unitid 243744 · Stanford, CA · private nonprofit 4-year · suburb (large)
Stanford University
Private university in California, US
- founded
- 1885
- enrollment 2023
- 20,955
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- stanford.edu
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr. wikipedia rev 1364372408 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
4%
0th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,554
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
19%
undergrads on Pell grants
19th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
92%
finish within 150% time
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$87,833
98th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$13,807
after aid, aided students
17th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$124,080
after entry, Title IV students
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$12,000
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $-2,536 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
family income mix not reported
- Median family income
- $44,842
- First-generation students
- 30%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $65,910
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 10.3× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 493 | — | — |
| Computer Science. | 383 | $331,747 | — |
| Computer Science. | 293 | $247,797 | $10,399 |
| Civil Engineering. | 212 | $122,256 | — |
| Law. | 183 | $289,230 | — |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 148 | $161,655 | — |
| Human Biology. | 140 | $79,098 | $12,500 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | 138 | $230,373 | — |
| Education, General. | 120 | $88,795 | — |
| Economics. | 112 | $148,692 | $12,500 |
| Engineering-Related Fields. | 110 | $227,320 | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 94 | — | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 17,293 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (5,337) · university teacher (2,169) · computer scientist (598) · writer (581) · basketball player (540) · economist (516) · businessperson (455) · politician (410)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- John Steinbeck Literature 1962
- Gérard Debreu Economics 1983
- Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry 1986
- Henry Way Kendall Physics 1990
- Jerome Isaac Friedman Physics 1990
- Richard E. Taylor Physics 1990
- John Harsanyi Economics 1994
- Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2001
- Eric Allin Cornell Physics 2001
- Carl Wieman Physics 2001
- Theodor W. Hänsch Physics 2005
- Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005
- Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry 2006
- Andrew Fire Medicine 2006
- Alvin Eliot Roth Economics 2012
- Randy Schekman Medicine 2013
- Paul L. Modrich Chemistry 2015
- Bengt Holmström Economics 2016
- M. Stanley Whittingham Chemistry 2019
- Paul Milgrom Economics 2020
- Karl Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2022
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
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