San Francisco: Stanford University, The Alma Mater Of Excellence
San Francisco: Renowned Stranford University ( courtesy: www.bristol.k12.ct.us)
San Francisco is the most happening place, and heartthrob of many travelers. Everything things seems to be near perfection and conducive for the proper growth of an individual. For some it is a dream city while for other, to settle down here is a far fetched idea.
The city has never learned to compromise whether it is preserving the relics, nature or growing in terms of technology. The city is filled with talents and capability to harness it in right way.
The graph of educated people in San Francisco is quite high with good percentage of people having graduate degree and quite a number of people with their education and training beyond high school.
People with diverse interest find proper scope to develop, nurture and specialize it. There are few but top class universities that have success story since ages. They have produced some of the best brainy characters and highly intellectual and charismatic personalities.
The most important is the courses offered and the wide scope of learning; the students get from these universities. When we talk about the education in San Francisco, it is well judged by the popularity of its universities.
The name Stanford University may not be new to many, with its international repute of being the top ranked graduate school in the country and the honor of producing 18 noble laureates and several founder members of various popular technology related companies- Sun Microsystems, Google and many more.
It would not be an exaggeration to mention few names of the alumni of Stanford University who have excelled in their
San Francisco: Chelsea Clinton And Fellow Members Of 2001 in 110th Graduation Commencement Ceremony (courtesy: www.pro.corbis.com)
respective fields and brought laurels to their university. Astronaut Sally Ride, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, President Herbert Hoover, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor football player John Elway and golfer Tiger Woods and Tom Watson.
Came into existence in the year 1885, the University progressed gradually with number of students and courses increasing simultaneously. The National Research Council rates this University among the best while U.S News and World Report ranked it fourth among the national universities.
Stanford has wide variety of courses to offer for graduate and undergraduate degree, within the close proximity of Silicon Valley, it makes business management and engineering as highly competitive courses and students really have to try hard to enroll themselves for the same.
In addition to these two, students can pursue their studies for graduate and undergraduate degrees in Earth Science and Humanities and Science. The other four graduate courses include business, education, Law and Medicine and other prospective courses.
Every year new chapter of success is added in the growth history of Stanford University. This is all due to the sole intention of every faculty member and respective dean of the schools to strive for the best. Students get their lessons from the best teachers and researchers in their field.
To talk about more on universities, this is not the only one which highlights the educational growth of the city. There are few more whose invaluable contribution as torch bearers have definitely yielded fruits. Like University of California San Francisco, San Francisco State University and University of San Francisco.