-05 |title=15 Business Schools With Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/business-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]]}}</ref> and consistently ranked 1st in the list of best [[business school]]s year-over-year consecutively by various reputed studies including ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kessenides |first=Dimitra |date=2023-09-13 |title=These Are the Best Business Schools in the World |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |work=Bloomberg.com |language=en |archive-date=April 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240407022859/https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' for 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=2024 Best Business Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314003952/https://www.usnews.com/best%2Dgraduate%2Dschools/top%2Dbusiness%2Dschools/mba%2Drankings |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stanford Law School]] is also consistently been amongst the two most selective law schools in the world<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Sarah |date=2024-04-09 |title=16 Law Schools That Are Hardest to Get Into |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/law-schools-that-are-hardest-to-get-into |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607070754/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/law-schools-that-are-hardest-to-get-into |url-status=live }}</ref> and consistently ranked 1st in the list of best law schools year-over-year consecutively for 2024 in ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-01 |title=2024 Best Law Schools |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?_sort=my_rankings-asc |website=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=July 6, 2024 |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611161156/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/law-rankings?_sort=my_rankings-asc |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 2022 survey by ''[[The Princeton Review]]'', Stanford was ranked 1st among the top ten "dream colleges" of America, and was considered to be the ultimate "dream college" of both students and parents.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 27, 2022 |title=These are the country's 'dream' colleges, but price remains the top concern |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/27/these-are-the-countrys-top-dream-colleges.html |website=[[CNBC]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=2022 College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release-2022}}</ref> From polls of college applicants done by ''The Princeton Review'', every year from 2013 to 2020 the most commonly named "dream college" for students was Stanford; separately, parents, too, most frequently named Stanford their ultimate "dream college".<ref name="PRdream">{{cite news |title=College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |access-date=August 28, 2017 |publisher=Princeton Review |language=en |archive-date=October 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007224857/https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 17, 2020 |title=2020 College Hopes & Worries Press Release |url=https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Princeton Review |archive-date=October 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007224857/https://www.princetonreview.com/press/college-hopes-worries-press-release |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] (ARWU)'' ranked Stanford second in the world (after Harvard) most years from 2003 to 2020.<ref name="ARWU">{{cite web |title=Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022 |url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021 |access-date=March 30, 2022 |website=Shanghai Ranking |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815040132/https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Times Higher Education]]'' recognizes Stanford as one of the world's "six super brands" on its ''World Reputation Rankings'', along with [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Baty |first=Phil |date=January 1, 1990 |title=Birds? Planes? No, colossal 'super-brands': Top Six Universities |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2012/reputation-ranking/analysis/top-six-6-universities |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Times Higher Education |archive-date=August 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804225717/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2012/reputation-ranking/analysis/top-six-6-universities |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ross |first=Duncan |date=May 10, 2016 |title=World University Rankings blog: how the 'university superbrands' compare |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/world-university-rankings-blog-how-university-superbrands-compare |access-date=May 3, 2021 |work=Times Higher Education |archive-date=March 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324122624/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/world-university-rankings-blog-how-university-superbrands-compare |url-status=live }}</ref>