Stanford University (Stanford University), full name Leland Stanford Junior University," abbreviated as "Stanford", is located in palo Alto, south of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, near the high-tech park Silicon Valley (Silicon Valley), is a world-famous private research university. Founded in 1885 and officially enrolled in 1891, Stanford Covers an area of about 33 square kilometers (8,180 acres), making it one of the largest universities in the United States.
1. Location
Stanford-Palo Alto, California
2. Nature
private university
3. Ranking
#6 in National Universities (tie)
#9 in Best Undergraduate Teaching (tie)
#1 in Best Colleges for Veterans
#6 in Most Innovative Schools (tie)
#7 in Best Value Schools
4. Male-female ratio
46：54
5. Tuition and living expenses
6. Curriculum system
Stanford's academic system is different from other universities. In the school rules, the year is divided into four quarters, and students are required to choose different classes for each paragraph. As a result, Stanford students take more courses than those at two-semester colleges, and the pressure is greater than that of other college students. Stanford students must complete compulsory courses in nine fields, including culture and thought, natural sciences, technology and applied sciences, literature and art, philosophy, social sciences, and religious thought. In addition to this, students must meet certain standards in writing and foreign languages
7. Strong discipline
Mathematics, Economics, Physics, Law, Chemistry, Sociology, Biology, Psychology, Computer Engineering, Political Science, Chemical Engineering, Finance, Clinical Medicine, Statistics
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1. Eat
On campus:
The school has 6 or 7 canteens, each with a theme, with Asian, Mexican, Indian. Asian-style canteens, sometimes with ramen noodles, sometimes with Vietnamese noodles. The taste is not particularly authentic, but it's fine. Other cafeterias will have Mexican or American cuisine. Relatively healthy, the choice is not particularly rich. Different canteens also open at different times, for example, sometimes breakfast is not open, then it will be open longer at noon, so that you can eat at any time after class. If you really don't want to eat in the cafeteria, you can go to the school center to buy Subway, Starbucks, Panda Express (an American Chinese restaurant). You can also drive to the surrounding area to eat Chinese food or call takeaway, milk tea, half an hour or so can arrive.
Off-campus restaurant recommendations:
Chinese Restaurant Fuen Garden Fey Restaurant:
This is an authentic Sichuan restaurant, a traditional restaurant in the Bay Area, with two ways to eat: a la carte cuisine and hot pot. Friends who like to eat spicy must come to taste it, of course, there are not spicy dishes to choose from, the taste is very good, and the domestic Sichuan cuisine can be comparable, and the portion size is very large, the price is moderate. Although the restaurant provides three meals a day, but mainly for dinner, breakfast will provide Xiaolong soup buns, Sichuan / Beijing tofu brain, Beijing sugar oil cake, salty / sweet rice balls and other special breakfast, the price is between 1.5 US dollars - 8.95 US dollars / part; lunch will provide a variety of meat and vegetarian stir-fry, the basic price is 8.5 US dollars - 9.5 US dollars / portion; dinner its dishes are relatively complete, dim sum, cold dishes, seafood, wood whiskers, fish and meat, soup, staple food any choice, fresh and delicious, basically can meet the needs of customers, If people don't want to eat a la carte and there are super special Chongqing spicy hot pot to choose from, students with light taste can choose the bottom of the clear soup pot, the price of the two pot bottoms is unified at 4.95 US dollars / serving (small) / 16.95 US dollars / part (large), for students who eat alone, there is also a personal package of 18.95 US dollars / portion, which is relatively affordable.
Recommended dishes: Sichuan hui pot meat, spicy pork belly, Dongpo elbow, mushu chicken roll, spicy large intestine noodles, Beijing sweet and sour fish fillets, etc. The restaurant is located about 2.2 miles northwest of Stanford University, about 6 minutes by car, and students can also take the ECR or 391 direct bus, which takes about 34 minutes.
Jubao Building Tai Pan
This is a well-known Hong Kong-style restaurant, providing lunch and dinner services, students who like Cantonese cuisine have a good taste, here in addition to delicious seafood and vegetables, there are super Great Hong Kong-style dim sum, steaming, frying, frying, boiling as you choose, everything is a boutique, such as: pea seedling dumplings (shaped like a sugar triangle, very chic), shrimp dumplings (transparent and flexible skin, intact), honeycomb taro horn (fried just right, crisp but not greasy). All dishes are prepared using high-quality authentic ingredients, carefully prepared by the chef, with authentic Cantonese flavors (slightly sweeter, more suitable for southerners), and the side dishes are exquisite and creative. Although the price is not affordable, the setting is reasonable.
