Stanford University Overview

Stanford University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Stanford, California. Stanford is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Stanford University Known For?

• Stanford has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 5 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Stanford is 0%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Stanford.
• For the <nil> academic year, 99% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Stanford with a bachelor's degree make about $106,987 a year. That's 162% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Where Is Stanford University?

Contact details for Stanford are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	Stanford, CA 94305
Phone:	650-723-2300
Website:	www.stanford.edu

How Do I Get Into Stanford?

You can apply to Stanford online at: commonapp.org/

Admission Requirements for Stanford

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Recommended
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Stanford?

The acceptance rate at Stanford is 4%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 49% of accepted students are men and 51% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 4%, and the acceptance rate for women is 4%.

Average Test Scores

About 15% of students accepted to Stanford submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 720 and 770. Math scores were between 750 and 800.

Stanford received ACT scores from 11% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 35 and 36. Math scores were between 31 and 33. Composite scores were between 34 and 35.

Can I Afford Stanford University?

The overall average net price of Stanford is $48,172. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Stanford, approximately 5% of students took out student loans averaging $8,868 a year. That adds up to $35,472 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Stanford is 0.2%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Stanford University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are also 10,035 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 7,645 full-time undergraduates at Stanford, 49% are male and 51% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Stanford University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	1,917
Black or African American	547
Hispanic or Latino	1,339
White	2,139
International Students	818
Other Races/Ethnicities	885

Geographic Diversity

California students aren't the only ones who study at Stanford University. At this time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 127 countries are represented at Stanford. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and Canada.

Online Learning at Stanford University

In 2020-2021, 864 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Stanford has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 11th most popular in California for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

This is the #1,689 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Stanford regardless of major.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Pere Joan under License

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