| 17 | 8 | Arts & Humanities | 8 | Natural Sciences |
| 3 | Engineering & IT | 3 | Social Sciences | |
| World Rankings | 6 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | ||
| 19 | 11 | Arts & Humanities | 7 | Natural Sciences |
| 3 | Engineering & IT | 5 | Social Sciences | |
| World Rankings | 6 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | ||
| 6 | ||||
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| Total Number of Applications | 25,299 | |
| Total number of applications your institution received in the last 12 months for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses | ||
Current Stanford faculty have won 17 Nobel prizes and four Pulitzer Prizes, among other honors. Stanford researchers have contributed critical developments, including the construction of a recmbinant DNA molecule containing DNA from two different species, DNA microarray technology, discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging, the invention of the klystron tube, the invention of the laser, the invention of Reduced Instruction Set Computer, the musical synthesizer, the discovery of REM sleep, global positioning systems, the Cyberknife and the fluorescence-activated cell sorter, among others.
Varies by graduate program.
Nearly 60 percent of graduate students at Stanford live in university housing.
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Varies by graduate program. Stanford awards a limited number of Stanford Graduate Fellowships, through which students receive full-time tuition and a generous stipend that allows them to pursue research projects that are not dependent on federal funding or on an assistantship.
Varies by graduate program.
Stanford does not offer an ESL or language training program for new undergraduate students. Thus, all students are expected to be fluent in written and spoken English prior to arriving on campus.
Stanford does not offer an ESL or language training program for new undergraduate students. Thus, all students are expected to be fluent in written and spoken English prior to arriving on campus.