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Bus stations near Stanford

  • On Campus Drive Across From Parking Lot L-22,16 min walk,
  • On Campus Drive @ Li Ka Shing Center,16 min walk,

Bus lines to Stanford

  • OCA,Oak Creek Apartments,
  • SE,Shopping Express,
  • SE,Shopping Express - Weekend,
  • 1050A,1050 Arastradero,
  • C LINE,On Clark Way @ VI at Palo Alto,
  • C LINE LIMITED AM/PM,Stock Farm Garage,
Questions & Answers

  • What are the closest stations to Stanford?

    The closest stations to Stanford are:

    • On Campus Drive Across From Parking Lot L-22 is 1329 yards away, 16 min walk.
    • On Campus Drive @ Li Ka Shing Center is 1355 yards away, 16 min walk.

  • Which bus lines stop near Stanford?

    These bus lines stop near Stanford: X, Y

  • Which train lines stop near Stanford?

    These train lines stop near Stanford: LIMITED A, LOCAL

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StanfordStanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The university was founded in 1885 by Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was a U.S. Senator and former Governor of California who made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. The university is also one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, becoming the first school to raise more than a billion dollars in a year.The university is organized around seven schools: three schools consisting of 40 academic departments at the undergraduate level as well as four professional schools that focus on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. All schools are on the same campus. Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pac-12 Conference. It has gained 126 NCAA team championships, and Stanford has won the NACDA Directors' Cup for 24 consecutive years, beginning in 1994–1995. In addition, Stanford students and alumni have won 270 Olympic medals including 139 gold medals.As of March 2020, 83 Nobel laureates, 28 Turing Award laureates, and 8 Fields Medalists have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty or staff. In addition, Stanford University is particularly noted for its entrepreneurship and is one of the most successful universities in attracting funding for start-ups. Stanford alumni have founded numerous companies, which combined produce more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue and have created 5.4 million jobs as of 2011, roughly equivalent to the 7th largest economy in the world (as of 2020). Stanford is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 30 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts. It is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress.
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