Recommended dishes: shrimp dumplings, char siu buns, golden silk shrimp balls, Peking sliced duck, Taiwanese three-cup chicken, XO sauce soaked lamb slices, signature vegetarian fried brown rice, etc.
The restaurant is located about 1.4 miles northeast of Stanford University, about a 4-minute drive and a half-hour walk.
Another village in Hunan, Hunan Home
It is a family restaurant that has been in business for more than 30 years and is a one-story building. The restaurant does not have high-end decoration, but it has a clean and tidy environment, fast and efficient service and good food at a low price. Here we offer authentic Chinese cuisine, full of flavors, such as: a variety of stew pans, Fujian stir-fry, teppanyaki, fried snacks, etc., everything is available, the variety is very complete, there is definitely a one that meets your taste. The red braised beef is said to be particularly well cooked, juicy and cooked just right; Gogen Intestinal is a housekeeper's dish; fried rice and prawns have been voted one of the most popular restaurants in Los Altos. In addition, the restaurant offers a special lunch set (rice + egg rolls / salad + soup + dessert) every day at noon, and a variety of Taiwanese dim sum is served from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. When students take the school bus to san antonio shopping, they can stop by to taste it.
Recommended dishes: camphor tea duck, beef with orange sauce, seafood tofu open stove, Yangzhou fried rice, Hunan meat garlic spicy sauce, pork balls noodle soup, etc.
Recommended tastings: camphor tea duck, orange sauce beef, seafood tofu open stove, Yangzhou fried rice, Hunan meat garlic spicy sauce, pork balls noodle soup, etc.
Thai Restaurant - Lotus Thai Bistro
This is a very popular Thai restaurant with a small façade and dark colors. Operate a variety of exquisite Thai-style dishes, complete variety, fresh side dishes, unique taste (mainly light, the degree of spiciness can be chosen), the price is moderate (per capita consumption is generally between 11 US dollars and 15 US dollars). The curry food here, ordinary red, yellow and green curry ingredients can let the chef specially produce dozens of delicious dishes, such as: pumpkin curry chicken, pineapple curry duck, red curry grilled cod, yellow curry coconut milk grilled fish, curry puffs, yellow curry chicken buns, green curry tofu, etc., each of which can make customers praise, and the exclusive secret sauce here is also quite popular with customers, such as: mango salmon lacha, fresh shrimp pumpkin salad, curry chicken with peanut butter, etc. In addition, the restaurant has also launched a special lunch package and takeaway service.
2. Transportation
Nearest airport to the school: San Francisco International Airport
Stanford is in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, about an hour south of San Francisco by car or train. If you don't have a car, it's a bit less convenient to get around. To get to San Francisco without a car, you have to take the Caltrain. On campus, the main words are cars and skateboards. The city of Palo Alto is only ten minutes by bike. Almost every student on campus has their own bicycle, because the campus is relatively large, usually in class, they will ride bicycles, and walk for too long.
3. Accommodation
On campus
There are several types of dormitories, such as dormitories where all freshmen are freshmen, brothers and sisters, or some independent dormitories. There are also a series of dormitories called Row Houses, where you can cook your own meals. Others also have some more ordinary dormitories. The dormitories are in good condition, but there may be some differences between the dormitories. Overall, few people live off-campus because living and transportation costs are relatively higher.
1、Escondido Village
The Escondido Village on-campus dormitory, also known simply as EV, consists of five different types of dormitories: Studio, low-rise, mid-rise, and high-rise. The campus is made up of these 5 residence halls, so it's easy to guess that this is the largest residence hall on the Stanford campus. In addition to the large overall environment of the dormitory, in order to strengthen the communication between students, there are often some parties held here, which can also help new students integrate into the school environment faster. Its public facilities are also very complete, which is also one of the advantages of this dormitory area.
2、Escondido South
The residence hall between Rains, Studio One and graduate Community Center is Escondido South. Another feature of the residence hall is that it is small in size, but it definitely does not affect the living. Students who prefer to study quietly in the dormitory building can choose this place. The disadvantage is that the utility is shared with the EV.
3、Munger Graduate Residences
If you want to find a tall dormitory building in these dormitories, it's the Munger dormitory. Not only is it located in the heart of the campus, but it also features a very unique architectural style that is unique just outside the residence hall. The main room types in this residence are Studio, 1-bed room, 2-bed room and 4-bed room. Moreover, the school also equipped the dormitory building with high-end indoor facilities, so the rent is also relatively high in these dormitory buildings.
4、Lyman Graduate Residences Lyman
The dormitory building is located on the west side of the school, and the dormitory building is surrounded by a green lawn, and the overall environment is very good. Students who have come to the dormitory can see that the overall scale of the dormitory is not large, but the number of students that can accommodate it is also hundreds of people, compared with the small dormitories of other schools, the scale of the dormitory building is not small. Students who choose to stay here do not have to worry about the scale of this place, and its public facilities are very complete, there are laundry rooms, lounges, recreation rooms, piano rooms and other indoor and outdoor public facilities for students.
5、Schwab Residential Center
The most notable feature of the Schwab Residential Center residence hall is that the overall dormitory facilities are not only complete, but also of high quality. Therefore, the room rate here is correspondingly much higher than that of other dormitories. The second feature that distinguishes it from other dormitories is the duplex double rooms for the students, doctors, etc. of the school's business school.
6、Liliore Green Rains
Although Liliore Green Rains and Escondido South are in the same EV, the architecture of the 2 residence halls is completely different. The dormitory building is in the style of Spanish colonial construction, with a red roof, and the design of the windows of the dormitory is also circular according to the Spanish style. The room types are divided into two types: double and single rooms, and can accommodate nearly 800 students. Although the supporting facilities here are similar to EVs, evs cannot be compared with one thing, that is, the comprehensive facilities here are more complete and of higher quality.
Off-campus dormitories:
1、Carmel Apartments
The Carmel Apartments residence hall is not a traditional residence hall architectural style, it is a newly built hotel-style dormitory building. Therefore, the dormitory building adopts a modern avant-garde design, if you are not very fond of traditional dormitory buildings, you can come here to experience the avant-garde design style of the dormitory. Because the level of comprehensive living here is enough to reach the standard of five stars, it is natural to have a well-equipped facility. However, the disadvantages, like Arastradero West, are that they are not close to the school, and it takes students more than 20 minutes to ride.
2、Arastradero West
The residence hall is surrounded by a garden, and the dormitory building adopts a garden-style design style. Communal facilities such as swimming pool, gymnasium, laundry room, etc. are also necessary in this dormitory building. The room type of the dormitory building is mainly double rooms, and each room also has a balcony with a view, which is also one of the characteristics of the dormitory rooms. However, the disadvantage is that this dormitory building is farther away from the school than other dormitories. This dormitory building is mainly for students who want to live in but are not assigned to dormitories. The accommodation conditions here are still very good, and the rent cost is not high.
3、Hawthorne
The history of the dormitory building is very long, but the infrastructure is still complete, which can fully meet the daily needs of students. Although the overall dormitory conditions are not as good as the two dormitories of Arastradero West and Carmel Apartments, its advantage is also obvious, that is, it is close to the school, and the maximum number of students cycling is no more than 10 minutes.
4. Climate
Palo Alto, where Stanford University is located, has a typical Mediterranean climate, mainly affected by the California Cold Snap, with hot, dry summers and mildly rainy winters. Because of the unique climate here, the rain time is particularly small every year, and it is often sunny, so it is particularly suitable for various outdoor activities.
5. Surrounding environment
Stanford is right in Palo Alto, the center of Silicon Valley, where the big guys live, the best place in the country (yes, this is the count), although the campus does not have doors and railings, but this does not affect Stanford's proud safety!! Absolute personal safety!! It's just that there are a lot of bicycle wheels that steal!! Stanford University has a very complete security system. After nightfall, there is basically a police officer in every block, and there is a lamppost alarm every few tens of meters. Convenient school buses allow you to avoid walking at night. Of course, some students will choose to live in places that are not covered by school buses. Students can call the school's security office, and the school will send a police car to escort them home. The school is located in a suburb with a drug and gun crime rate of 0.2 per 1,000 people.
6. Entertainment and traditions
There are several exchanges between international students throughout the year, and the school has many clubs, such as Stanford in Government, which is mainly about policy and government. BASES is a business community. There are a number of societies for women's career development. The school has a dragon boat team, as well as a Chinese oratorio, and sometimes there are various performances, and the students have a very group atmosphere. The dormitory's Service Liaison attends a training session at the Haas Center for Public Service every week to find out what services it has and then introduces the dorm students to attend.
In 1951, Frederick Terman, dean of the Stanford School of Engineering, promoted the establishment of a campus industrial development zone, which set aside hundreds of acres of land for public enterprise leasing, and later more and more companies gradually expanded the scope of the campus to form today's Silicon Valley. Although many companies are not in the Stanford campus, their partnership with Stanford has long been a tradition, so as a Stanford ME graduate, employment will certainly not be too much of a problem.